Study: ‘Fussy’ Babies Get Solids Sooner

Mothers may start solid foods earlier with “fussy” babies, a new study suggests. The study included more than 200 mothers. All were low-income black women having their first baby. Children’s doctors recommend giving babies only breast milk for the first 4 to 6 months of life. But in the study, only 25% got any breast milk by age 3 months. About 70% were also getting solid foods or juice. Babies that mothers described as “fussy” were twice as likely to get solid foods early as other babies. So were the children of obese mothers. Depressed women were more likely to give their babies juice. The journal Pediatrics published the study online. Fox News reported on the research January 10.