Introducing cheese and yogurt?

ML* · January 2009

We're right at 8 months this week. I read that this is a good time for cheese and yogurt but what kind should I start with? Specifially, should I be giving her plain yogurt without the fruit and just mix it with her purees? And should I be giving her only things made with whole milk; is low fat cheese and yogurt a no no?

bgsugrad · January 2009

Our pedi recommended waiting until about 9 months for cheese and yogurt and in very small quantities. She explained to us that their digestive systems are just no ready for a lot of milk products until after 12 months...she recommended the yo baby yogurt - which has fruit flavors. I am afraid to give her anything with aspartame (which most low fat yogurts have). As far as cheese, we give regular shredded or american cheese slices (she seemes to really like the white american) HTH!

JenRose05 · January 2009

we started yogurt and cheese at 8 months as well... we use only yobaby yogurt and they suggest using colby cheese or white cheeses? I dont know why exactly

sistrkate · January 2009

We started both yogurt and cheese between 9 - 9.5 months. Our pedi recommended either the Yo Baby yogurt, or plain vanilla regular yogurt, and not the low-fat kind. Babies need the fat in dairy when they are young (hence giving them whole milk at 12 months instead of 2% or skim). Yo Baby has some great flavors and is digested easily.

We started out with string cheese when we introduced cheese. Kroger carries the "Cow Tales" brand and that's what we use. Sometimes we get the plain white and other times the marbled kind, we just alternate between them. Now that DS is over a year, he has branched out to other types of cheese but he prefers the string cheese variety the best.

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