? for reflux mommies...

If you added rice cereal to your bottles, when did you stop? The boys have been off meds for a while, but I have been hesitant to stop putting cereal in - now that they are eating more solids, I think it might be time... how did you know, and how did you do it - cold turkey, reducing amount???

TIA

 

If you added rice cereal to your bottles, when did you stop? The boys have been off meds for a while, but I have been hesitant to stop putting cereal in - now that they are eating more solids, I think it might be time... how did you know, and how did you do it - cold turkey, reducing amount???

TIA

 

I haven't stopped yet but I was thinking I would add a tsp less and see how it goes and then take it down tsp by tsp and see if they can tolerate it. Congrats on being off meds, I wish we were! Good luck!

 

I am still adding cereal to their bottles as I am scared to stop. They are still on their meds now and we will attempt to take them off a 1 year. Their, well my son was mostly the spitter, has really decreased in the last week, so I am hoping they are out growing it. But we still put cereal in the bottles.

 

my pedi said not to use ceral but since theire on ready to feed formula to add powder formula to his bottles. so sorry i cant be no help but . i still add the powder to theire bottles and they are still on meds.

 

If you think they might be ready for it, give it a try! Jacob has the worst reflux of the 2, and still spits up even with the cereal, so I will not be taking his cereal out for a while. Emma on the other hand, doesn't spit up AS much, so just yesterday I lessened the amount of cereal in her bottles and she seems to be doing well so far. It was scary at first....I guess I expected a fountain of spit up!

 

It didn't work very well for us, I mean it did help with the reflux and there was much less spit up, but the nipple was always getting clogged not matter how big I split it... so I started using a spoon and feeding it to him that way. They both ate Rice cereal until after a year of age, plus all their other solids.