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It is recommended to start from 6 months.  It's best to start with Rice Cereal as this is the food least likely to cause allergies.  I mixed my baby's rice cereal with breast milk and she loved it.  When introducing food, it's best to introduce one thing at a time so if there are allergies or reactions of any kind you can more likely find the culprit fairly quickly.  With vegetables, I was told to give vegetables before fruit and to give potato first.  Again, potato is the least likely to cause any reactions.  After a week, keep the potato but add something to it like pumpkin.  Do that for a week before adding anything else to it.  Good luck with it, and I think there was an advice article on this but I didn't read it and can't recall the name of it  but it's in Advice somewhere.  Enjoy your baby's first foods.

The World Health Organisation recommends babies be exclusively BF until they are at least 6 mths. there are a few signs that your baby is ready. Sitting unaided, losing tongue poke reflex, no longer satisfied with BF even after offering extra feeds.
I started off with rice cereal as this is the least likely to cause a reaction. I started with a teaspoon each morning and worked up to 1/2 a cup. I always offered about 20 minutes after a BF. I then went on to add thing of rice cereal at lunch while introducing apple or pear or some other fruit at breakfast. I was always told to only try one food every 3-5 days to check for reactions before trying something different.  I tried vegies after the fruit. I always tried a new food at breakfast or lunchtime as no-one wants to spend the night in the ER from an allergic reaction, its easier to cope with it during the day. After a couple of mths both my boys would be trying a wide range of fruit and vegies so we then added other things like meat, rice and pasta and started other cereals for breakfast.
Breastmilk (or formula) is still the most important part of a babies diet up until around one so you don't really replace a BF with a meal more like a little added extra slowly building up until they are one. try solids after BF until around 9-10 mths and then offer it before hand and top up with a BF after.
With my eldest I was told to put him on solids at 5 mths  (stupid advice that I shouldn't have listened to) but with my second I followed his cues and he started around 7mths.
Good luck and enjoy the mess!!!

both my kids were bottle fed (alex at 6 weeks and charlie at 4 months), but at 3 and a bit months alex was on the rice cereal with the formular. Charlie was 5 months.
Alex didn't like "real" food we had to buy the jars but charlie was the opposite she grabed our food i think it was carrot and munched on that so we started feeding her cereal in the morning and what we had at tea. during the day Charlie was a rusk person and loved them and Alex was a arrowroot bickie boy.

from what i remember start on one thing and keep it at that for awhile to make sure there is no alergic reaction. (to be honest i never did) i gave them food as they wanted or the bottle didnt fill them

the way that i did it with charlie was i started him off with b'fast and i did that for a week so that he could get use to it and then i went lunch for a week  and the same again with dinner but each time in interduced something i would try it for a week and then leave a week inbetween

this was the way that the pedie and health nurse told me to do it charlie was also 4months at the time and suffering from reflux

hope this helps