What yogurt can I give my baby?

I am so embarrassed to ask this hence incognito 🫣 but what kind of yogurt can I give my 6 month old? Greek? Natural? Full fat or 0% fat?? Are the children’s yogurts from supermarkets okay? Im assuming milk is okay at this age?

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I went for full fat sugar free yoghurt at that age :) some people say not to go for Greek yoghurt because it has too much protein in, but I imagine it's fine unless they're eating loads and loads of it.

Full fat plain natural or Greek yoghurt is recommended (NHS start for life website very helpful https://www.nhs.uk/start-for-life/baby/weaning/what-to-feed-your-baby/from-around-6-months/). You can add things like mashed fruits or 100% nut butters for flavour without having too much sugar. Milk is fine in cooking/cereal etc from this stage as long as baby is not allergic but not as a drink to replacement breast milk or formula until 1. Be wary of yoghurts marketed directly at children as they can contain so much sugar which is not ideal for this age.

@Charlotte oh no, I've been giving my 9 month old kiddies yogs since 6 months. Is this really bad?

@Leanne they aren’t the best thing purely because some of them can have a lot of sugar compared to other yoghurts (same for adult yoghurt tbh!), but as part of a balanced diet I wouldn’t worry. But worth shopping around if you wanted to swap :) little yeos do a no added sugar yoghurt range which my LG loves.

@Charlotte I'll have a look next time I go shopping. I normally either get Aldis small kiddies pot or petits folous x

@Leanne got no idea on the Aldi ones as I’ve never looked, but petit filous do no added sugar ones too. Honestly I was shocked when I looked at all the kiddy ‘friendly’ yoghurts.

Thank you everyone !!