Our doctor has just advised us that we should be starting our son on cereal starting with one teaspoon today, two tomorrow, and build it up. I asked if we could give him formula first, and he said to give him cereal. I am wondering which would be better to start with, he is too young for solids in my opinion, so I am thinking one bottle of formula at night before bed.
The reason the doctor has recommended this is because we brought our son to the doctor thinking he may have reflux and after that was ruled out, we came to lack of calories in the day. His weight has not increased in the last 3 weeks, he eats 2-3 times longer in the day and more often and is waking at night hungry when he used to sleep through the night. This has been going on for 2 weeks now and getting worse every day. This is the third doctor we have seen and none can find anything clinically wrong with him. We are waiting for a referral for a pediatrician, but that will take 10 days to 3 weeks to get into.
Developmentally, he seems to be ahead in some aspects and on time with the others (held his head up on his own from 4 weeks, already rolling over, good with a spoon in his mouth, etc.). What do you think?
Thanks!
