just wondering because my previuos kids all the doctor said was they could start and 4 months old cereal and the newest edition they say 6 months old?

My doctor said 6 months as well, but we started with a little cereal at around 3 months.

Lisa

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I am pretty sure I started cereal with all mine at 3 months I cant even imagine waiting tell 6months you would have a pretty hungry baby!! You can mix the cereal with formula to make it real runny it will still feel the baby up. However I never did mix it in the bottel some people I know did that but I always did the spoon & a bowl & by 3-4 months my kids were ready for that.

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Well I started early my oldest was 10lbs 6 oz when he was born and nursing just wasn't doing it so I started him on rice cereal at 6 weeks. He slept through the night.

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I have a 4 month old, yep last appointment I got a handout saying 6 months to start on food. With my son, my mother got me putting rice cereal in his bottle around 2 months (!!!) and I can't remember when I started feeding him food but it was very messy, he still had that tongue thrust reflex so it must have been pretty early... my first daughter got food when she was pretty much grabbing it off my plate, she was closer to a year old, one of her first foods was corn on the cob. This baby has had a combination of both, mostly breastfed but sometimes gets a bottle, and has had tastes of a few things, even a little rice cereal... yesterday she got to taste juice from the blueberries I ate. She had that wide-eyed "yum gimme more" look but I think I'm going to wait another month or two before giving her actual meals.

all my kids started early. MY youngest especially because she had a big interest in food. She started cereal at 3 months and then ate veggies and fruits at 4 months and was on solid no baby food by 6 months old. She would eat spagetti, mac and cheese, grilled cheese you name it she ate it. She loves everything especially fruit.

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With my last dd I started her on rice cereal at 6 months. Then introduced 1 new fruit or veggie ever 3 days. With my first two I probably started them on rice cereal at 4 months.

I breast feed solely for the first six months of each of our three DD's lifes, their ages are now from 10 yo to 6 yo so its been awhile since I had a baby but, we started at six months on rice cereal. Then we SLOWLY introduced veggies first and then fruits. It worked for usand our kids didn't have any tummy troubles....so it was good for them!!!

When my oldest (he is 14 now) was a baby I listened to the dr and I think he got cereal at 3 months but at 6 months I started giving him maybe a teaspoon of soft vanilla ice cream almost every night (he made the cutest face and always got excited when we pulled into the parking lot of the ice cream shop, of course I didnt tell the dr i was doing that LOL ) With my oldest daughter (she is 12) she was 2 weeks and I would put a baby spoon or 2 of cereal in her morning and bedtime bottle and with my youngest (she is 5) I did the same thing as I did with my oldest DD

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all of my kids I waited to 6 months. One did not sleep all night for the first year but still did not start cearel till 6 months. My kids are soooo healthy. Never miss school. But I say what ever works for the individual.

When my kids were babies it was typical to begin cereal at 6 weeks.
When my oldest ds was 2 weeks old he had diarea. THe dr. said to give him 2 T. of rice cereal mixed with formula. I fed that to him with a spoon and it wasn't long until he was waiting for the next bite.
When second ds was a baby, thinking about the age I fed the first, I started him on rice cereal at 2 weeks also.
As each one came along (there are 6) they each ate cereal at 2 weeks or earlier. The youngest ds ate his first cereal the day after he came home from the hospital.
After they went through the series of cereal they went on to yellow vegetables, then green. By the time they were 3 months old they had had everything that came in a baby food jar with the exception of meat and none of them would eat it. They even had baby food egg yolks mixed in their cereal by that time.

And now my grandkids are eating on the same schedule as my kids did.


I know todays medical society would jump right straight up and down if they heard this, BUT, I will guareentee you, they won't be able to show you a baby that is any healthier then they all have been.

I'm a FIRM believer of feeding babies instead of stuffing them with all that fattening milk and making them wait until they are old enough to walk before they get their first food.
Feeding them makes for a nice healthy, strong baby instead of being puggy fat. And they sleep all night almost from the start.

JMHO

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cereal at 9 days . . my son was not getting enough milk at first and he was/is a big boy. That only lasted a couple days then he was 5 1/2 - 6 months before he got food again.

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I just started Naysa on solids at 6 months. They pretty much said start w/cereal, then move on to veggies and fruits. Yellow/orange veggies first then others than fruits is what we did. They say now that they don't want you to replace any of the formula feedings with food, just to ADD the food to the diet. We waited three days before each new food.

With Eryn, her doctors (who we are no longer with) had me give her cereal before she was two weeks old since she wasn't sleeping and because she was so big at birth (9 pounds 5 ounces, 3 weeks early). Well, it didn't work. Didn't make her sleep, just gave her a belly ache. They then had us give her dark karo syrup in her bottle every night later on because she had trouble pooping. I transferred her to Naysa's doctors and when I told them how early we were told to feed Eryn (and about the karo syrup), they about had a fit.

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We started my son on cereal at 4 months. They recommended that we not give fruits or vegetables until six months, but we ended up starting to give him fruit almost right away because he would get so constipated if we didn't! We started with prunes, and to this day he still loves them We started vegetables at 6 months. Now at 9 months he is just starting to eat real food. He's tried what we eat at meals, but I've sort of backed off because he seems to get really gassy! I don't think he has all of the enzymes yet that he needs to digest dairy, etc . . .

The recommendations for starting cereal are:

Able to sit up in a high chair
No longer has the tongue thrust reflex
Has doubled his birth weight
No history of family food allergies

I had a really large DD at birth she was 10 lbs 5 oz I was not heavy at all, but family on both sides tend to have large babies. I was almost two weeks over due as well. I am just curious what doctors are suggesting that the babies need something additional to breast milk. My doc said as long as she was gaining (or at least maintaining) she was fine. She was also sleeping through the night from day one. But, let's face it that child was ready to walk when she came out of there.

Just wonderingwhy something else so early was needed, since it never happened to us I just didn't know if there were other circumstances that went with it.

I fed my son the same way and he turned out healthy!