confused about dairy

I know babies don't have cows milk till they are over 12 months, but what about cheese and yoghurt?

I've seen them in recipes I've got for 6 months plus what's the difference and is there anything I need to be aware of?

You can give a baby milk before 12 months, just not as a substitute for BM or formula. They can have some, but it's not a complete diet, IYGWIM? Last I heard it was dairy was ok from around 8 months, but seeing as I did BLW, I just introduced it slowly once I knew DD could tolerate it (she couldn't initially) and left it up to her to decide how much and what.

I was BF on demand, so it wasn't going to replace that.

My kids had cheese and yoghurt from roughly 7 or 8 months I think, and then milk in their cereal from about 11 months and then at 12 months they went from formula to milk(I BF DD till 7 months though).

But yep its fine to use those things in her food

Yip DS1 had dairy cooked in food from 7mo (so once he was eating more than "single food" purees and stuff) and that's when he first had cheese and yoghurt as well.

DS2 hasn't had any dairy yet but he has reflux which has always been exacerbated by me eating ANY form of dairy, particularly cheese, so we won't be giving him any cows milk until around 9 months when we've been advised to try him on plain yoghurt first.

The main thing is not to substitute cows milk for their main source of nutrition before 1yo. On cereal/porridge or in cooking or as cheese or yoghurt is fine unless you're worried about introducing dairy for some other reason (like allergies).