Baby Rice Cereal With Breastmilk

To start the introduction process mix 1 to 2 tablespoons of iron fortified rice.

Baby rice cereal with breastmilk.

Generally speaking do not introduce solid foods until your baby is at least four months old unless your pediatrician says otherwise. After adding the rice cereal shake the bottle well. Mix 1 tablespoon of a single grain iron fortified baby cereal with 4 tablespoons 60 milliliters of breast milk or formula. In these cases rice cereal is often added to thicken formula or breast milk and is drunk through a bottle with a widened hole in the nipple.

If you are mixing oatmeal cereal in formula. Supplementing with baby bottles. If you mix it too early the enzymes in the breast milk will break down the oatmeal making it ineffective. When your infant is between four and six months old your pediatrician will give you clearance to begin feeding him rice cereal mixed with breast milk or formula.

Basically rice cereal has no nutritional value it is empty calories. Use 1 teaspoons of dry infant cereal rice barley oatmeal mixed. Do not use infant cereal in breast milk. Mix 1 teaspoon of the rice cereal with 4 to 5 teaspoons of breast milk or formula twice a day.

The cereal should be very thin and soupy just thick enough to spoon up from the bowl. If you are mixing oatmeal cereal in pumped breast milk. If you have questions talk to your child s doctor. Breast milk breaks down the cereal and it does not remain thickened.

It is most effective if done no more than 20 to 30 minutes before your infant. So it averts binding of the mbm with rice cereal. 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. Cereal to thicken liquids.

You could also cut a small x over the hole in the nipple with a pair of sterilized scissors. Don t serve it from a bottle. Start by serving one or two teaspoons. Check to see if the nipple size is appropriate.

Use measuring spoons to figure amounts. In general it is recommended that breastfed babies wait until closer until 6 months to maximize the benefits of breastmilk. It is best to do it right before your infant will feed. Since formula or breast milk with rice cereal is thicker you might need to use a nipple with a larger hole so your infant can feed more easily.

Some people do choose to introduce rice cereal made with breast milk at 4 months fed by spoon. 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. Amylase is the main polysaccharide digesting enzyme in mbm and it digests starch. Do not use regular kitchen spoons.