cereal

Norah has been a hungry little girl lately. She has been eating almost 6 fl oz of formula at every feeding for the past week. A few people have mentioned that I need to fed her a little cereal at night to help hold her over for a few hours. I researched it and found mixed reviews. Some people said it helped their baby sleep. Some people said it made their baby fat. Some people said don't do it until she's 6 months old. Some people said they couldn't tell a difference. Well we tried it. I mixed one tablespoon of rice cereal with 5 tablespoons of formula and fed it to her. I really thought that she might be a very messy eater, but as you can tell from her pictures, she was a very neat eater. She seemed to be a natural at eating out of a spoon too. She's slept between 6-8 hours every night this week. However, now she's not such a neat eater. She knows what's coming so she tries to slurp the spoon, and it gets cereal all over her face.