Making homemade baby yogurt is easy and inexpensive. It is a healthy and nourishing food for babies. Plus they usually love it. The probiotics in the yogurt can help boost baby's immune system, prevent diaper rash and allergies. In fact I've noticed that formula companies have started to add probiotics to infant formula.

In addition to probiotics, yogurt is also a great source of calcium and protein, especially important for a baby's growth and development.

The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests yogurt as a healthy food for babies as early as 8 months old. They also stress the importance of giving babies and toddlers whole milk. Any yogurt given to children up to age 3 should be whole milk yogurt. They need the fat for growth and development.

Yogurt can be given earlier than other dairy products because it's live cultures and enzymes make it much easier to digest. A good quality whole milk yogurt should be the first dairy food given to babies and toddlers.

The baby yogurt recipe below is a whole milk yogurt recipe. It can be made with organic milk if you'd like to give baby organic whole milk yogurt, which is expensive if you buy it at the store (about 4 dollars a pint).

Homemade yogurt is a great food for baby and you can save a lot of money if you make it yourself. Yobaby yogurt is a good quality baby yogurt, if you don't mind spending that much money. This is a nice brand because it contains five strains of live and active cultures and it is low in sugar.

You might want to try our pumpkin yogurt recipe too!

I use to mix homemade yogurt in with my little girl's rice cereal. Some people think that whole grains are difficult for babies to digest, so I felt like this might improve her digestion and also help her absorb more nutrients.

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