My pedi says about 9 months, but my sitter seems to think that he is ready now...she had 5 kids of her own, and has been sitting for 30+ years, so she probably has a good idea, but what have you done?
My LO gets rice cereal at lunch time and this week, I had his daycare provider start adding an ounce of squash puree to his rice cereal. Then I give him either straight puree or puree mixed with rice cereal in the evening. He still has his bottles, it doesn't replace a feeding.
We started 3 meals a day at 6 months per the recomendation of our pedi. Our boy was 21 lbs at 6 months so still got plenty of formula/bm with the meals.
we started at 7 months. he gets about 2-4 ounces of food and some puffs. Sometimes if we are out we don't do solids though. no big deal right now. He drinks at least 30 ounces also
We started lunch and dinner at 7.5 months and crawling started since DS seemed very hungry, taking over 30 oz of milk per day. He did great with the transition.
Re: When to start lunch???