yogurt

When did you guys try out yogurt for your babies? I've seen the YoBaby yogurts that say you can try it from 6 months on, and I've also seen the yogurt juice for babies, too. My little guys are almost 7 months old and have been on level 1 solids for 5 weeks now. I'm wondering if it's too soon to try the yogurt or not. And did anyone's LO's experience tummy troubles from the yogurt? Mine both have reflux issues and we're on the Gentlease formula, so I've always assumed they at least some small dairy issues. I wonder if yogurt be too much for my little guys right now?

 

i started yogurt at 8 months and didn't have any problems with it. i was worried though because DD had a milk protein allergy and DS has always been on lactose free formula. i would probably wait a little longer if i was you, but that's just me.. and when you do start, it is much cheaper to get a big thing of plain whole milk yogurt and mix it with fruit puree than buying yobaby.

 

We started it around 9 months, along with cheese. We didn't have any problems with it, but since you have reason to suspect milk sensitivity, you might want to wait a little while. I agree that it's much cheaper to buy plain whole milk yogurt -- less sugar too. We mixed it with jarred fruit baby food. It tasted really sour to me, but the babies seemed to love it.

 

On our pediatricians advice we started yogurt at 6 months. Our little guys also had reflux issues, but we haven’t had any problems with yogurt. We first tried doing the plain yogurt route… but our boys hated it and would never eat more than one or two spoons full, then we switched to yobaby (again on the pediatricians advice)… our boys love the stuff!

 

I think we started around 7 months & never had any problems. It's one of the few foods that I'm still pretty much guaranteed that they will eat!

 

we started yogurt at around 8 months a couple weeks after I started them on solids.

one thing I would say is to make sure and be aware of the sugar content. we use the Stonyfield Organic Plain (cream on top) Yogurt. They love it - still today at 16 months old. If you want a "flavor" you can mix whatever else you want in with it... you can puree your own flavors... and not have the added sugar.

good luck, also the good yogurts have Live Bacteria in them that is great for the digestive system... yogurt is a little different than the rest of the dairy group in that regards. check with your pedi for questions.

 

I second this. I started my boys on yogurt at around 7-8 months, and just mix applesauce, "bananacado", jarred fruit baby food, etc. into it. It's soooo easy and it's cheaper than special baby yogurt!

 

We started yogurt around 8-9 months and the kids love it (and still do).

 

We started Yobaby after the 9 month pedi appointment. My girls had no issues with it and still love it to this day!

 

We started at 8 months, and we also had reflux issues. Yogurt and cheeses are a little easier to digest than regular milk, so some babies with milk issues are able to tolerate some yogurt and cheese.

 

Thanks to all for your responses about starting yogurt. 8-9 months seems to be the consensus which is when I was thinking would be a good time to start giving them yogurt. And it's good to know that folks with reflux issues didn't have a lot of problems with yogurt, too. Thanks again!