weighing down bottles with rice

our GI recently told us that now since we are starting solids with our LO that we can begin to cut back on the rice cereal in her bottles. she currently gets 1 tsp of cereal per 1oz of allimentum. he said i can begin weaning her, etc and to go at my own pace. :huh:
so, lol. anyone do this and can give some tips? when we didn't give her cereal in her bottle once (it was when she was about 1 month old) she was AWFUL! AWFUL, AWFUL reflux and we never looked back. but now that she gets a little breakfast and a little dinner, i was wondering what everyone else did who was in this situation.

thanks so much!

 

You know, I never took the rice cereal out. We needed it for reflux and for calorie loading, so I just left it. I wish I could offer some advice!

 

We never took the rice out either. We decreased it a little (from 1:1 to 3:4) when they were able to sit up on their own, but never took it out completely.

 

Funny, we never took it out either!! It made such a difference with the reflux and her weight issue that we just always put it in. Even now at 19 months old I add a scoop to her lactose free milk daily. She's 5 pounds lighter than her sister and can use all the extra calories I can get in her