(Piggyback) Are you going to give cereal?

brennarobbie

I don't mean to take away from the other post about cereal, but are there any mamas out there thinking of not giving their baby cereal? I know some babies with reflux need it to help keep their food down. But I keep reading about how it's just empty calories and they don't really actually need it at this point. Something like that it's not nutritionally valuable to them. I'm very torn, and I know my pediatrician is going to tell me to start giving it to him, but I'm not sure that I really want to (I'm in the process of breaking up with them and finding a better, more BF'ing friendly practice). I've been thinking about exclusively BF'ing for the first 6 months, but I'm not sure if I should do the cereal or oatmeal thing before 6 mos... Help!?!