Cereal & babies  

Always, alwaysstart with rice cereal because its the easiest to digest, and start with a tablespoon of dried cereal mixed with milk, either breast or formula and very thin, about the consistency of cream. Babies don't know how to eat, so the first few weeks will be very messy, with more getting on baby than in, and often some on you as well. Try to make ita pleasant time with lots of laughs, smiles and encouragement. It won't seem like more than days until your baby graduates to table food and you never getto eat anything on your plate without first giving baby some.

i started giving my baby 2 spoon fulls of cereal in his bottle with 4oz of formula when he was 2 months old. i of course used a baby spoon. he is now 4 months old and eats baby food and has 8oz with 5 spoonfulls of cereal. i use the oatmeal cereal, and he likes it alot! i am going to try a different kind with banana flavor cause he loves his banana baby food!

I think Nora was about 4 1/2 months old and she got some rice cereal (only because it was cheapest). She didn't have a problem with it but we only gave it to her a few times and then just skipped to baby food. We never even did cereal with Brenna. She went right to fruits and veggies because I found most babies don't like the cereal.

Owen got his in his bottle from about 3 weeks until he was about 4 months old for reflux. The only way he would eat it off the spoon was mixed with formula or juice and a whole far of bananas. If you didn't make it that way he wouldn't eat it so when Brenna was a baby we just skipped that stage.

I started with rice cereal. It was the natural progression for us b/c both of my kids had reflux and had to have cereal in their bottles. I started cereal in a bowl at 4 months with both of them. My first kid did really well with it. My 2nd child wasn't ready yet so he kept sticking out his tongue. It took him a few weeks to ge the hang of it.

gosh, it's been a while -- I think it must have been at least 3 months before I started giving cereals. With my 1st child I followed the Dr's recommendations and fed only baby foods. With my 2nd I sort of winged it and fed all blender pureed foods of what we ate for dinner --

no never done...

Around 4 months. I think we bought a bigger nipple for the bottle and tried it like that. There was way more formula in the bottle than rice cereal. As they got used to that, I made it slightly thicker until I could use a spoon.

They both did alright but I think it was because I moved so slowly with it.

If I remember correctly it was about 2 or 3 months old , It had a lot to do with the weight of your baby too , but that was over 40 years ago so I am sure things will be done a lot diffent now , xx

I started giving my daughter cereal at about 6 months. She started with the rice cereal and i only gave her about a tablespoon. she was a preemie and really tiny so she wasn't much of a big eater.

if i remember correctly, my 2 started rice cereal at about 5mths of age. It was a messy affair.......but they eventually got the hang of it