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I'll never be able to look at a yogurt container again without first thinking of my daughter. When she was an infant, yogurt was her favorite food. For a while, it was the only protein besides her breastmilk and formula she would eat.
Her favorite place to eat yogurt was not at the table but on the doormat that I keep inside the kitchen door. She'd just plop down with her baby spoon and dig in right out of the large-size container. She didn't want a bowl to interfere with her yogurt-eating experience.
I remember coming back from a business trip that required me to be away from home for several days for the very first time since she was born. I was miserable, I missed her and my son so much.
After the car dropped me off and I bounded up our back steps with suitcase in hand, I looked through the kitchen door window. The first thing I see is my little baby girl with her hair in a high ponytail sitting on that floor mat eating her yogurt, half of it everywhere else besides her mouth. What a mess! I gave her the biggest hug a mother has ever given a child, and then I took a shower to rinse off all the yogurt.
Our own mothers never gave us yogurt when we were infants. It wasn't as popular back then as it is today. It's funny how yogurt has become a staple in many a baby's eating repertoire. I always loved serving it because it's ...
- Soft
- High in calcium, for growing bones
- High in protein
- Contains beneficial bacteria
- Portable
- Thick and sticky and doesn't fall off the spoon too easily so baby isn't frustrated
- Mixable -- you can add pureed fruit and endless other foods to it for a well rounded meal
Some research shows that eating yogurt may prevent the flu because of the probiotics.
Does your baby eat yogurt? How do you serve it -- plain, mixed with fruit, another way?
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Lydia ate yogurt any way she could get it. Anfd still does as a toddler! I love the yo baby mixed meals for her. It's a fruit, veggie and yogurt all together (very tasty, too) and a good side dish to her beloved chicken.
Yogurt as an introductory food? Yeah, not really wise. It's not recommended until at least 9-12 months, and certainly not any of the nasty Gerber yogurt that certainly encouraged this post (note it's second ingredient is sugar). Not all yogurt contains beneficial bacteria either. IF you choose to feed a younger baby yogurt (it's not as good for them as you'd think), at least buy healthy, low-sugar yogurt with natural acidophilus.
(I hate when the Buzz is advertising.)
yogurt was really good for my niece before she had teeth! It was really easy for her to eat and she loved it!
we just bought the new Gerber yogurts and my baby loves them for breckfast i give her half a contaner and and baby cereal i like how they are cheaper then the other baby yogurts out there
Hi, resident dairy hater here. ;)
But seriously I just wanted to point out that yogurt is said to be good for the flu because of probiotics that it usually contains, not because of anything that has to do with the actual yogurt itself. Probiotics can be found in many other foods or taken in pill form. The yogurt itself (and all other dairy products) can actually worsen and even cause excess mucous, stuffy nose, cough, and other flu/cold symptoms.
aurorabunny, that's a great point. I LOVE dairy, but when I'm having sinus issues I have to avoid it, since it makes mucous thicker and can even give me sinus infections. We all take pill-form probiotics (my 5 year old has chewable ones I'm sure you could grind), and I take an acidophilus pill too.
my girl loves yogurt! my mom bougth a different yorgurt the other day and it was thick and deliciousand i loved it, i'm about to switch to that brand if i can find it, very grown up yorgurt lol. any yogurt that had fruit my daugther will eat so no problems on that matter =-D
I absolutely LOVE yogurt; especially being celiac myself and avoiding wheat products that can cause reactions for me that are far uglier than a bit of diaper rash.
My 8mo is a HUGE fan of gerbers yogurt melts - although still being primarily breastfed anything seasoned or sweetened too much she literally spits back at you - like a camel.
Yogurt is one of the few things she WILL eat and aside from boob there are blessed few.