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Yes the most up to date advice is to wait until 6mo, but people still follow outdated advice, grandparents etc
There's no "rule" but there are recommendations. The recommendation is typically around 6 months, but not before 4 months. Some paeds recommend from 4 months with high allergy families too. Dr Golly has resources/recommendations on around 4 month starts. Personally, we've started tastes from 4 months. A teaspoon worth of starchy veg every few days. She's also showing most, if not all the recommend signs.
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Solid starts is a great resource. I think generally yes but we started giving our bub things a bit earlier than 6 months like a cold stick of carrot (things that couldn't break down) in one of the mesh teething feeders you can get from the chemist a) to help with teething and b) just to get him a little used to the concept of food, flavour, texture etc. So he wasn't really 'eating' anything, more exploring food if that makes sense.