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I've also read not to put it in a bottle, so we're planning to spoon feed. We haven't started yet, though...probably closer to 6 months. I am not sure about the amount. I think in the beginning you're only supposed to give a tiny amount each day?

Spoon fed and only did a little bit, mixed with BM (at first).

our pediatrician recommended offering the cereal after nursing/bottle so that the primary source of nutrition was bm/formula (although honestly at the very start they're eating so little by spoon that it probably doesn't matter too much).

i think i let the bm/cereal mixture sit at room temp for a few minutes to take the chill off. also, because i didn't want to waste breastmilk, most of the time i used formula to mix in with the cereal.

we offered the cereal mixture a couple of times a day. then daycare started asking for purees/cereal, so i sent in two servings a day (puree mixed with cereal). he seemed to always finish with no problem so i increased the amount over time.

@Alivoo01: I just poured some in from what I pumped that day at work. We started at like 530 once we got home from day care. So it was probably 1-2 hours after her last bottle. I can't remember when she was eating then. Then she would nurse right before bed at 630.

It was more liquid when we first started but it did seem to confuse her. She liked it better when it was thicker.

We would always feed a bottle or nurse first, then wait an hour to offer oatmeal. We didn't make it as soupy as the directions recommended and he was okay with the texture. After a couple weeks, we started to use less milk to make it thicker.