My boy seems to love the water cold maybe cuz the teething? But itās always bottled water or brita filter type water
@Hannah karo syrup is not recommended for babies under 1. it's the same as honey and molasses, and it's really not good them.
trust me i been there. my little girl haaated water, and she needed it at the time we tried to introduce it because she was really constipated so it was a struggle trying to get her to drink it. but iād say keep trying & offering. it took a week for her to accept it and now she loves it and doesnāt play about it. sheāll chug it down, and fuss for her sippy water bottle if she sees it in sight so we have to literally hide it until after sheās done eating her solids
or maybe mix it with a little bit of baby juice for flavoring and see if it helps. not too much though
Just keep offering! Itās something new. Baby takes time to adjust. The doctor saying to offer doesnāt mean sheāll be dehydrated if not. It seems like they were just saying you can start adding that to her diet.
@mama bit i disagree because honey can kill them because of bacteria and a little bit of molasses is okay after 9 months. I rank karo with molasses and we are talking about a tsp and you can put less than that even. I mean I am open to my mind being changed thatās just based off my research.
A splash just a splash of 100% apple juice. For every four ounce split the 8 oz up into two each time she drinks
Iād highly recommend just to keep offering water. I was concerned with our son & did add things to his water but now I regret it. Itās taken a while but our daughter just recently started enjoying water. As long as your baby is getting formula or breast milk, she shouldnāt be getting dehydrated. It just takes time to develop a craving for water.
My lo lives really cold water out of a straw and will only drink it that way idk why also she doesnāt know how to drink from a straw so I sit there and drop a straw at a time in her mouth itās really taxing š
what are you serving it in? my baby wonāt drink it out of a bottle, only an open cup. i offer at every meal and sometimes she drinks one sip and sometimes 4 oz
I made flavored or infused water with things like lemon, lime, cucumber, watermelon, etc. just to give it some flavor. Iāve even used the little lime juice bottle thatās shaped like a lime and added a few drops to water
@Hannah honey, molasses, and karo syrup have the same risk of killing them due to bacteria. it's botulism bacteria. a simple google search will tell you karo syrup is not recommended for any baby under one. babies stomachs aren't acidic enough to kill the bacteria until 1 year of age, which is why karo syrup, honey, and molasses are not recommended under one anymore. i know doctors used to tell moms to put karo syrup in a babies bottle to help with constipation, but it's not safe, and is now not said anymore.
@mama bit karo syrup is basically just sugar which isnāt recommended for babies either
@mama bit okay chill and a simple google search isnāt always accurate. I can get the message of what you are trying to say without you being condescending. šš
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@Hannah i wasn't being condescending on purpose. i apologise, i can have a flat affect sometimes
@mama bit no worries! I appreciate the clarification š
I found taking the lid of her sippy cup and having it a open cup encouraged my LG as she sees us drinking from normal cups and she loves to hold it and try drinking I didnāt realise we needed to try get 8oz down I thought it was only little bits at meal times so Iāll have to try and up her amount
@Lala š did the water help with the constipation? My LO has the hardest poops right now and no amount of prunes can help it. I give her water throughout the day but donāt know how much to give.
@Megan yess it helped and also change of diet. i also didnāt know we were allowed to give so much so when i told my pediatrician about the constipation she told me to give 6-8oz of the water a day. as far as softer stools go, iād suggest feeding prunes, sweet potatoes, pears, peaches, and peas more often as they help with constipation and encourage softer stools. it got so bad to the point where i decided to just stop feeding her other foods and just focused on the ones i mentioned above until she was back to moving again. but for future defly beware of rice and bananas because they contribute to hard stools/constipation.
A tsp of karo syrup helps. My friend told me to do that to help encourage my child to drink water until he gets use to it