When is it ok to give baby sour cream?

Kaia

Completely by accident, I discovered that my kid LOVES him some sour cream! I mean he was practically jumping out of his skin to get some. I was worried about giving him too much though because I'm not sure it's ok for him to have it. Yogurt is supposed to be ok to introduce from 6-8 months, but I don't see sour cream on any of the solid introduction charts (probably because most normal people don't feed their kids sour cream). It's similar to yogurt, so is it ok around the same age?

CurlyCurlies

Since the taste is basically the same, could you just buy some plain yogurt and keep that as a treat for him? In addition to the taste and calcium, in the yogurt he will also get the probiotic benefit.

RedCatWaves

I'd give it to him after 6 months, but yogurt probably would be a better choice because of the live cultures. Plain yogurt has a similar tart taste as sour cream. If he likes tart, better to get him used to plain yogurt anyway, rather than all the sugary stuff.

Kaia

I'll get some plain yogurt then and try it. He got one tiny little taste of it at the restaurant last night and the only way I could keep him for screaming his head off was to give him more. I didn't want to give him too much, so we finished eating as fast as possible and hauled butt out of there.

Zinnia

There are some cultured sour creams available. The brand names escape me at the moment, but I think they are all organic. Very yummy. I also buy cultured butter.

ETA: Nancy's and Organic Valley are two brands with cultured sour cream.

subbrock

my baby girl had sour cream for the first time around that age and shes alive to tell the tale. she hates it though. her dad liked to feed her things that shes not "supposed" to have yet so who knows all the things shes tried unbeknownst to me.

but as far as yogurt goes, we've been giving majerle yobaby yogurt since she was around 5 or 6 months and she loves it. LOVES it.

Kaia

I got some plain YoBaby organic yogurt, and he loves it. I have a wonderful picture of him with the yogurt all over him that I need to upload from my camera. He was insisting on "helping" feed himself, so I let him hold the cup. Not pretty! :laughing7: