Feed Gerber Rice Cereal to a Baby - Prop your baby up in his favorite seat or a in high chair. Do not attempt to feed your baby Gerber rice cereal until he can sit upright with support.
Mix 1 tbsp. of Gerber rice cereal in a bowl with 5 tbsp. of room-temperature breast milk or infant formula. The consistency should look like thickened milk, mostly liquid and fairly smooth. Do not use other kinds of milk.
Feed Gerber Rice Cereal to a Baby
Offer your baby a small amount of the runny rice-cereal mixture with a baby spoon while he is sitting up. If your baby does not seem ready to accept the spoon or the rice cereal after a couple of attempts, give up for now and try again in a couple of days or longer. Wait until your baby is ready.
Increase the amount of Gerber rice cereal in proportion to the amount of formula or breast milk you use gradually for the next few days until the cereal is a bit thicker. Eventually you will be mixing one tablespoon of Gerber rice cereal with two tablespoons of breast milk or formula.
Continue feeding your baby formula or breast milk thickened with rice cereal to two or three times per day in addition to regular breast milk or formula feedings as directed by your doctor.
Babies are typically ready to be introduced to solid food around the age of four to six months, when she can sit up supported by a chair or pillows. Your pediatrician will advise you on the exact age to start feeding solids to your baby, as well as what her first food should be, but many parents give Gerber rice cereal as their babies' first solid food. Gerber rice cereal introduces the baby to solid foods, provides nutrition and satisfies her hunger. Most babies tolerate rice cereal well, and a rice allergy is extremely rare. - by eHow
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