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My best friend handed my second-born, who was already not the best nurser, a french fry when she was 4-1/2 months old. That was pretty much it for getting anything nutritious into the kid. I could have tried gastric lavage, I guess. Since I refused to make mealtimes stressful times, I just tried to sneak healthy foods into her. We made spinach omelets, sweet potato pancakes, etc etc, for this kid.

And now this. My pediatricians told me that they need cereal around age 4 months, so that's what I did with the first two. The third one nursed till she was almost 3, with no solids until almost age 1 and then she just moved on to slow introduction of table foods--and she's the one who never seems to get ear infections, bladder infections....Mainly I had just finally figured out that there was nothing Gerber could do that I couldn't do better and cheaper with a blender or a fork.

They were all doing their best, but it just goes to show that if there's one thing you can count on with the "practice" of medicine, it's that they'll get it wrong before they get it right.

This is one more study to drive people nuts! Ignore it and don't feel guilty for anything you've done.

This study will be refuted some day by another study and so on and so on.

Ignore most of them and use good common sense.