This "fact" is often spread through speech specialists, which surprised me.
I was told, at a LLL Meeting by a speech therapist, that unless a baby was
eating solid foods at x months (well before 6 months), he would *never*
learn to transfer food from the front to the back of the mouth. Hmmm...

Kind of like the advice given to sling mamas, "If you don't put your baby
down, he will never learn how to crawl/walk." If there is something wrong
with the baby, perhaps he won't learn how to transfer food, walk or crawl.
But, if the baby is developmentally ok? How can you stop the learning
process? I sometimes wished carrying had prevented walking, because my 3rd
baby walked at 9 months despite being in a sling 24 hours/day - nothing like
a running baby without the sense to stop!

Best wishes,
Sam



<<Jumping in here to agree with Magda about holding off on slogans, and this
one in particular, having suffered through mothers being bullied to
introduce solids before this dangerously brief window snaps shut
permanently, after which time the child will never, ever be able to ingest
anything requiring chewing.>>

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