Baby Cereal With Breastmilk Or Water

Updated on september 12 2007 j m.

Baby cereal with breastmilk or water.

I am looking for advice on mixing the baby cereal with water. Stir in liquid breastmilk or infant formula to desired consistency. Instead help your baby sit upright and offer the cereal with a small spoon once or twice a day after a bottle or breast feeding. If your baby is colicky and fussy at night this could be related to digestion or latent food allergies lulling them to sleep with rice baby cereal is only putting a band aid on the issue.

Don t serve it from a bottle. If you start with cereal you can mix it with formula breast milk or water. Baby s first cereal feeding mix 1 tbsp. Some people mix rice cereal with fruit juice too.

Mixing baby cereal with breastmilk vs. I have been mixing the cereal with breastmilk for 2 3 weeks now. Supplementing with baby bottles. Asks from saint joseph mn on september 11 2007 15 answers.

And if you re breastfeeding and safely co sleeping with your baby nighttime feedings don t require you to get up and lose a lot of sleep soothing a soothe a crying baby. Infant cereal does not mix well with breast milk. We don t recommend adding breast milk or infant formula to gerber add water cereals as they already contain specially adapted milk and 14 essential nutrients. If you ve accidentally prepared the add water cereal with breast milk or infant formula it won t harm the baby if you feed them with it on occasion.

Mix 1 tablespoon of a single grain iron fortified baby cereal with 4 tablespoons 60 milliliters of breast milk or formula. Mix with milk water or gerber juice for children over one year of age. If you would like to keep breast feeding or using expressed milk in a bottle talk to your child s doctor. Easy to mix directions pour or spoon desired amount of cereal in bowl.

Of breastmilk or infant formula. Then pour 4 5 tablespoons of water breast milk or baby formula in the bowl and stir everything together so it s thoroughly combined. Start by serving one or two teaspoons. The enzymes in breast milk break down the cereal.

To start the introduction process mix 1 to 2 tablespoons of iron fortified rice cereal with 4 to 6 tablespoons of formula breast milk or water. To mix baby cereal start by putting about 1 tablespoon of the cereal in a bowl.