Introducing Solid Foods at 3 Months???

Hi D.
No solids yet!!! Please wait until at least four months, and six is even better. Since you have not contacted you ped, here is info from the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford's website (please check out the site for specifically what to feed when -- just google the hospital name and search "solid food" on the hospital site's home page):
"Do not give solid foods unless your baby's physician advises you to do so. Solid foods should not be started before 4 months of age for the following reasons:

Breast milk or formula provides your baby all the nutrients that are needed to grow.

Your baby is not physically developed enough to eat solid food from a spoon.

Starting your baby on solid food too early increases the chance that he/she may develop a food allergy.

Feeding your baby solid food too early may lead to overfeeding and being overweight.

As a general rule, solid foods do not help babies sleep through the night"

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I started my daughter at 3 1/2 or 4 months with the peditrician O.K. She was wanting around 40 ounces of formula and was never satisfied. I started with Rice cereal which is what most people do. After a few weeks I started with vegetables. You don't want your baby to get used to the sweet fruits and later deny the vegetables. My daughter loved carrots and sweet potatoes the best. After she tried every vegetable in the baby food aisle I then introduced all the fruits. I also switched to Oatmeal, because my daughter didn't like the bland taste of rice cereal. A few of my friends with babies the same age did the exact same thing. My daughter is 17 months and no food alleries or adverse affects. She does like almost every food and has always been advanced with what she could eat. I would run the idea by your peditrician and see what they say.

I recently read a study in the medical journal The Lancet (its one of those publications that is referred to in all sorts of print - they publish findings in studies and a whole slew of scientific/medical information) that linked childhood diabetes, both type 1 and type 2, to starting solids too early. It seems that feeding an immature digestive system - a baby under 6 months of age - any sort of solid effects the way the bodies immune system handles insulin. There is already a direct medical link between feeding solids too early and potential allergies, and there is just as strong a link between childhood diabetes (in children that are not obese and typically healthy in every other way) and early solids.
SO - NOT BEFORE 6 MONTHS, NO MATTER WHAT!

I started my daughter on solids shortly after her 4 month "birthday". My friend has a 3 year old and a 2 year old (they are 16 months apart)and with her first one the pedi said to start him at 4 months. Between him and her daughter things changed and the same pedi said to start her daughter at 6 months. I think it all depends on when your child is ready, but "they" do recommend waiting until 6 months now-a-days.
Also, the best thing to start them on is rice cereal (or oatmeal if he has constipation problems) mixed with breast milk or formula.
Enjoy, it starts to get fun and messy now =o)

I started my oldest son on solids at about 4 months also (cause technically your son is closer to 4 months than 3). But I started him because he was taking an 8 oz bottle every 2 hours. The boy was hungry. I started him with the cereals, rice, oatmeal, etc. and by 6 months he was eating a full range of baby foods.

course this is also the child who had grown 6 inches in 4 months time.

I would recommend introducing foods slowly though. start with cereals and veggies before anything else.