When can you give baby yogurt

Debra4869 · September 2012

What age is yogurt okay to start? Should i be starting with plain yogurt or are the fruit kinds okay?

harmonicbabe26 · September 2012

6 months. Start with plain whole milk and mix it with fruit yourself instead of buying the pre mixed kind.

MollySm · September 2012

The premixed kind has a lot of extra sugar, so it's good to always do the plain kind with fruit mixed in. We introduced it around 6 months.

baloneydisc · September 2012

We were told to wait on yogurt until 9mo.

lasfresasrojas · September 2012

We are waiting until she is 1 yr.

If babies stomachs can't digest cow's milk, which is why you aren't supposed to give it to them until they are at least 1 yr, why would I give her yogurt that contains cow's milk?

MollySm · September 2012

I think the idea is the milk in yogurt is already broken down part way, so babies have less work to do to digest yogurt as compared with straight milk..

aboynamedbarry · September 2012

MollySm:
I think the idea is the milk in yogurt is already broken down part way, so babies have less work to do to digest yogurt as compared with straight milk..

this is right. and I concur with all the other pp's who said plain whole milk yogurt mixed with fruit, a lot less sugar, my dd loves it

harmonicbabe26 · September 2012

lasfresasrojas:

We are waiting until she is 1 yr.

If babies stomachs can't digest cow's milk, which is why you aren't supposed to give it to them until they are at least 1 yr, why would I give her yogurt that contains cow's milk?

What MollySm said.

A friend of mine gives her 18 month daughter regular whole milk BUT lactose free yogurt. Which to me is completely ridiculous... Should do totally the reverse if she's so scared about lactose... but hey, it's her kid and her business...

cmytutu · September 2012

We started at 4 months. He did fine.

RizziB · September 2012

I waited until 9 months (and after DD's 9 month check-up) to give her yogurt. Like some of the PPs, I'm giving her plain whole milk yogurt. I bought some yo-baby yogurt before I realized that it has added sugar so I mix a little bit of it with the plain whole milk yogurt to give it a little more flavor.

frasey · September 2012

lasfresasrojas:
We are waiting until she is 1 yr.
If babies stomachs can't digest cow's milk, which is why you aren't supposed to give it to them until they are at least 1 yr, why would I give her yogurt that contains cow's milk?

It also has to do with volume - DD has like, an ounce of yogurt. Docs would be concerned with a baby drinking several ounces of milk, but they wouldn't freak out if a baby drank 1 ounce of milk.

And our babies have the same name! so cool.

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