Rice cereal?

Question

I had someone suggest i put rice cereal in my baby’s breast milk in the bottle before bed to help him sleep longer. 
I am not going to do it but I was curious if any of you do?
Or what are your thoughts about it?
My babe is 9 weeks and 12 ponds and still not longer then an average of 2 hrs to eat. Day or night. He does one 3-3:30 (hr) time a day without eating and that’s it’s. Even his pediatrician said he should be going for longer at night. 
I’ve just got a fatty in my hands? 🤷‍♀️😂
But dang ladies on a serious note I need him to sleep longer I have no help and I’m losing my mind doing this still. It’s making me not feel well and cry a lot. I do nap every morning with him but I’m past the point of naps helping. I need a full sleep cycle BAD.

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I started putting it in my daughters bottle at night when she was about a month old and she sleeps for about 6 hours at a time at night now

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I used rice cereal for a week and it just made my baby constipated and grumpy

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4 months and up is what I hear. But I wouldn’t. They can choke on it and it makes them gain so much weight. But it doesn’t make them sleep longer lol
My baby is 11 weeks and sleeps from midnight until about 10/11 am. No secret. I just trained her like that because I’m not a morning person.
She has a 5 oz bottle around 8 then again at 11pm. And right before I go to bed ( at midnight) I give her 2 more oz. and put her in her swing.

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I use the Similac spit up formula that has rice already in it at night. she only gets up once.

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Is he on any sort of schedule during the day? If he’s not already, work on an eat, play, sleep pattern and get in a good nap schedule. Also at this age, his naps should be an hour and a half to two hours max. Wake him up after two hours. Try to at least get that longer stretch to fall overnight. Once my son’s naps got more predictable, his night sleep started to get better. He wasn’t able to go more than 2-3 hours though until he had his lip tie fixed. Have you checked to see if your son has a tongue or lip tie? My son’s was causing him to not be able to take in enough milk at a time because he would end up fatiguing after just a little bit. The day he got his clipped he went his first four hour stretch without eating. Within a week, he started going 4-5 hours at night! My son was gaining weight great, but only because he was nursing every two hours round the clock. Definitely worth looking into. Pediatricians don’t always catch it.

Rice cereal?

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