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David Laurino Your own mother may have been advised to start with solid foods prior to four months, but today there's evidence that starting solids so soon may not be good for new babies. Read on and ask your baby's doctor to help decide the right time to start your baby on solid foods.

3 Good Reasons to Wait
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In order to start instilling the use of Spanish, Flores sought a very talented nanny who agreed to only speak Spanish to her young charge. "A lot of the books we read to my daughter are in English, and television is also in English," she says. "We knew she would pick the language up regardless, so we wanted to do something where she would feel almost forced to speak Spanish and keep that going. She knows who she needs to speak to in what language, and with her babysitter she knows she has no choice [but to speak Spanish]."

Now, Flores is amazed at how well her daughter speaks both English and Spanish at the ripe old age of almost 3. "She pronounces things better in English than in Spanish," says Flores. "She picked up the English faster than the Spanish, but she is definitely a conversational speaker – as much as a child can get who's not quite 3."