Note to Kathleen first: I remembered, I remembered! Jack says, << The rules of a little at a time, starting with rice cereal, one food a week were developed when physicians (wrongly) were advising mothers to start solids at 2 to 6 weeks of age. By the time they were 6 months of age they were eating sushi and steak tartar. >> I remember the steak tartar well at age 6 months....having been given nice solids by 2 weeks.... My mother would have given cereal in the womb if she could have gotten it there! Though she "tried" to breastfeed me, she truly learned how to breastfeed from the Aussies when we lived there for two years. So my 2 sisters and 1 brother are all smarter, healthier and thinner than I am. I suspect every first baby that comes along (in the US of A, at least) gets rice cereal mixed with breastmilk (for the pure in heart) or formula (for the -----) as the first solid. Third babies get Pizza Hut Pizza crust. And live to tell about it. Right Timothy? Jan Barger