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I need some mom advice

PMeg819PMeg819 member
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Can I skip cereal and move to purees? We were given the green light to start and I've been trying for about 2 weeks now, and he won't eat it. He won't try it with formula or breastmillk. It's not the spoon because he'll put that in his mouth happily. It's the cereal. I'm going to call the pedi's office but I'd like to hear that someone else did it and their baby didn't explode or something. I need constant reassurance for my "bad"parenting.
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Re: I need some mom advice

  • PMeg819PMeg819 member
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    edited December 2011
    No, the fat baby doesn't want to waste his time on eating anything but real food. I think he wants a fat steak and a baked potato.
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  • tawillerstawillers member
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    edited December 2011

    Have you tried a different kind of cereal?  Changed consistencies?

    We started DD on rice cereal and she developed a really bad rash from it.  So we switched her to oatmeal and never looked back.

    I'm not a doctor, but I don't see the harm in introducing food, but keep trying the cereal.  It took DD a while to really like some of the foods and we'd just wait a few days and try again.  Sometimes it took 5 or 6 tries to get her to eat/like certain foods.

    Get out of here with the "bad parenting" stuff.  You're doing great.  Ask nico and femme/kjsbride how many emails they got when our little ones were younger.  I asked them questions all the time.

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  • baconsmombaconsmom member
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    edited December 2011
    You might try child-led weaning, which is basically just giving him small, mashed amounts of whatever you're eating that he seems interested in. 

    Bacon didn't much go for cereal, either; we did some purees but mostly just started her on regular food, adjusted so she can eat it, of course.
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  • HeffalumpHeffalump member
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    edited December 2011
    I think you can.  How much formula is he getting now?  DD wasn't that into cereal and didn't get formula until my supply started fading, so for a while she wasn't getting iron from her diet and needed a supplement.  If Mr. Chubby gets mostly breastmilk and eats purees but not cereal, have your pedi check his iron at your next visit and put him on Fer-In-Sol if needed.  (You can get it OTC.)
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  • PMeg819PMeg819 member
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    edited December 2011
    I didn't think of trying other cereals. Yes, I've done thicker or thinner consistencies thinking that it was a texture issue but no dice. He looks at me like I'm abusing him or something.

    ETA: He gets a bottle or two of formula a day. I think his iron should be good.
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  • pegasuskatpegasuskat member
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    edited December 2011
    My granddaughter wouldn't eat it either, until we started mixing it half and half with fruits, then she sucked it right down.
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  • MinMMinM
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    edited December 2011
    Pmeg - by the looks of Mr. Chubby - he's ready to move onto the the steak.
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  • hmonkeyhmonkey member
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    edited December 2011

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  • DG1DG1 member
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    edited December 2011
    He's 5m old?  Both of my kids had at least tried "real" food (sweet potato puree or squash or somethign) by then.

    Another new mom I know just reported incredible success with sweet potatoes for a baby who rejected both rice cereal and oatmeal. 

    Our pedi recommended veggies before fruits, fwiw. 

    So yeah, go for it.

    Another tip I learned this morning: frozen waffles for teething!  I am totally using this.  We also put frozen grapes in one of those mesh feeders when Dex was teething. He loved it.  Des, not so much, but we're still trying.

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  • DG1DG1 member
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    edited December 2011
    oh, and keep some cereal handy.  We end up mixing it into the purees quite often, because the purees are pretty thin, and my fat baby likes his food thick and pasty. :)

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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    edited December 2011
    We started with the rice and 6let HATED it.  We moved to the oatmeal and he liked it much better.  I would try the other cereal for a little while.  If he still hates it try mixing in a little puree.  We started with veg and I've heard that's best.  6let loved all of his veggies.

    I used the oatmeal a lot when I was making his baby food.  Some stuff was just liquidy and the oatmeal thickened it.  We still give 6let oatmeal in his applesauce and other fruit purees I make. 
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