A few days ago we explained why babies cannot drink cow's milk from which we drink adults. In explaining it, the message "no derivatives" is implied, but apparently that message is not so clear to the recipient.
I say it because on more than one occasion I have seen mothers respond with a long "Noooo", of those with that peculiar intonation that goes up and down as saying "not crazy" to the question "Do you give cow's milk?" and then explain that, for a snack, he gives his 6 or 7 month old baby a "petit suisse" (or similar) or a yogurt shake, as if coming in small containers were intended for babies. And not, until twelve months they should not be given custard, "petit suisses", yogurts or "actimeles".
Why shouldn't they take cow's milk derivatives?
For the same reason they cannot drink cow's milk, because they contain a large amount of protein, because these proteins are not modified and the kidneys of babies suffer to excrete the amount of protein, vitamins and minerals they carry, because of the risk of anemia and, in the case of custard, because in addition, that is nothing more than milk with sugar.
Better yogurt then?
I do not repeat, until the year they shouldn't take any of that. If I say that yogurt is better between custard and yogurt, it is because, at any age, a yogurt is healthier than custard, because yogurt is fermented milk (with its good bacteria) and custard is a milk sugar dessert.
They are also, and many people consider them good, baby yogurts, those that carry a baby in the lid or in the container and next to a number "2", which informs us that the yogurt is made with continuation milk.
I personally am not very friendly with these yogurts for several reasons. First, they are not cheap. Being a more complex formula than a normal yogurt, the price is higher. That one says that "for my son, I spend it", and it would be nice if they were more or less recommended, but it is not that it is a food to launch rockets. In addition, they have such an amount of protein that they do not differ too much from normal yogurts.
Already in the year 2009 we talked about this type of yogurt and we concluded that they were a little recommended food. After that entry, the manufacturers modified the formula, improved it and, even so, the OCU said the same thing, that despite the novelties they were still a little recommended food.
And after nine months?
There are professionals who recommend yogurts from nine months of age of the baby. This is because when evaluating the microhemorrhages produced by cow's milk and its derivatives in the intestine and stomach (it is a strong food for the baby and irritates the internal mucous membranes) it seems that after nine months much less happens than before Yogurts, because they are already fermented milk, seem to be digested better and, consequently, could be recommended before milk. In fact, if they ate them at six months nothing would happen to them. It's just that it makes no sense to give a dairy when that is what they have been taking for six months, and less if we take into account the amount of protein they carry.
Me, just in case, and because many children do not have enough iron left over (if we made an analysis to all the children, it would be sure that many anemias would be diagnosed), I recommend milk, yogurt, actimel, petit suisse and the whole dairy family that already occupy entire aisles in supermarkets after twelve months. And if you are interested in the health of your child, I recommend buying few custards and company and few "actimeles", which are nothing more than a story to get our money making us believe that we are giving breakfast to our defenses.
Then, when a mother or father feels the need to give their child under one year old a yogurt from the fridge to think twice. It will give you a dairy that you don't need and that it will greatly increase the amount of protein you eat. It is preferable that they eat other foods such as legumes, meat or fish, which also have proteins but they are accompanied by iron. Why not breastfeed or a bottle, failing that, which is also a dairy and knows for sure that it will not hurt?
