Cereal in Bottle

[cattitude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by BlackSheep

3 weeks old when you fed him cereal? Was this something your Peds recommended or something your mama did, and her mama too?
I recently went on an emergency call for a 4 wk old who had aspirated cereal-family nearly lost the baby to pneumonia.
I was under the impression waiting until a baby was at least 4+ mos to ingest cereal was the minimum.

So a baby can't aspirate forumula or breast milk and have the same thing happen?

[Chasey_Lane]

I started my daughter on cereal at 2 months and jar food around 4 months. No allergies and she's not overweight.

[BlackSheep]

Originally Posted by cattitude

So a baby can't aspirate forumula or breast milk and have the same thing happen?

Sure they can, just like an adult can aspirate liquids/food BUT babies are not designed to accept solids at a very age. Thickened feeds have been associated with increased coughing after feedings, and may also decrease gastric emptying time and increase reflux episodes and aspiration. Plus, cereal in a bottle can lead to allergies, obesity, diabetes, Crohn's Disease, and a myriad of other health problems. Whether a person believes it or not

[itsbob (Premo)]

Nicholas was eating bottles of A-1 sauce at 2 months.. and then we gave him steak (rare) to dip in it at 3 months.

Now at 2, we have him go out and kill his own, and just drag it under his playground to eat it.

[cattitude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by BlackSheep

Sure they can, just like an adult can aspirate liquids/food BUT babies are not designed to accept solids at a very age. Thickened feeds have been associated with increased coughing after feedings, and may also decrease gastric emptying time and increase reflux episodes and aspiration. Plus, cereal in a bottle can lead to allergies, obesity, diabetes, Crohn's Disease, and a myriad of other health problems. Whether a person believes it or not

I don't think cereal or "baby food" is really a solid.

[BlackSheep]

Originally Posted by itsbob

Nicholas was eating bottles of A-1 sauce at 2 months.. and then we gave him steak (rare) to dip in it at 3 months.

Now at 2, we have him go out and kill his own, and just drag it under his playground to eat it.

Deja Vu

[BlackSheep]

Originally Posted by cattitude

I don't think cereal or "baby food" is really a solid.

Huh? Well is ain't a liquid hon.

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by BlackSheep

Thickened feeds have been associated with increased coughing after feedings, and may also decrease gastric emptying time and increase reflux episodes and aspiration. Plus, cereal in a bottle can lead to allergies, obesity, diabetes, Crohn's Disease, and a myriad of other health problems.

Experienced parents know this is overblown bull####, brought to us by the same people who freaked about anthrax, bird flu and shark attacks.

Either that or the vast majority of us are lucky our children survived the killer rice cereal.

[workin hard]

I think I did rice cereal at 2 months. But that's also when I start putting him on more of a schedule so I could get him to sleep longer at night. So I'm not sure which one helped out. LOL!

[poster]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

Experienced parents know this is overblown bull####, brought to us by the same people who freaked about anthrax, bird flu and shark attacks.

Either that or the vast majority of us are lucky our children survived the killer rice cereal.

...or maybe the makers of Similac, Enfamil, Carnation, etc. - I'm sure they do their own "testing" and contribute to those findings.

I could never understand why my doctor said babies get enough water from formula, don't give it to'em in a bottle. Blew my mind - I did it anyway!