Baby Rice Cereal With Breastmilk

Cereal to thicken liquids.

Baby rice cereal with breastmilk.

Supplementing with baby bottles. Do not use infant cereal in breast milk. It is most effective if done no more than 20 to 30 minutes before your infant. Mix 1 teaspoon of the rice cereal with 4 to 5 teaspoons of breast milk or formula twice a day.

Some people do choose to introduce rice cereal made with breast milk at 4 months fed by spoon. The cereal should be very thin and soupy just thick enough to spoon up from the bowl. Use measuring spoons to figure amounts. So it averts binding of the mbm with rice cereal.

Some enzymes are necessary for the function of the breasts and the production of breast milk some enzymes help a baby with digestion and some are essential a child s development. If you are mixing oatmeal cereal in pumped breast milk. Amylase is the main polysaccharide digesting enzyme in mbm and it digests starch. And if you re breastfeeding and safely co sleeping with your baby nighttime feedings don t require you to get up and lose a lot of sleep soothing a soothe a crying baby.

Generally speaking do not introduce solid foods until your baby is at least four months old unless your pediatrician says otherwise. Breast milk breaks down the cereal and it does not remain thickened. You could also cut a small x over the hole in the nipple with a pair of sterilized scissors. If you mix it too early the enzymes in the breast milk will break down the oatmeal making it ineffective.

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. If you are mixing oatmeal cereal in formula. After adding the rice cereal shake the bottle well. 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.

Do not use regular kitchen spoons. 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. 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. After several months of only consuming breast milk or formula some babies have difficulty adjusting to solid foods.

Basically rice cereal has no nutritional value it is empty calories. Start by serving one or two teaspoons. Don t serve it from a bottle. In general it is recommended that breastfed babies wait until closer until 6 months to maximize the benefits of breastmilk.

If you have questions talk to your child s doctor. Use 1 teaspoons of dry infant cereal rice barley oatmeal mixed. Mix 1 tablespoon of a single grain iron fortified baby cereal with 4 tablespoons 60 milliliters of breast milk or formula. It is best to do it right before your infant will feed.