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Making porridge with breast milk

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Mumof1DS · 19/09/2018 08:57

Does anyone do this? I brought the aptamil baby porridge which is to be made up with water. LO seems to like it, even though it smells absolutely vile IMO.
I have done a bit of research and it seems that a lot of people either use ready brek or blended up regular porridge oats. I'm keen to do this instead over baby porridge and would like to make it up with breast milk instead.
LO is 6.5 months, so I know I can use cows milk for cooking but would like to give this a go first.
Has anyone tried it? I don't want to microwave it because of the antibodies and all the good stuff. How do you hear you're enough to make porridge? Does it work sufficiently by standing it in hot water first?
Thank you!

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Meepmoop · 19/09/2018 09:09

I used blended up Lidl oats with breastmilk for my DS but I did microwave it. You could maybe do it on the hob.

I started off with only putting a tiny amount of oats in and then built it up as he got more used to solids

April45 · 19/09/2018 22:16

Go for it.. there's no right or wrong

CocoDeMoll · 19/09/2018 22:19

I’m mixing baby rice (Boots own) with breast milk.

BumbleBerries · 20/09/2018 19:58

You can microwave with say half the milk, to make it really thick, then add the rest to thin it and cool it down. You get half the antibodies that way but it's still cooked, and could do the first bit with water or cows milk if you prefer.

I think readybrek would work with just warm milk, not sure about blended oats (whole oats should probably be cooked).

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