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baby feeding schedule?
I just don't remember....
we gave Samantha rice cereal yesterday and sent one serving to daycare today and told them to feed her after a bottle - we don't care which one.
when do you up it to 2x a day, or 3x?
is a week of rice ok and then a week of oatmeal, and then veggies and fruits...a few days each?
did you mix the veg/fruit with the cereals or by itself or one after the other?
i can't believe that i do not remember what we did!
Re: baby feeding schedule?
Hmmm if I remember we started rice cereal at 4 months. I did that once a day for a month. They I moved onto oatmeal for a month. Started veggies at 6 months and then fruits once we made it through all the veggies.
I offered everything in the morning once a day. Once we completed that he was old enough for meats (7ish months). Then he would have oatmeal and a fruit for breakfast (after formula) and then a veggie and meat or veggie and cereal for dinner.
A didnt like the oatmeal/rice mixed with water. I mixed it with formula. If I got lazy I would mix a lil fruit/veg with it. Eventually i did just water!
GL that's such a funs stage!
We tried at 4 months and she hated it so we didn't try again til a little over 5. We started with just rice cereal for a few weeks, then oatmeal, I could never find barely so I went right to mixed grain.
Our pedi told us we should start at once a day and then we would just "know" when to increase to two then three times/day. She has been on two for a long time but we are thinking of upping to three soon. I may be behind on this but she is definitely getting all that she needs. Our pedi also suggested that we try anything we wanted...no particular order (except dairy had to wait due to her allergy) and that we had to wait 3 days in b/w to see if allergic. Every pedi is different....my friend said that her pedi told her to go by color...my pedi said "do what you want". I alternated fruits and veggies and then later intro'd chicken, turkey, etc.
We fed her rice cereal sporatically at 4 months, didnt really do it daily until 5 months. Didnt start veggies until 6 months and fruit after the veggies, like Niko said.
Looking back, I would have skipped rice cereal completely and just did oatmeal. Its less constipating. I think you are better off only doing it 1-2x a day, its just being used a filler and the breast milk or formula is the real source of nutrition.
FWIW, she still gets either oatmeal or whole wheat cereal with veggies mixed in - its one of the few ways I can get veggies snuck in her food.