Rice cereal at 4 mos?? - Page 2

[CHoney]

Those charts are based on formula fed babies who are overfed in comparison to breastfed babies. If your baby seems healthy, I wouldn't really be concerned, but that's just my opinion.

My DS was 90th percentile for hight and 5-10% for weight, but he is healthy. DH and I are small framed people. Here's a good link:

http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/growth/index.html

and this one discourages cereal feeding but gives other suggestions: http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns..._increase.html

[MamaRabbit]

^^^ Yes, the original charts are based on formula fed babies. But there are new charts put out by the WHO which are based on breastfed babies. And it's quite a difference.

And yes, some babies are just not chart babies!

[Pogo0685]

Originally Posted by caro113

Thanks for posting this. My mother has been on my case to start giving my 5 month old rice cereal and just won't believe me when I say she can't have anything until at least 6 months. All I get is "we gave you rice cereal at 2 wks and you slept through the night. no problems" ... ugh ..
So thanks for posting this. It's definitely reassuring.

My mom is the same way, My son is 4 weeks and she says I should be giving him rice cereal every time I see her. And her reason is she gave me and my brother cereal that early so we would sleep through the night. But she also says that he should have doubled his weight in the first month and that I must not be feeding him enough because he isn't a 16 pound 1 month old! Really shes stuck in the stone age.

[ATLFTM]

Thanks again! All of your posts are so reassuring. Our normal ped is much more bf supportive than her fill-in, and knows both my husband and me (we both really are tiny people - he's 5'8 and weighs 140 soaking wet, I'm 5'2 and before baby weighed just over 100), so she really doesn't seem so concerned. We don't plan on giving her rice cereal at all.