What foods are still off limits at 11 months old? a year?

Question

What foods are still off limits at 11 months old? A year old? I know now cows milk until one year- but what about yogurt and cheese? What are the limits? (obviously not high fat items) Also once converting to cows milk- do you get vitamin D? whole milk?

Answer 1

Nuts and peanut butter (a supposed high allergen and choking hazards)
Honey has a risk of bottulism spores that adults can handle but infants can't

Tomatoes and citrus, higher acid contents could cause allergies and/or diaper rahses or regular skin rashes.

Milk products are ok, I think even milk is ok, they mainly precaution against it because they don't want people replacing breast milk or formula too early.

Also when you say "high fat" is off limits it depends on what you're talking about. Obviously things like french fries and stuff should be, but when you're feeding you child foods like dairy you should feed them the whole milk products not low fat or fat free.

www.wholesomebabyfood.com

is a great resource, it's for making your own baby foods, but even if you don't do that, it's still very informative.

Answer 2

Yogurt and cheese are made from cow's milk; but I think that at 11 months it's probably OK to introduce these little by little into your child's diet along with cow's milk - providing, of course, that there is no allergy to milk or other dairy products. Vitamin D is in cow's milk and is abundant in many other food sources.

Answer 3

What you give your infant depends on your family history of food allergies.


In regards to what kind of milk, that's up to you. Now a days all milk is fortified with the same vitamins. The only difference is the fat content. If you have a thin baby, whole milk is fine! If your baby's doctor is worried about weight, he/she may recomend 2% or fat-free.

Answer 4

If there's no history of allergies? Healthy, breastfed baby? Not much is off limits (barring choking hazards)...

"Experts seek to debunk baby food myths
Little evidence supports ‘any particular way of doing things’

... experts say 6-month-olds can eat many of the same things their parents do..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9646449

Go with vitamin-d fortified whole milk, and you likely don't need to hold off until exactly one year. See:

"Ready for Cow's Milk?
How to gauge the right age"

http://www.todaysparent.com/food/baby/article.jsp?content=20051006_153604_6200&page=1

Answer 5

I'm decently certain that you aren't supposed to give honey until at LEAST one year old.

Answer 6

I found this link VERY helpful

I hope this helps

http://www.babycenter.com/0_age-by-age-guide-to-feeding-your-baby_1400680.bc