Cereal in Bottle

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by poster

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

That, I understood: water fills them up, then they won't drink their food and get the nutrients they need.

[cattitude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by poster

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!

And 25-30 years ago when I was having my kids, you were SUPPOSED to give the babies water...fixed it just like you did the formula bottles...STERILIZED them. :gasp:

[poster]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

That, I understood: water fills them up, then they won't drink their food and get the nutrients they need.

I understood that part but when you have a good eater and you start on juices (that are full of sugar) I always thought water would be better for at least once a day.

[vegmom]

Originally Posted by poster

...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!

Actually, the La Leche folks tell you that too. The point is to get plenty of formula or breast milk into the young'un because they need the nutrients from it. Rule of thumb I was told was don't give solids until the baby is taking 40 oz of formula a day, then start with rice cereal.

The food allergy thing, well, you just don't feed certain things to babies under a certain age because their systems aren't mature enough to handle them yet (wheat before 1, nuts before 2, etc). I developed food allergies as an adult and they are a major PITA.

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.

That way when they get older their not picky eaters. Its just expensive when we go to Outback, because my two girls want the same steak that daddy gets

[CobraKai]

Any tricks to getting them to take a bottle with cereal in it? My 9 month old seems to notice the difference immediately and doesn't want that bottle anymore (though he eats baby foods all the time via spoon). Is it just trial and error with the cereal-to-formula ratio (theory that maybe it's too thick)?

[Dymphna]

Never. If they are old enough for cereal, they are old enough to learn to eat from a spoon. If they aren't old enough for the spoon, they aren't old enough for cereal...about 4 -5 months.

[Lilypad]

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.

What if a parent isn't experienced and they don't have their mama and their grandmama's advise to fall back on?
Vrai-I think you MIGHT agree some things done and given to infants/young children weren't such a good idea...sugar tit dipped in whiskey, ipecac syrup, etc.
You seem to be "relatively" closed minded for such a young gal.

[Cowgirl]

Originally Posted by Suz'

future dil say's no to it, but if he's in MY care...... the box of rice cereal is in the pantry. 3 mths old and he's up to 7 oz bottles...... the boy is hungrey!! Sucking on his fingers or hand.....after a bottle...... (and happy!)

So, you're saying you're going ingoring the wishes of the child's mother when you babysit him?

[mommarock]

Originally Posted by jwwb2000

Never added cereal to their bottles. I just dealt with the messiness of feeding them the cereal from a spoon.

@ about 4 weeks.