Trying to get my 7 month old used to the sippy cup. My daughter never drank water from birth. When we tried, she knew the difference between water and milk due to taste.
Any fluid must have flavour, she'll drink milk and likes to be spoon fed veggie and meat broths. I don't want to introduce juice until she drinks water.
I personally don't have a problem if she learns from a sippy cup with milk. I just want her to accept alternate fluids between milk feedings and don't want her hooked on juice. Especially when it hits summertime. If I give her diluted milk she'll drink it because there's taste.
Did anyone else has this problem?
2007-03-16 20:19:59 · 12 answers · asked by sweet_cincin 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
It is important to introduce water (we as adults are supposed to consume 12 glasses of water per day, aside from the other liquids we choose to consume.) but many children are not too receptive to this idea.
Try watering down the broths more and more until they are straight up water. It will take a week or two, but it should work! :D
You should not water down her milk. Do not add sugar or artificial flavorings to the water. That's what you are trying to avoid with delaying juice. Sugar is not needed.
2007-03-16 22:42:15 · answer #1 · answered by kikiandcorbinsmama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try putting a little spoon of Sugar in the water... I know some of you are saying Sugar ? but trust me I know first hand this works either that or some pancake syrup just enough to add a little flavor and then slowly decrease the amount you put in and soon she will be drinking plain water !!
Good Luck !!
2007-03-16 22:15:08 · answer #2 · answered by Kris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She is 7 months..only young...just let her have her milk..persist with water...:) hard to do..as milk has a sweeter taste..add some ice cubes so it is cold and easy to drink especially in summer..
when she goes to kinder..she will copy her peers and drink..
my 4 year old loves soft drinks juice etc..what I do is I dont buy any...:) only on special occasions..do we have them...
we have water at home..at dinner we have a jug of ice water..and the kids have that with their meal..
2007-03-16 23:59:47 · answer #3 · answered by dewdrops 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water the juice down gradually, daily until it's plain water.
Most formula already has water in it anyway so she won't be lacking anything essential. If you're too worried, get Pedialyte. I believe it comes in flavors now.
If she doesn't like it, don't force her. A lot of kids just plain don't like water.
This coming summer, when it gets hot, trust me, she'll drink some. But don't worry about it.
2007-03-16 21:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by TameBeast 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually it is ok to start a baby that age on milk.. slowly of course.. and dont water it down.. babies need the whole fats from homogonized milk.. and only start her off with one bottle of it a week, to help her stomach get used to the differences between that and formula...ask your physician or a health nurse. My daughter had the same problem to start with.. didnt want the water...
I just kept trying(without flavouring it) and eventually she started to drink it. Every dr and health nurse i have ever spoken to says to keep them mostly on formula at this age.. that is still their main form of nutrition and you dont want to take that away. And only a 4 oz bottle of water a day is supposed to suffice at this stage because of the water that is in the formula.
2007-03-16 21:20:17 · answer #5 · answered by gnomesnymph 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you may communicate over with the instructor. clarify your point of view. Are you particular that the college does not have some sort of coverage with regards to what infants are/n't allowed to deliver in the lunch container? i think of you would be extra effectual off getting her onto water in the long-term, in basic terms my opinion. Even nutrition plan cordial isn't that stable for you, it extremely is frequently in basic terms 5% fruit juices, ninety 5% chemical components or sugar
2016-10-02 06:41:06 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just put one or two teaspoons of juice in the water so it has a flavor but not really the same as juice.
2007-03-17 03:05:50 · answer #7 · answered by elaeblue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there's any problem.
for one thing, having taste is an important stimulus for digestion,
and for another thing, think about electrolytes and calories..
growing takes an enormous amount of food and energy.
I think you're correct to avoid fruit juice at her young age.
it's too concentrated and lacks all the ingredients of real fruit.
by all means offer her water from time to time, but if she's happy with milk and sampling solid food you're doing ok.
2007-03-16 20:50:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just keep giving her water and eventually she will drink it. If she refuses till you give her something else then dont just persisit with the water. She will soon figure out that she needs to drink the water before she gets anything else.
2007-03-16 20:42:24 · answer #9 · answered by Monkey Magic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't give her any milk, and i bet she will drink sum water. and dont listen to that other guy, there's a huge "problem"/difference between water and milk and juice and pop and whatever else u want to think of. u give her all that other stuff without gettin her to drink sum damn water, u will screw her up for life. try iv'ing the water into her body.
ppl that don't like water? hahahahahaha.
2007-03-16 20:28:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋