When can LO have cheese?

knelli · December 2010

Is it 8 or 9 months? And yogurt?

I can't remember and we don't see the pedi for almost a month.

blondie223 · December 2010

I gave DD cheese and she had no problems with it and really liked it at around 8 months. I thought I read that they can have yogurt starting around 6 months. I go to the pedi next week I can find out for sure then.

knelli · December 2010

Thank you.

Our pedi seems a little cautious about some things, and totally relaxed on others. She said no yogurt or cheese at 6 months but we could start meats (FWIW we didn't do any solids until 6 months... which is why I thought it was strange that she said meats could be one of her first foods)

blondie223 · December 2010

We didn't do any solids until 6 months also. Our pedi was just more cautious about peanut butter and honey. She said we could pretty much give DD what we wanted. She told me her daughter wouldn't even do baby food and went straight to table food. I haven't tried yogurt yet. She has had those yogurt melts and she does fine with those. I've tried meats like chicken and turkey a couple of times, but she doesn't seem to interested in them yet. She likes the side dishes.

knelli · December 2010

I think we are going to try cheese today then.

DD is totally not into purees anymore. She wants to pick everything up and feed herself so we have been letting her do that. She has had some of the meat and veggies that we eat for dinner... this week seh has had grilled chicken, pot roast and spaghetti, along with tons of veggies.

I was just trying to think of something for snacks or lunches instead of what we have for dinners, and instead of cheerios.