What is rice cereal?

What is rice cereal?

Rice cereal is often baby's first real food besides breast milk. Rice cereal comes as flakes and can be mixed with breast milk or formula. Be sure to read the packaging of rice cereal before giving it your baby the very first time. Some brands of rice cereal already have formula added to it. Babies with cow milk allergy might experience allergy reactions in some cases if rice cereal that has formula added is used. Rice cereal can be used to reduce the impact of acid reflux onto baby's well being.

When using rice cereal make sure the prepared meal is still watery and not like thick texture you would probably eat. Rice cereal should be offered after the actual meal as some sort of snack. If you feed baby with rice cereal when he is hungry you will have difficulties later on when you get to real solid food. Baby will be used to suck down calory loaded milk in minutes if you offer rice cereal as the meal. Now try to shovel that much solid food into baby's mouth at the same speed. Impossible!!!!