Is it ok to give baby only rice cereal for 2 months and no baby food?

When my mother had my brother and me in the 1940s the rule was no solids until baby was 10 months old. When I had mine in the late 1960s we were encouraged to give a small amount of baby cereal at 10 DAYS! Babies of that era thrived well, sat up early, were very alert early and walked early and no ill effects were noticed.

When I became a grandma in 2000 the advice was no solids until 6 months and that is how it remains I believe. In my era as a young mum the health visitors and midwives were told to tell us all that the worst person to listen to was our own mothers - how insulting. Fashions change - babies don't.

Advice is one thing, rules are another but every young mother needs a little advice from her own mother (considering that they reared up us until adulthood). There is too much interference from government and officialdom these days. Common sense is a pretty good thing to be guided by whilst still asking advice of those whose opinion you respect.

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The current recommendation is no solids before 6 months. If you feed too early, baby's gut is not yet developed, and there is a much greater risk of digestive problems later in life. Solids are also no nutritionally necessary until a year or more - before that, they are just for fun and for practice.

Baby gets all the nutrition they need from breast milk or formula.

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