We Started Rice Cereal

Before becoming moms Colleen & I would read tons of articles and spent a good portion of our afternoons googling the answers to all our baby questions. While on our Google search for answers to our baby questions we'd read do NOT put cereal in baby's bottle. I laughed and thought why would you put cereal (thinking frosted flakes) in a baby's bottle?! Well I've come a long way from then...

We started rice cereal this weekend, making the cereal by mixing enough milk with the cereal so it just runs off the spoon. I was surprised how well it went. She still doesn't have complete tongue control to swallow, but she's opening her mouth and getting excited when I bring the spoon to her mouth (and upset if I'm not going fast enough!) My pediatrician said once you start rice cereal if she's interested...you need to stay committed to it on a daily basis. So it looks like I've just added meal time to my list a many daily tasks! I've been incorporating it into her evening routine while we're having dinner, so we have dinner as a family. This way we top the rice cereal off with a bottle and then about an hour later she's down for the night on a full belly. Hopefully this will help her move back into sleeping through the night =)