RE: Rice cereal in bottle
schuyler spit up A LOT at EVERY feeding until he was about 10 months old. so i truly emphathize. but since it sounds like your DS doesn't have a medical problem that causes him to spit up, like mine didn't, i would not go to a dangerous length to make him stop. adding cereal to a bottle can be a choking hazard, in addition to the future digestive problems early solids can cause (as well as other things.) i KNOW it is annoying and very inconvienient. but if it doesn't bother him, then i would advise that you just buy more burp cloths and bibs. ;)
ETA: and i hear ya- schuyler was 18 pounds at 16 weeks. he ate every 3 hours until about 3-4 months old. i EBF, so i don't really know, but would he eat a little more at each feeding? or does that just make him spit up the extra in addition to the normal spit up?
Liza has been hangin' around this board for six years.
My sons are 4 and 6. And they are very loud.