4a Starches -- Getting started and making them edible
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This article is from the Solid Food for Infants FAQ, by David M. Poduska poduska@cis.ohio-state.edu with numerous contributions by others.
4a Starches -- Getting started and making them edible
From: monc+@pitt.edu (Monica L. Murphy)
Tarra didn't take to the cereal and formula idea at all...
So I mixed it with diluted apple juice and voila! In a couple of days she
was eating four tablespoons or so of apple juice/water/cereal and washing
it down with about four ounces of formula.
Monica L. Murphy
mother to Tarra, who started eating solids at 4 months, just to give you a
reference.
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From: larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu (Tracy Larrabee)
>My doctor suggested that you
>put one teaspoon of cereal in an 8 ounce bottle the first day, two the
>second day and then finally three on the third day (unless there are any
>problems) You shouldn't put cereal in every bottle. Right now I am only
>giving my son two cereal (rice) bottles a day and he is doing just fine.
>He still eats about every four hours but he can go as long as 5 to 6 hours
>after a cereal bottle.
There are lots of different customs in the world and in history (25
years ago in this country they introduced solids very early and 100
years ago they said put off solids for a full year), but today many
doctors (and Penelope Leach, among others) recommend against putting
cereal in a bottle. They say if you must feed cereal, use a spoon.
If the child can't eat from the spoon, he isn't ready for solids
(babies thrust their tongues forward when they are newborns and stop
at sometime after that, though I've seen pictures of newborns sucking
breastmilk off a spoon---I think it was in "BeastFeeding"). I
remember something about how putting solids in the bottle is like
putting too much formula powder in the bottle: it messes up the babies
sense of food/drink and it means he can only eat more when he really
needs to drink more.
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Tracy Larrabee larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu
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