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Solids, 2 Months and Eating Cereal?
Naomi Rivkis wrote:
In general it's too early, but to some extent it depends on the child. My mother started feeding me cereal in addition to formula when I was 2 months old because I was a huge and very hungry baby and no matter how much formula I was getting, it wasn't enough. The pediatrician told her, "The babies don' t ead the books. If you've got a hungry baby, feed her what makes her stop being hungry." Naomi My son (born in '75) was large for the times and stayed in the hospital 5 days due to a rash that proved completely harmless. They began feeding him cereal at 4 days because he was "starving 1/2 hour after feeding". He ate ravenously until age two when he modified. He's been very healthy-lean ever since. gloria p |
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Solids, 2 Months and Eating Cereal?
On Sat, 29 May 2004 11:33:42 -0700, "Circe" wrote:
I'm not saying your husband's asthma/allergies *weren't* caused by early solids. But my husband is the poster boy of anti-atopy, and he never received a drop of breastmilk and, given his age (46), I'm sure he was fed cereal and other solids at a very early age. So really, you just never know. I would be the poster girl equivalent. I not only have no allergies, I don't even have the 'allergic-type' reactions almost everyone has. I don't react at all to poison ivy, mosquito bites or bee stings (I feel the stinger when it goes in, but the poison doesn't affect me). I also didn't catch so much as a cold till I was five, and have had maybe half a dozen since, and I'm 34. I was fed formula from day 1, with cereal starting at 2 months. No, it's not the way to bet, and I don't intend to do it with my daughter -- you play the odds in your child's favor when you can. But it's a matter of odds, not absolutes. Naomi |
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Barbara ) wrote:
I'm pretty sure solids were routinely introduced at 2 months when I was an infant in 1964. I know I was started on cereal at that time. Me too. My mother's diary says when I was something like a month or two old, "Helen took cereal well today for first time," as if she'd been trying it for a while! --Helen |
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Solids, 2 Months and Eating Cereal?
My reason for believing that this is what caused his asthma is that none of
our kids, all bf exclusively until 6 months (and as you know, continued bf for LONG after that!) have asthma, or any allergies except for atopic dermatitis which was outgrown. Hard to say. DH had severe asthma as a child. I had (and still have) pretty bad eczema (atopic dermatitis.) He was not bf at all. I was only bf for a few weeks. Shaina was bf for 14 months, and got no solids until 5 months. She has moderate asthma. (Though it seems to be getting a lot better now! knock wood.) I would suspect that it would have been a lot worse if I hadn't bf'd, or had started solids early, but we still did't avoid the problem completely. Naomi CAPPA Certified Lactation Educator (either remove spamblock or change address to to e-mail reply.) |
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Carol Ann wrote:
She is the one who had so many problems with him crying all the time. After she gave him cereal, he stopped being so fussy. I follow the 4-6 month recommendation of starting solids and actually wait until 6 months. I had one very large baby and two very hungry babies and never felt the need to start sooner. I have heard that babies with reflux will cry less once they start solids. I imagine it stays down better but I don't know if that is actually true or not. -- Nikki Mama to Hunter (5) and Luke (3) |
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H Schinske wrote:
Barbara ) wrote: I'm pretty sure solids were routinely introduced at 2 months when I was an infant in 1964. I know I was started on cereal at that time. Me too. My birthday is next Sunday. I can hardly believe it's the big 4-0! (My husband told me the other night he cannot believe I'm 40 already and, sweetly, says I certainly don't look it. But then, he's 46 and doesn't look a day over 35, so I guess it's a good thing I don't look 40 or people might mistakenly believe I married a younger man g). -- Be well, Barbara Mom to Sin (Vernon, 2), Misery (Aurora, 4), and the Rising Son (Julian, 6) Aurora (in the bathroom with her dad)--"It looks like an elephant, Daddy." Me (later)--"You should feel flattered." All opinions expressed in this post are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are not those of my Internet Service Provider, its other subscribers or lackeys. Anyone who says otherwise is itchin' for a fight. -- with apologies to Michael Feldman |
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H Schinske wrote:
wrote: My birthday is next Sunday. I can hardly believe it's the big 4-0! I'm actually slightly older than you. I was fine with turning 40. I just looked in the mirror, said, "Okay, this is what a 40-year-old looks like," and that was that. No biggie :-) Oh, I'm fine with it, too. (35 was harder because I was pregnant and had to hear the words "advanced maternal age" all the time, all the while thinking "I don't *feel* 'advanced' g!). It's just that I can quite believe it. It seems like yesterday I was 16yo and it seemed like the year 2000 when I'd be 36yo was a *million* years away and now, bang, here it is 2004! It just seems funny that what seemed like such a long time to me when I was 16 now seems like not very long at all (and probaby also explains why I don't feel remotely old or over the hill yet, either). -- Be well, Barbara Mom to Sin (Vernon, 2), Misery (Aurora, 4), and the Rising Son (Julian, 6) Aurora (in the bathroom with her dad)--"It looks like an elephant, Daddy." Me (later)--"You should feel flattered." All opinions expressed in this post are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are not those of my Internet Service Provider, its other subscribers or lackeys. Anyone who says otherwise is itchin' for a fight. -- with apologies to Michael Feldman |
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Barbara said:
Well, first of all, just because your kids aren't showing any signs of atopy now doesn't mean you can be *sure* they won't develop atopy later. I am aware that people sometimes develop asthma later in life--my sister actually did as well. But even putting it off past childhood seems like a worthy reason for withholding early solids, etc. So many babies/toddlers seem to be on breathing treatments these days. My husband was diagnosed at age 5, and had been ill for a couple of years before anyone figured out what was wrong with him. snip Beyond that, as far as I know, neither asthma or allergies are really "inherited"; both are basically atopic reactions and what you inherit is a tendency to develop atopic reactions rather than asthma or allergies per se. Even if *both* parents have asthma or allergies, the kids can still wind up *not* having them and it's also possible for parents who don't have any atopic problems of their own to have kids who do. Now, the *likelihood* of those atopic reactions does seem to increase based on early solids/dairy exposure, Well, exactly. That was what I was referring to in my answer to the OP, as to why it is a Bad Idea to start solids early. but there's also a fair amount of theorizing that part of the reason allergies and asthma are on the rise is because we're *too* clean--children's immune systems don't get built properly in part because they're not exposed to potential allergens early and often enough to develop the "right" reaction to them. Which is no doubt another reason why my kids are not allergic to anything, dirty little monsters that they are. I'm not saying your husband's asthma/allergies *weren't* caused by early solids. But my husband is the poster boy of anti-atopy, and he never received a drop of breastmilk and, given his age (46), I'm sure he was fed cereal and other solids at a very early age. So really, you just never know. And given that you just never know, why would someone choose to feed solids early and take that chance? You never know if you are going to be in a serious car accident either, but you don't take your chances with the carseat! Leslie |
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Naomi said:
Shaina was bf for 14 months, and got no solids until 5 months. She has moderate asthma. (Though it seems to be getting a lot better now! knock wood.) I would suspect that it would have been a lot worse if I hadn't bf'd, or had started solids early, but we still did't avoid the problem completely. My husband's asthma is severe, and was more so in his childhood. He had every possible risk factor I've ever heard of, except genetic: Formula fed, early solids, smoking in the home, c-section delivery, living in a highly polluted industrial area . . . Given that heredity, I wanted to do everything I could to avoid triggering possible asthma and allergies in my kids. I'm sure that with a strong enough family history, kids may end up with allergies regardless--but doing everything we know we can may ameliorate their conditions. Leslie |
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