Cereal in Bottle

[cattitude]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

Huh? Well is ain't a liquid hon.

 

[vraiblonde]

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]

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!

 

[vraiblonde]

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]

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]

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]

...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.

 

[wkndbeacher]

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]

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]

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]

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

@ about 4 weeks.