I started Tia on solids at around 12 weeks... Now she was born 8lb 9oz, never lost any weight despite being bf'ed and was always and still is a very hungry child. I started her on baby rice and brest milk and she really thrived on it. She only developed a milk intolerance when she was 9 months due to contracting a rota virus, and she grew out of it and it had nothing to do with weaning early as rota virus are person to person transmitted.
Tia is now the size of a 9 year old...but as thin as a stick...and no she doesn't take after me at all
. She is just a large child... very tall and always hungry. Shes also very healthy.
I think the level of allergies has increased because the level of our hygine has increased. My mother was told to only sterilise bottles to 6 months...and nothing else was ever sterilised, only bottles...plus the cleaners available today weren't around. I stopped sterilising Tias bottles at 10 months because I caught her toddling round the garden popping stones in her mouth once
and she is very rarely ill with anything, must have been all that bacteria that her immune system got used to.
None of the government guidelines about 6 months were around when I had Tia, they told us 4 months so you can see that in 7 years the governments ideas have changed again....but Tia was soo very hungry all the time, I was having trouble coping up to 4 months. With my mother they were advised to put baby rice in bottles and feed it to the babies as early as one month to settle them, so weaning as we know it happened really early back then yet there were less allergies.
If your baby is large and hungry, then you could try one small meal...of very diluted baby rice with lots of breast milk. Its very neutral food and will probably fill your baby up nicely for a while.
