Hold Off on Solid Foods Until Breastfed Baby Is 6 Months

One more reason to urge women to breast feed their children. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found another reason to keep those fancy baby spoons in the drawer until infants reach 6 months old. Babies who are breastfed – exclusively – for the first six months have fewer cases of pneumonia and ear infections than babies who were introduced to other foods between 4 and 6 months.