Does it matter if he is not on solids at 6 months?

[summer rain]

Funny, my Vin is a little baby and stopped putting on weight at 4 months and dropped from 40th to 20th centiles. The HV's advice? Baby rice...

HVs will advise early weaning onto 'magical' baby rice if your baby is small, large or just average; they will always have a list of reasons as to why you need to do it lol. Baby rice has less calories, fat and vitamins than breastmilk/formula, it is filling for some babies but it is just filling them with empty carbs; which could have long term detrimental effects on their health.

 

[ILoveShoes]

My LO was 21lbs by the time he was 6 months old. We didn't bother with the baby rice, and started BLW a few days before he turned 6 months.
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[Mum2b_Claire]

Funny, my Vin is a little baby and stopped putting on weight at 4 months and dropped from 40th to 20th centiles. The HV's advice? Baby rice...

HVs will advise early weaning onto 'magical' baby rice if your baby is small, large or just average; they will always have a list of reasons as to why you need to do it lol. Baby rice has less calories, fat and vitamins than breastmilk/formula, it is filling for some babies but it is just filling them with empty carbs; which could have long term detrimental effects on their health.

Yeah, have you noticed, that whatever the 'problem' is, it can be solved by baby rice?