My sons (4) were all born prior to this no feed idea. None of them could handle my milk, so it was whole milk, out of the fridge, slightly warmed and cereal at 9 days old. I have 4 healthy men now and we did the same for the grandbabies when they came along. After the third night of crying, I showed my DIL's how to mix a little cereal in the milk in their bottle and then progressed to feeding from a spoon runny cereal. My newest great GD is getting the same thing.