Cereal in Bottle

[crabcake]

Originally Posted by MMDad

Why would you take direction from someone who is off their meds?

I'd like to know the answer to this question as well.

Money can be replaced; walls can be rebuilt; cars can be repaired. A child cannot. If you don't trust your son to stay the night under your roof, why would you trust him with what I imagine would be one of your most precious gifts -- a grandchild? In your (Suz') situation, why wouldn't you first pick up the phone and call the mother -- regardless of how you feel about her? Hell, it'd probably earn you some points in her book as well as some respect to ASK her instead of just assume she doesn't know what she's talking about because she's younger.

[chemommy25]

Originally Posted by crabcake

I'd like to know the answer to this question as well.

Money can be replaced; walls can be rebuilt; cars can be repaired. A child cannot. If you don't trust your son to stay the night under your roof, why would you trust him with what I imagine would be one of your most precious gifts -- a grandchild? In your (Suz') situation, why wouldn't you first pick up the phone and call the mother -- regardless of how you feel about her? Hell, it'd probably earn you some points in her book as well as some respect to ASK her instead of just assume she doesn't know what she's talking about because she's younger.

thank you. that is all i was trying to say. I only said to do what the doctor told me to do. i dont really care what everyone else did with thier children. I just think listining to the doctor is a good choice. (because there are so many different opinions)
and to everyone i never said i didnt want the baby to have cereal i just didnt want him to have it at 3 months old because he had very sever bowel problems and giving him cereal at that yound of an age would stop him up. Which it did end up doing for over 2 days. the poor child was in very bad pain.
Now i would appreciate it if everyone would back off a little, nobody knew the whole story.
The result of the baby having the cereal, was pain. 2 months later he started eating it and he was fine.

[chemommy25]

Originally Posted by kris31280

I haven't even gotten to the end of this thread yet, so maybe someone else picked up on it...

I have 4 letters for you... STFU. Pure and simple. STFU.

Putting cereal in bottles is too "old school"? Did your mom put cereal in your bottle? My grandmother did in my mother's bottle, and my mother did in my bottle... and last I checked we all turned out to be just fine...

You're only 20 years old and you're trying to give other people parenting advice, and knocking the parental advice of those who have had kids before you? WTF is wrong with you?

Man, after I had my son my mother, grandmother, and friends who had babies became invaluable with the advice and support they lent... do you think every great parent was born that way? There's a reason the saying is "It takes a village to raise a child"...

Maybe i should rephrase what said. The doctors said that it wasnt safe to put cereal in bottles anymore. she told me to wait till about 5 months and feed them with a spoon. so when someone asked how old they should be to eat cereal i just said what my doctor told me. I figure i would give advice not straight from my mouth but from a doctors. Nobody has to listen to advice that they don't want to listen to. But, i would rather listen to a doctor. Im not saying i know everything, i actually don't know much. i am a young first time mom. i figure the advice was useful. but all babies are different, i was just saying what i did. sorry to say old school, i didnt mean it in that way, i just meant the old way of doing it may not be as safe as just feeding the baby with a spoon. Just because im young doesnt mean im completly clueless though. and doesnt give the right for anybody to bash me and call me names, and tell me to STFU.

[sockgirl77 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by chemommy25

Maybe i should rephrase what said. The doctors said that it wasnt safe to put cereal in bottles anymore. she told me to wait till about 5 months and feed them with a spoon. so when someone asked how old they should be to eat cereal i just said what my doctor told me. I figure i would give advice not straight from my mouth but from a doctors. Nobody has to listen to advice that they don't want to listen to. But, i would rather listen to a doctor. Im not saying i know everything, i actually don't know much. i am a young first time mom. i figure the advice was useful. but all babies are different, i was just saying what i did. sorry to say old school, i didnt mean it in that way, i just meant the old way of doing it may not be as safe as just feeding the baby with a spoon. Just because im young doesnt mean im completly clueless though. and doesnt give the right for anybody to bash me and call me names, and tell me to STFU.

Just curious, who is your pediatrician?

[Suz (Premo)]

Originally Posted by crabcake

I'd like to know the answer to this question as well.

Money can be replaced; walls can be rebuilt; cars can be repaired. A child cannot. If you don't trust your son to stay the night under your roof, why would you trust him with what I imagine would be one of your most precious gifts -- a grandchild? In your (Suz') situation, why wouldn't you first pick up the phone and call the mother -- regardless of how you feel about her? Hell, it'd probably earn you some points in her book as well as some respect to ASK her instead of just assume she doesn't know what she's talking about because she's younger.

"why would you trust him with what I imagine would be one of your most precious gifts -- a grandchild?" That question should be asked of the mother....BUT as HIS mother, he was the full time care giver at the time. And a damn good one I have to say. I saw that baby drink three 8 oz bottles in a 2.5 hour period of time. HE WAS HUNGRY. If the father (frustrated by that point) said feed him cereal, I was going to feed him cereal. If Richard didn't need her permission, then I certainly didn't feel I needed it. Che also had juice and DID have a BM before he left my home.

Originally Posted by chemommy25

thank you. that is all i was trying to say. I only said to do what the doctor told me to do. i dont really care what everyone else did with thier children. I just think listining to the doctor is a good choice. (because there are so many different opinions)
and to everyone i never said i didnt want the baby to have cereal i just didnt want him to have it at 3 months old because he had very sever bowel problems and giving him cereal at that yound of an age would stop him up. Which it did end up doing for over 2 days. the poor child was in very bad pain.
Now i would appreciate it if everyone would back off a little, nobody knew the whole story.
The result of the baby having the cereal, was pain. 2 months later he started eating it and he was fine.

And they still don't.

[chemommy25]

Originally Posted by sockgirl77

Just curious, who is your pediatrician?

Silpasuvan in calvert county,
pediatric medicine and neonatology

[kris31280 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by chemommy25

Maybe i should rephrase what said. The doctors said that it wasnt safe to put cereal in bottles anymore. she told me to wait till about 5 months and feed them with a spoon. so when someone asked how old they should be to eat cereal i just said what my doctor told me. I figure i would give advice not straight from my mouth but from a doctors. Nobody has to listen to advice that they don't want to listen to. But, i would rather listen to a doctor. Im not saying i know everything, i actually don't know much. i am a young first time mom. i figure the advice was useful. but all babies are different, i was just saying what i did. sorry to say old school, i didnt mean it in that way, i just meant the old way of doing it may not be as safe as just feeding the baby with a spoon. Just because im young doesnt mean im completly clueless though. and doesnt give the right for anybody to bash me and call me names, and tell me to STFU.

When you, at the age of 20 with a what, 5 month old baby, sit there and bash all the other advice you've received from all the other forum mothers in here... it gives me full reason to tell you to STFU.

I was 25 when I had my son... I didn't know everything then and I still don't know everything now... I'll never know EVERYTHING about raising my son, I'll only know what I've tried and what has worked for me.

I can also tell you that if I listened solely to what the doctor's told me about my son and how to keep him healthy, he'd not be as healthy as he is today.

My son has had difficulty with his bowel movements the entire 2 1/2 years of his life. Putting him on cereal too early (he was on it at 2 months, I'd mix cereal with formula and a fruit baby food and give him a feeder bottle, which he loved) didn't make him gain tons of weight and it didn't make his bowels any more or less difficult... what it did do was limit the amount of spitting up he did. They told me to try dark karo syrup, and it kind of worked... but not enough. They told to use miralax, and it kind of worked, but not enough. I heard from another mom to try using Good Start as his formula instead of Enfamil, and it was a little better. In the end, what has finally worked was something I tried myself... soy milk.

Not that everyone wanted to hear about my son's bowels... but the point is that the doctor's don't know everything... women have been having babies for thousands of years without the benefit of a doctor telling them what to do every step of the way... the only thing I was saying was that you had absolutely no right to insult every other mother on this board simply because you have a bone to pick with your future MIL.

And to agree with everyone else... keep your personal family drama off the board... that's what PMs are for... it's tasteless and tacky to do it in public.

[Suz (Premo)]

And Crabcake --- Your a smart lady. Answer me this: Did NP have to run every decision she made regarding your daughter by you first?

I don't think so.

[sockgirl77 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Suz

And Crabcake --- Your a smart lady. Answer me this: Did NP have to run every decision she made regarding your daughter by you first?

I don't think so.

I'm taking your side in this thread because I've heard enough about this twerp. But, in all fairness, my mother runs everything by me first. She also sees us enough that she knows how I like things. She wouldn't dare go against my wishes. I am their mother and that supercedes all. Now, my ex's mom is another story. She'll sugar my son all up and he'll stay up all night for her. But, other than that, she knows my rules.

[StrawberryGal]

[quote=kris31280;2851744]When you, at the age of 20 with a what, 5 month old baby, sit there and bash all the other advice you've received from all the other forum mothers in here... it gives me full reason to tell you to STFU.

I was 25 when I had my son... I didn't know everything then and I still don't know everything now... I'll never know EVERYTHING about raising my son, I'll only know what I've tried and what has worked for me.

I can also tell you that if I listened solely to what the doctor's told me about my son and how to keep him healthy, he'd not be as healthy as he is today.

My son has had difficulty with his bowel movements the entire 2 1/2 years of his life. Putting him on cereal too early (he was on it at 2 months, I'd mix cereal with formula and a fruit baby food and give him a feeder bottle, which he loved) didn't make him gain tons of weight and it didn't make his bowels any more or less difficult... what it did do was limit the amount of spitting up he did. They told me to try dark karo syrup, and it kind of worked... but not enough. They told to use miralax, and it kind of worked, but not enough. I heard from another mom to try using Good Start as his formula instead of Enfamil, and it was a little better. In the end, what has finally worked was something I tried myself... soy milk.

Not that everyone wanted to hear about my son's bowels... but the point is that the doctor's don't know everything... women have been having babies for thousands of years without the benefit of a doctor telling them what to do every step of the way... the only thing I was saying was that you had absolutely no right to insult every other mother on this board simply because you have a bone to pick with your future MIL.

And to agree with everyone else... keep your personal family drama off the board... that's what PMs are for... it's tasteless and tacky to do it in public.[quote]

AGREED! However, some of the PM have been taken out into the , which is very uncalled for and immature.