Yogurt for 8 month old

[vmars]

Stop and shop has stoney field whole milk yogurt. We mix a little bit of fruit puree in it to sweeten it

[purplecow0206]

Oct 30, 2014 13:01:26 GMT -5 natablue said:

how much yogurt do you feed? like a single container's worth? what if you buy in the big tubs? Dumb question, I know.

We buy the big tub and have these small containers (maybe 3 oz?) that we use for the DC or if we'll be out and I want to bring yogurt for her. Honestly, A doesn't usually finish 4 oz of yogurt in one sitting anyway.

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Oct 30, 2014 11:25:38 GMT -5 Birdie said:

Oct 30, 2014 11:23:19 GMT -5 wavepool said:

I posted recently about finding some fattier plain yogurt at ALDI in their Simply Nature brand. It's hard to find Greek yogurt with fat and without a ton of sugar!

Oh thanks! We unfortunately don't have a Whole Foods, Trader Joes, or any type of place that might carry specialty items. I did just remember we do have a Fresh Market though so I might try there. And we have an ALDI!

I found Fage 2% Greek Plain at Fresh Market and bought the small single-serve container.  We have all those other stores but for some reason we happened to be in Fresh Market the day I remembered to look for yogurt for DD.  I didn't buy it at Trader Joe's because I think the full fat plain is only in the large containers and I only wanted a small container for our first try.  She won't eat more than half, I know it.  I plan to mix it with some fruit puree.

If only I could remember to give it to her at lunch one of these days to actually try it.  D'oh.  

I also bought my first container of puffs.  

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Oct 30, 2014 13:01:26 GMT -5 natablue said:

how much yogurt do you feed? like a single container's worth? what if you buy in the big tubs? Dumb question, I know.

At that age we would send him to school with the baby bullet containers full of yogurt. So a few ounces at a serving, however much he wanted.

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We started yogurt around 9 months. We've always used Stonyfield whole milk plain. It only comes in quart size, but we easily eat that in a week. It's at every grocery store here. Container is red, looks like this.

[pescalita]

We do full fat plan greek, they have this brand at our market which we all prefer the flavor of: voskos.com/

My kids devour yogurt. We start with adding fruit puree and cereal, and A has his with granola now. It's such a weekend staple that he refuses to call it "yogurt"; it's "lunch".

[osulori]

AJ goes through Stonyfield Yotoddler and store brand fruity greek yogurt like it's his job. I need to start getting the plain stuff and just mixing fruit or other stuff in though. Right now yogurt is one of the few things he'll eat consistently (F YOU MOLARS AND CANINES) so I'm not going to mess with a good thing for a little bit.

[mae141]

Oct 30, 2014 13:01:26 GMT -5 natablue said:

how much yogurt do you feed? like a single container's worth? what if you buy in the big tubs? Dumb question, I know.

We buy the big containers, and I put some in the small gladware cups and send to daycare that way. DD is 10 months. 

[mae141]

Oct 30, 2014 15:30:10 GMT -5 tryingtobehappy said:

So do we not want to avoid dairy under 1 year? Yogurt, cheese ....all is ok?

We don't want to replace more nutritious BM/formula with cow milk. Yogurt and cheese are fine. 

[kategm]

I do the YoBaby individual cups. DD loves the pear flavor. We tried plain Greek yogurt and she refused. I can't blame her.

[GotWine]

We did the stonyfield whole milk plain yogurt with a banana mushed in starting at around 8 months if I remember correctly. She ate that until she was almost 2, now I just send a frozen stonyfield yogurt tube in her lunchbox every day. She thinks she's eating ice cream!!

[kershnic]

My babies first food was fage yogurt. Sometimes our target has it. Sometimes my wife brings it from a grocery store in hipsterville where she works. I may be a hypocrite because I'm addicted to diet Pepsi, but artificial sweeteners are a line in the sand for me for the babies.

[Birdie]

Oct 30, 2014 15:30:10 GMT -5 tryingtobehappy said:

So do we not want to avoid dairy under 1 year? Yogurt, cheese ....all is ok?

Milk before a year isn't good because kids can basically chug it and fill up on it instead of formula/breastmilk. Yogurt is fine because the amount they would consume would not prevent them from still getting enough formula/breastmilk.

[mellimel19]

I feed DD Face in whole milk/plain/unsweetened

[Birdie]

Oct 30, 2014 20:38:42 GMT -5 tryingtobehappy said:

4 years ago my doctor told me that babies can't digest milk proteins in any form. I haven't talked about it with the new baby. Probably things changed...

This would be true for babies with a milk allergy, but not true for all babies. Milk protein is the basis in most commercial formulas and babies would consume milk protein through breastmilk if mommy wasn't avoiding dairy.

[spk926]

Oct 30, 2014 13:27:26 GMT -5 @supergreen said:

We started yogurt around 9 months. We've always used Stonyfield whole milk plain. It only comes in quart size, but we easily eat that in a week. It's at every grocery store here. Container is red, looks like this.

Yep this is what DD eats too. Tastes horrible to me but she loves it. No grocery stores (even Walmart) carry it around here except Super Targets.

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[Birdie]

Oct 30, 2014 22:20:54 GMT -5 tryingtobehappy said:

Oct 30, 2014 21:17:51 GMT -5 Birdie said:

This would be true for babies with a milk allergy, but not true for all babies. Milk protein is the basis in most commercial formulas and babies would consume milk protein through breastmilk if mommy wasn't avoiding dairy.

Aren't the milk proteins in formula broken down for easy digestion?
But either way, if all of your babies are doing ok I guess no harm in trying and see if ds tolerates it. We have no family history

No idea. Just going off of what Google tells me I don't plan on giving him a lot of dairy until he's 12 months old, but I'd like to try a little yogurt as a possible morning snack.

[lolo]

We do full fat, plain Brown Cow yogurt, which I buy at Whole Foods. I am sorry that WF isn't an option because it is great for things like that.

Usually she gets 1/3-1/2c yogurt plus fruit (usually berries) plus cinnamon. It is quite tasty; she eats it for breakfast most mornings and is extremely excited to do so. She does a dance around the kitchen chanting: 'gogurt! berries! high chair! UP!' Lol.

[mlt]

I would give it a try. I have plain, unflavored Greek yogurt at my grocery store. Don't know about fat content. I would start with pasta and stuff around that age too. The little elbow macaronies are nice because they can practice the pincher grasp!

[ringstrue]

Look for the big tubs in the bottom area of the yogurt section. That's the plain stuff.

Yogurt for a baby under 1 is just "practice food". It's not meant to replace a meal- just a treat and to "train" them. One big tub will last a while.

Don't add honey for a baby under 1. That's not something to be breezy about.

Nothing magical happens on a babies 1st birthday to make them digest cow milk. Formula is altered cow milk (or soy) so while it can kill, say, a newborn baby if they are fed straight cow milk, by the time they are 9+ Months old they can have cow milk just fine in most cases. It's best to transition slowly, do that's why they say just yogurt or whatever until a year.

I started transitioning DD to cow milk from breast milk at 10 months. So like the first week she got 2oz of cow milk mixed in her bottles for daycare, and by her first bday she was all cow milk for daycare and I stopped pumping.

[xojo1]

Yogurt was one of E's first foods at 6m. She eats it up. We give her Stoneyfield Whole Milk Plain. I would be ok giving her their YoBaby version as well, which is flavored. She's 8.5m now.

[xojo1]

Oct 30, 2014 13:11:51 GMT -5 purplecow0206 said:

Oct 30, 2014 13:01:26 GMT -5 natablue said:

how much yogurt do you feed? like a single container's worth? what if you buy in the big tubs? Dumb question, I know.

We buy the big tub and have these small containers (maybe 3 oz?) that we use for the DC or if we'll be out and I want to bring yogurt for her. Honestly, A doesn't usually finish 4 oz of yogurt in one sitting anyway.

We buy the big tub as well since we all eat it. We portion E's servings in one of the 1/2c Gladware bowls. She will eat an entire cup, but I usually fill it about 75% full.

[xojo1]

Oct 30, 2014 11:04:31 GMT -5 ohgillian said:

It's v. hard but not impossible to find what I personally call "normal" yogurt (full fat unsweetened); trader joe's has some. I would not feed an infant a low fat or sweetened kind, but that's just me.

I don't find this to be true here so it must really vary. I can find full fat, unsweetened yogurt at every grocery store I have visited locally. Target even sells it here. You may have to buy the big tub, but it's there.

[tcu2003]

We do the big tubs of organic, whole milk, plain yogurt. If you have a Sprouts near you, they carry several types. I purée and freeze fruit combos in ice cube trays, and keep the cubes in ziploc bags in the freezer to mix with yogurt for flavor.

[ohgillian]

Oct 31, 2014 13:28:08 GMT -5 xojo1 said:

Oct 30, 2014 11:04:31 GMT -5 ohgillian said:

It's v. hard but not impossible to find what I personally call "normal" yogurt (full fat unsweetened); trader joe's has some. I would not feed an infant a low fat or sweetened kind, but that's just me.

I don't find this to be true here so it must really vary. I can find full fat, unsweetened yogurt at every grocery store I have visited locally. Target even sells it here. You may have to buy the big tub, but it's there.

I live in the wrong place, apparently. Sounds heavenly wherever you are!