started solids , we have a few questions...

[rileyand wyatt]

Hi there,

we just started solids a couple of weeks ago and a few things are changing and i just want to make sure we are okay and if i need to change a few things..

First, are my babies poops suppose to be getting harder, she is on rice cereal as well as a few veggie's. did i do it right or should i sart with fruit? she is bottle feed and on soy so already her poops were firm. any words of advice. I am sure there are many babies on soy formula when they start solids.. she poops twice a day and is notin pain just hard poops. okay enough about that.

Second, she never has had hiccups before only as a newborn, well in the last 3 days that is all she is doing? am i feeding her to much.. they are bad after every feed. I sort of let her lead on how much she wants.. she eats alot of just starting, at the beginning i thought we were starving her she wanted more and will cry when i stop, then happy when istart again, but i don't want to over feed her.. HELP!!

thanks for any advice someone can give me..

Dana

[Ennypen]

Hiya

The way you have started on solids sounds fine to me - its just the way I started - with cereal then introducing some veggies. I too noticed that with the Wills poo did become firmer which was not a problem and I believe is pretty normal. If it got too firm and he was in danger of constipation I gave him a drink of slightly warm water which softens things up.

The hiccups may be being caused as your LO is getting used to swaowing food which is different  to drinking milk and she may be swallowing air too which is giving her the hiccups. Never fear they go away and they won't harm her. Also babies don;t tend to overeat all that often so give her how much she wants (within reason) she will stop when she is full - Will always has done.

You are doing a great job! Keep going!

H xxx

[ryan's mum]

rice cereal can be constipating for some LO's ,we switched to oatmeal and Ryan digested it better.

[rileyand wyatt]

ryans mom~ how long did you wait to switch. i have for sure seen a difference in her poops, should i wait a  weekor soa nd see what happens..

[ryan's mum]

we switched after a week as his constipation was getting worse .Ryan suffered with constipation anyway but the rice cereal made things a lot worse.

[tylersmommy]

It's normal for poops to get harder when you start solids. TMI alert here...what you want to look out for is poops that look like little marbles or pebbles instead of well formed. Marbles usually mean constipation.