down sides to starting cereal early??

wish4#2 · 06-08-2008, 12:56 PM

I asked my pediatrician if there were any down sides or side effects to starting cereal early?? It will help with reflux/spitting up and I thought it would help him sleep longer at night?? He said the latter was a fallacy?? Really??? I thought I have always heard it helped with sleeping because it is heavier??? Anyway, do any of you know if there are any known negative side effects to starting early (besides possible constipation with rice cereal)????
FYI - My son is 7 weeks on Tuesday.

**BC-dawnymarie** · 06-09-2008, 07:22 PM

We started at 5weeks with rice cereal and ended up with severe constipation and came off the rice cereal and went to Zantac. They did tell us a remedy for the constipation was one tablespoon of brown sugar and 2 ozs of water. It took a day or so to work but it really worked. Wishing you luck

06-08-2008, 12:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
wish4#2 1000-4999 post queen of hearts Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: California Posts: 1,125	down sides to starting cereal early?? I asked my pediatrician if there were any down sides or side effects to starting cereal early?? It will help with reflux/spitting up and I thought it would help him sleep longer at night?? He said the latter was a fallacy?? Really??? I thought I have always heard it helped with sleeping because it is heavier??? Anyway, do any of you know if there are any known negative side effects to starting early (besides possible constipation with rice cereal)???? FYI - My son is 7 weeks on Tuesday.

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06-09-2008, 07:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
BC-dawnymarie 1000-4999 post queen of hearts Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: CT Posts: 3,257	We started at 5weeks with rice cereal and ended up with severe constipation and came off the rice cereal and went to Zantac. They did tell us a remedy for the constipation was one tablespoon of brown sugar and 2 ozs of water. It took a day or so to work but it really worked. Wishing you luck