Rice Cereal for a 5 week old?

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A friend of mine posted on FB that her DD is having stomach issues and asked for advice. She said her DD would stiffen up and scream for hours. A lot of people gave suggestions about not eating certain things because she EBF's, "bicycling" her legs and many also recommended she talk to her pedi.

A few days later she posted a pic of her DD in the sink getting a bath and in the background was a box of rice cereal. Turns out she gives her DD a bottle a few times a day of rice cereal to "get her to sleep longer."

Couldn't her stomach issues be caused by eating rice cereal when she's so young? I hope she told her pedi that she was doing that.
ETA: her DD is only 5 weeks old.

[ijack]

how old is she? a lot of docs actually recommend rice cereal in the bottle for kids that have reflux issues (which could be the issue).

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Jul 25, 2012 12:44:55 GMT -5 @msstarry said:

lol. I don't even understand what this means to judge it

But if she is posting stuff that irritates you maybe hide her from your feed?

sorry--I forgot to say that her DD is only 5 weeks old. I thought you weren't suppose to give babies that young rice cereal because their guts weren't mature enough for it.

[ohgillian]

Maybe you should nicely reply that feeding rice cereal to get the baby to sleep longer is a myth. And yes, that's far too young for cereal.

[Ashley&Scott]

Rice cereal can cause constipation...

[oregonpachey]

Breastmilk or formula has more calories in it than rice cereal does so getting them to sleep longer with cereal is a myth.

I know babies with reflux are sometimes given cereal to help but neither of mine ever got it.

[wordtothewise]

Lots of babies that I know (including my own) get rice cereal in a bottle for reflux, particularly after the study came out that indicated that certain reflux meds were correlated with bad outcomes (in preemies).