Gotta love how everyone is pushing me to start solids with my 6 month old twins when they are not…

My pediatrician recommends cereal. She says cereal is a good transition from formula/bm to more solid foods.  You can make it as soupy or as thick as you want.  It does have vitamins/minerals etc. but it's really more for getting the baby used to eating from a spoon. My pediatrician has also broke down to me what is in the cereal and why it's good as well. She said it does have vitamins and minerals which is also good for baby but also at 6 months your baby doesn't store iron as much as they did before and the cereal is filled with iron which is good for baby as well.. especially breastfed babies...

We had his grandma and great grandma urging us to put cereal in his bottle at less than 2 months. "That's how we did it!" "It'll help him sleep!" "We did it at two weeks!" 🙄 ....he slept fine, and didn't 60 years ago doctors also recommended smoking while pregnant? Thanks, but no thanks.

If you’re not ready, don’t let anyone pressure you. I made my sons food and skipped cereal completely. As he got older, I’d add it just to thicken up his food if I had accidentally made it too runny but it was rare. Do what makes you comfortable.

@nomli I've never heard of doctors recommending smoking while pregnant, but I have heard them say- it could be dangerous to stop cold turkey while pregnant.

@danielzamor2007, yeah, it was to try and control weight gain or nausea, I think.

@danielzamor2007, the vitamins it does have are synthetic and hard for babies to process. Most healthy normal babies don’t need that extra fortified iron

@nomli that's crazy lol

@modom16 They need that extra iron up until 1yr of age.. my pediatrician said- they can't lie on the labels.. this is what they're saying about the cereal- that they're synthetic but they have no actual proof, and if that was the case- they wouldn't be aloud to make it anymore... I liked it bc you could add if to other foods, and make it soupy or thick... It's great to start off with because of allergy purposes as well...

@danielzamor2007, what do you mean there’s no proof it’s on the tub, rice doesn’t contain these vitamins naturally they’re added in.

@modom16 I'm sorry, can you point out to me where it says synthetic? If you ask me- the ingredients in this seems ok to me.

@danielzamor2007, the words listed are the synthetic form of the vitamins that are in parentheses

@modom16 if it says B12 it's B12 if it says vitamin D it's vitamin D.. pointless debate!

@danielzamor2007, these vitamins are found naturally in fruits, veggies, meats etc but the synthetic versions are added to infant cereal. Baby’s bodies can more easily process the naturally occurring ones over the synthetic ones. How’s this pointless 😂 it’s good to learn new things

@modom16 It's baby cereal for god sakes- it's not a harming drug for your kid... There's no nutritional value in a cupcake, but every once in awhile you give your kid a cupcake in life... Again, my pediatrician says it's great to add to the baby foods and you can make it soupy or as thick as you want... You're not telling me anything I don't know- that's why it's a pointless debate!

I am also not spoon feeding my babies. I do Baby Led Weaning. And if they need more iron, I can give them food with iron or use iron supplements

@danielzamor2007, the difference there is we don’t feed cupcakes multiple times a day to 6 month olds and call it a starter food

@ladyfreyja, I started out making his foods then gave him everything off of my plate. You clearly know what you’re doing. 👍🏽

@modom16 Girl, you don't feed baby cereal multiple times a day as well... All parents do things differently it is whatever works for that parent and what they're comfortable with in the first place... Things change all the time... I did with my daughter as what I did with my soon-to-be 13 year old son... A little bit of baby cereal in the bottle at night starting at 3 months because of reflux purposes... 4 months went straight to baby food... Six months was eating everything I was eating except it was smashed up... By 9 months my kids were eating like myself... Both of my kids have had baby cereal- they're alive they're healthy and fine... I just don't find this whole baby cereal thing to be a big ass deal

I also wait to start any kind of solids till 6 months. 3 months is to early for their little bellies

@ladyfreyja pediatrician recommend 3 months because as I said- it was for reflux purposes.

Oh gotcha. We don't have that problem here with reflux