Can I Give My Baby Yogurt?

Antibiotics definitely gave my son diarrhea, but instead of yogurt we used Culturelle (http://www.culturelle.com/). It was recommended by our pediatrician because our son didn't tolerate yogurt well in the past. We open one capsule/day and mix the powder in with his bottle (but the bottle can't be hot - we only warm his bottles really slightly) or you could probably mix it in with his cereal (again, can't be hot). It's a probiotic so it works similarly to the cultures in yogurt. We also found switching to soy formula for a few days helped with the diarrhea.

You'll probably want to give your pedi a call to find out more. Good luck!

i would wait on the dairy products until your pediatrician ok's it. If your baby isnt even on cereal yet i definately dont think you should. i think after 6 months or so and after your baby is accustomed to being on jar food i think it will be okay! but i would stay away from the yogurt for now! she's still a bit too tiny!!

Is your son acting ready for oral food? and is the formula or breast milk holding him or does he continue to act "hungry"? that is when you feed food. not when the doctor says. it is amazing in the old days that when there were not doctors around to tell people when to start a baby on food, they still managed to do it.
you don't need your doctors permission to give your baby food, pro-biotics, or yogurt.
yes, there are studies that point to delaying giving milk products to children with a family history of asthma until after one year old, yes there are studies about food allergies and babies etc. but they are just guidelines.
basically, when the baby is ready for food he will tell you. you will know.
all mine were breast fed, and they all started on cereal at 3 months. they were all 9lb babies and were starving. my third one nursed every 2 hours for 45 minutes, that left an hour and fifteen minutes to do other things like sleep, or deal with my two other sons, 5 and 3. and he did that for 6 weeks. until i supplemented him with formula. and my milk gushed like a cow and was thick and creamy. he was just hungry.
the second thing i started my babies on was yogurt in with the cereal to give them some protein to hold them over. it takes longer to digest the protein then the carbs from the cereal, so therefore they stayed fuller longer. it was the best thing i ever did. they are extremely healthy kids. seldom even get sick, like colds etc., as babies or now. and i attribute it to getting lots of good healthy bacteria at a young age.
I would start the baby off with yogurt if he develops diarrhea. you can get a low sugar kind, you can get organic from the health food store, there are alot of choices. make sure there are as few ingredients as possible, no chunks of fruit and that it has active cultures. you can also buy straight cultures at the health food store and add to a bottle. or you can get any number of probiotics to add to his bottle or food when you start him on food. the probiotics are bacteria, so a good number of them will be killed off by the antibiotics anyway. mainly you are giving them to re-inoculate the gut with the good bacteria killed off by the antibiotics, so the bad bacteria that are not susceptible to the antibiotic do not overgrow and cause diarrhea. basically, it is a system of checks and balances in the gut. and the antibiotics throw off the balance. the yogurt or other pro-biotics will also help prevent a secondary yeast infrection also. and help maintain the balance in the gut.
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I would not give yogurt till 6 months. You can get probiotics at any health food store and they work waaay better than yogurt for such a young baby.

To help prevent diarrhea, I'd trying mixing a probiotic in his cereal and/or bottle if he takes one. Ask your pedi. for recommendations on giving probiotics. We got ours at a Health Food Mart.

I went through the same thing recently with my 5 month old, but the pedi. told me to give her yobaby yogurt. She loves it!

my son has a ear infecton, and the antibiotic he is on causes diariah, he is 3 1/3 mos. It is fine for your baby to eat it while he/she is on the antibiotic. Just don't introduce any other new foods during that time. And I also think it may be fine to start your baby on some solids. Start with veggies then meats b/c they are bland, do not add anything extra to them, and then the fruits b/c they are sweet. We don't want our babes turning down there veggies! Oh, get the Yo Baby Yogurt!!!!

My daughter is 10 months old now and she kind of started everything a little early but the dannon danimals yogurt should be ok. Just keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't start to develop a rash around his mouth where the food was because some babies are allergic. Don't worry about it too much though, just make sure the yogurt you give him has no chunks of fruit that he could choke on. He's going to have a hard time with a spoon at first but he'll eat what he needs and stop himself. That's what my daughter, nieces, and cousin did. Good luck!

I would check with your pediatrician first. If he/she approves yogurt, I'd stick with the YoBaby kind or at least organics. He's too young to have all the other additives added to his diet.

Hope he's feeling better!

You should be able to give him the Yo-baby.