How do you feel about rice cereal in bottles?

Question

Did you do it and regret it?
Did you do it and it helped you?
Did you never do it? If so, why not? 
Why would you recommend it?
Why wouldn't you recommend it?

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Nope, never. It is a choking hazard, a myth that it helps babies sleep longer and has no nutritional value.

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Only with one of my four. She had reflux so needed it for medical reason.

Outside of that none of them ever had rice cereal because I used BLW.

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I've never done it. My child doesn't have acid reflux, so there's no benefit.

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We did it under our pediatrician's recommendation for reflux. It worked well for us and we never had any issues.

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We did it for my son's reflex per our pediatrician. It didn't help him sleep longer at night, but it did help reduce the number of bottles I fed him during the day (he was still getting plenty of milk). Honestly unless you're doing it for reflux, I'd just skip it. Cutting bigger holes in nipples and finding out the correct amount of cereal to put in the bottle without making it too thick, but also make sure it's not so thin..it's really a pain. But if you really want to try it, it's not going to hurt. Just make sure to keep baby upright while feeding so they can get the hang of the texture.

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Hey there! My son is 16 months now, and when he was 2 months old we began putting rice cereal with his bottle. I breastfed for 2 months but he was not keeping anything down, we found out he had reflux and pediatrician recommended rice cereal to thicken my breastmilk in a bottle. It worked like a charm. But we noticed he began getting constipated, and then we learned that oatmeal cereal is wayyyy better and more nutritious for his growing body. 16 months and still getting oatmeal cereal in bottle. It thickens it up so he doesn't have so many bottles through the night. Hope this helps 😊

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