Rice to Oatmeal

When can i switch to oatmeal? Ava has been on rice cereal for about 3 weeks....also when i make the switch...is that the end of the rice cereal for good? I'm so confused.

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I only waited about 2 weeks but actually my doctor just said to give it 3-5 days. Once she tolerated the rice I tried the oatmeal and now I take turns. She might have rice for breakfast and dinner one day and oatmeal for lunch, and vice versa the next day. The doc said once she has a few foods she tolerates well you can mix them and switch them up as you wish so I always mix her cereal with her fruit -- she likes it much better that way anyway, the taste of the plain cereal wasn't one she was very fond of.

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My doctor advised to try each new thing for 4 days, but I did a week for the 3 cereals, since I wanted to be the one to do it (on the weekend). Now that we've started fruit, I do one every 4 days--we're up to peaches now.

I find she's not in love with eating food, so here's our schedule...
About 1-1 1/2 tbsp cereal with 1/3 jar of fruit first thing in AM--usually around 9am. This is followed directly with about 6 oz formula.

Between 12-1ish, 8 oz formula

Between 3-4ish, 8 oz formula

Cereal and fruit, 6 oz bottle around 6pm

Top off 2-4 oz around 7pm

Bed

My doctor said around 6 mos. or when she really starts loving food to do 3 meals, but for now we do (barely) 2 meals.

ETA: she rarely finishes even that little food.

Message edited 2/20/2006 10:46:38 AM.

Re: Rice to Oatmeal

I started Emily on applesauce/rice about 2 weeks before her dr's visit so once I had the visit it was easy for me to get the other foods established. She is about 4.5 months now.

Her schedule is:
7:30-8am wake up - 6 oz bottle
8:45-9am 1/2 jar of fruit (apples, pears or bananas) mixed with 1 tbsp rice or oatmeal.

11am 6 oz bottle
12 noon 1/2 jar fruit/cereal

4pm 6 oz bottle

6pm 1/2 jar fruit/cereal (we tried sweet potatoes too this weekend so we might be trying veggies with dinner now)

7:30pm 6 oz bottle

9pm 6 oz bottle

She has 5 6-oz bottles a day and 3 solid feedings a day. She doesn't always finish ALL of her bottles now that she's getting the food too but the dr said this is to be expected - however she's teething too so the last 2 days she only ended up with around 20-22 oz at the end of the day --- but so far today she finished all of her bottles.

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also when she had her 4 month visit the doctor said that by next visit, 5 months, she wanted to see emily eating 3 solid meals a day that include both fruit and cereal. she told me to make sure i start oatmeal by the end of the month too.

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I started with rice cereal and then added oatmeal about 2 weeks later. Once I saw he was OK with both I switched...oatmeal in the am and rice in the pm. I just started mixed grains yesterday so we'll see how he does with that...so far so good. We go for his 6 months apt March 1 and then we will be adding veggies, then fruits.

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I started w/ oatmeal...