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EAT => Feeding Solid Food => Topic started by: BabyBsMommy on May 12, 2006, 00:39:42 am
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Just started our 20 week old on cereal. Won't go into details but after a doctor's visit and a multitude of obvious signs, most importantly, crazy and frequent hunger, we decided to do it.
DH thinks it should be given in the evening to help him have a fuller tummy to sleep and I've caved and given it to him the past 2 nights at 5:30pm, then he's taken a full bf at 6:45. I don't know if I feel very comfortable doing this even though our doctor also said anytime of day is fine whereas many posts here say do it in the morning first.
I know it's best to start in the morning to see how it digests/be sure of allergies but after you determine it is sitting well with your lo, what are the arguments to keep the cereal in the morning?
Any reasons are welcome - I need "ammunition" to convince DH! He is feeling like so many of the decisions we are making are ultimately mine and I want him to feel comfortable with whatever we decide without jeapordizing our lo's comfort.
I'm also concerned about this because of the 4-5 days that often go by before a poop just on bm. However, he slept more comfortably than usual with the cereal in his tummy than without, despite the fact that we were on day 3 of no poop yesterday.
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My advice is to do the meal 1hr after morning feed or 1hr after mid morning feed as often giving it at night can often leave them having a heavy stomach. Also when you start introducing different and new foods you will be able to monitor whether their are any reactions during the day.
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Thanks, Natasha, that is pretty much what I figured. I mentioned these points to DH last night before I even saw your post and he suddenly just said, nice and calmly, sure thing! Whatever! Anyways, this morning, he had his first bf at 7:15 and his cereal at 8:15. The first 2 days I gave him a full beginning serving which is 4 tbsp of cereal mix and 1.5 oz of liquid (I'm using ebm for now) and he ate almost all of it. In retrospect I thought maybe he doesn't know when he's full because it's something new and maybe there was too much food sitting in his tummy, especially when he was taking a full bf before bed only a little over an hour later. He slept very fitfully last night, started stirring about 1.5 hours in and continued for several hours after that. Then woke at 1:15, 4:15 and 5:45 before getting up at 7am. He always wakes at night but this was a little more than usual, much earlier than usually and he just generally made a lot more noise in his sleep than he usually does. He also hasn't pooped for almost 5 days (the pattern for the past 4 weeks) and we find by this point he is getting quite uncomfortable! So this morning, I only mixed 1 tbsp of cereal with 1 tbsp of ebm and he downed that pretty quick. I think I may double that tomorrow morning but then slowly build to the full 4 tbsp. When do you start giving cereal 2 times a day?