Rice = Sleep?

The last few nights Helen Grace has started waking up in the middle of the night and screaming for a bottle. She has been sleeping through the night for months now, so this was very odd- and exhausting! I thought desperate times called for desperate measures...it was time for rice cereal. Since I didn't do a ton of research about feeding before HG's arrival, I've really leaned heavily on my doctor's recommendations for our every move (thank goodness, he's a really laid-back guy). He thinks it's best to wait until four months to try rice cereal; however, people have been telling me for months that I should start her on it sooner than that to help with sleeping. etc...and I finally gave in.

We started with a spoon. At first, she wasn't really sure about it and screamed a lot. I'd plug the paci in really quickly and she'd calm down. Then I'd shovel another spoonful in.
And then she started to kind of like it. It was neat to see her processing the feel of the spoon and the cereal and taking it all in. She was so cute gumming the cereal! Although some of it ran back out of her mouth, she luckily never really spit it all back out. Let's hope that means she will be neat and orderly like her mama. :)
Eventually, she'd had enough of the spoon, so we switched to the bottle. She ate a few ounces of the cereal in the bottle before I gave in and switched to plain formula. I was worried I was going to wear her out with all this new stuff in one night! I kept her up late too, so we'll see if this rice cereal stuff will do the trick for our growing girl!