Did your baby hate cereal?

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DD is a little over 5 months old and formula does not keep her full anymore. She will go through six or eight 6 ounce bottles a day, sometimes back to back.

I've been trying to do cereal for a while and I'm so frustrated with it. She does not seem to like it. She doesn't like it plain, with fruit, thin, or thick. No matter how I do it, she gags on it or just spits it out. She seems to like the actual fruit ok, but not the cereal.

I think her and I are both beyond frustrating with trying to do cereal. It just gets all over. She squirms around and just spits it out. Last night resulted in a full on meltdown because I gave her the cereal. She did ok with two bites, but the third was apparently the end all. I've tried giving her a sip of formula every couple of bites, which seems to help for a teensy bit.

I think she needs more. I need to make an appointment with her doctor, but our medical insurance doesn't kick in until March 1. Should I just stick to giving her pureed foods and not bother with cereal? Will those fill her up and give her nutrients? I bought four huge containers of formula about a month ago...maybe even more like 3 weeks and they are all completely gone.

[teatimefor2]

My DS HATED baby cereal. I was BF and considered food at that stage for fun only. Have you tried purées?

Is it a growth spurt? Could you call pedi as opposed to going in for an appt?

[Deleted]

The pedi said she couldn't give advice without seeing her. I think we've definitely hit another growth spurt. She seems to like the purees, which is why I was thinking we might ignore the cereal and do purees.

[curbsideprophet]

We never gave cereal at that age. I would probably stop trying and just give fruit and veggies.

[thebreakfastclub]

That does seem like a lot of formula. Maybe try plain full fat yogurt for more calories and fats.

[Velar Fricative]

From what I know, there is a typical growth spurt at around 6 months. My DD has hit all her growth spurts early so far so maybe your DD is the same? If so, I would keep trying different foods just for fun and not force the cereal but just go with it in terms of the formula amounts and hope that if it's a spurt, she won't go through all that formula much longer.

[drloretta]

Cereal isn't meant to be nutritional, it's to get kids used to textures. A lot of people skip it altogether.

I can't remember how much formula DD had at that age, but I can guess it was a lot. I agree, probably a growth spurt, and just ride the wave until things settle down. You can try introducing other solids at this point if you want. My babe didn't like avocadoes ::pout::

[thebreakfastclub]

Feb 15, 2014 8:02:48 GMT -5 swizz said:

Feb 15, 2014 7:34:40 GMT -5 thebreakfastclub said:

That does seem like a lot of formula. Maybe try plain full fat yogurt for more calories and fats.

Wholesome baby says no dairy until after 6 months I believe (I know it specifically says nondairy for 4-6 months).

Maybe flameful, but I just don't see a huge difference between 5+ months and 6 months, especially since formula is dairy.

I did not start any solids at all before 6 months, but this baby seems not fully satisfied with what OP is doing now.

[redheadbaker]

We never tried giving him straight rice cereal (I made me nauseous just looking at it); we tried giving baby oatmeal and he wasn't a fan. So we just used it to thicken very loose purees.

[Marmee]

My baby liked oats (but she ended up allergic) ok. With rice or wheat I just mixed with fruit & she'd eat it. She didn't love solids in general though until she was 8-9months old.