when can babies start eating yogurt?

Answer 1

According to this website, about 8 months old. It has a lot about nutrition for babies and toddlers.

Experts say parents and caregivers should include one or two fruits or vegetables at each meal. Ideally, everyone would eat at least as many, if not more servings.

Snacks are another way for toddlers, as well as others, to get fruits and vegetables. Yet FITS shows that the most common snacks for toddlers are cookies, crackers, chips, milk, water and fruit drink (not fruit juice). The majority of babies and toddlers over eight months old had at least one dessert or sweetened drink every day.

Snacks play a major role in the nutrition of young children, since their stomach capacity limits the amount of food they can eat at meals. Parents should limit high-calorie, low-nutrient snacks. Better choices include fruit, cheese, yogurt and low-sugar cereals.

More milk, less juice
Experts also urge parents to give toddlers milk to drink. FITS suggests that juice, fruit drink and carbonated drinks often displace milk in toddlers’ diets. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that juice be held from babies until they are six months old. From ages one to six years, children should be limited to a four to six ounce portion of juice a day. The AAP also stresses that whole milk should be served until age two.

Parents often give up too easily when offering new foods to their infants and toddlers. Studies repeatedly show that a new food should be served eight to fifteen times. With familiarity, children often accept a food.

Yet in this study only six to nine percent of caregivers offered a new food even six times. About 25 percent gave up after serving a new food only once or twice. Another 38 to 55 percent threw in the towel after three to five tries. For the long-term health of their children, caregivers should make an extra effort to introduce wholesome foods.

Answer 2

I would wait until 7 or 8 months to start feeding yogurt..

Answer 3

I started mine a month ago ( she is 11 months) I think you can start around 7-8 months but my daughter has some issues with milk so I chose to wait to see if she can handle the milk in the yogurt.

Answer 4

I started feeding my baby girl yogurt at nine months. The first time you give it to her....wait 24-36 hours before giving it to her again to make sure it agrees with her. ALSO....if your baby has a cold the dairy can make her phlegmy.....more stuffy. I mixed my daughter's yogurt with formula and baby food (fruit). This way it cuts the dairy a bit and also gives her some other nutrients she needs.

She LOVES yogurt though. She eats a gigantic bowl of it every morning for breakfast!!

Answer 5

6 to 8 months

Answer 6

i wouldn't start any earlier than 9 months. and I would try to start with a natural yogurt (as in natural ingredients only)

Answer 7

Hello,

I began feeding my twins yougurt at 6 months. Once I put them in their highchairs is when I began feeding them jar foods too.

Hope this helps you............. : - O