First Rice Cereal Experience

Jemma has her first experience with rice cereal last night and it was drastically different than her experience with avocado. She LOVED it!! Mike and I had a small disagreement on how thick it should be. I mixed it according to the box and it was pretty soupy, so Mike kept adding cereal to it until it was super thick. We were feeding her this whole time. I told him that she is only supposed to get 1 tbsp of cereal and that she might get constipated if she eats too much. So I added more breastmilk to it to water it down. She was opening her mouth really wide and pulling at the spoon to eat more. She was loving it. We fed it to her when she was hungry and she just kept wanting more but I thought she already had too much, so I cut her off and finished feeding her with milk. I can see why people use cereal to help their babies sleep because she was fussy afterwards while we ate dinner while mike was holding her so he laid her on his lap with a blanket and she passed right out. That cereal put her right to sleep :) She woke up a little later and got some awake time but then went right to sleep last night and slept through the whole night. I'm still not sure if it will make her constipated or not, we will have to see. I am going to wait for her to poop before giving her more. (tmi, i know ...) But also last night, I laid her in her crib while she was drowsy but still awake and she played with her rattle for a bit before falling right asleep with no fussing at all. It was amazing!