Refuses to drink
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Hi Everyone, my daughter is 28 weeks and is now on 3 meals a day the problem is she refuses to drink water (or diluted juice) only milk. She has an 8oz bottle at 7am one at 3pm & another at 7pm, but won't take any fluids at mealtime. I've tried her with a beaker and a bottle even tried the beaker without the lid on, but she still refuses. Anyone got any tips? or experienced similar. She is becoming constipated through not drinking enough but other than that is fit and well.
Any advice welcome.
Any advice welcome.
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Afraid I haven't encountered this but what I would be inclined to do is start watering down her three o'clock feed. That was she will get more hydration from it and if you do it gradually you might be able to get it all the way to water without her realising. She then hopefully would start taking water as a drink at mealtimes. I would imagine as she is taking a good amount of milk morning and night thta this would be okay and not cause any problems but may want to check with health visitor first.
Just my thoughts. Best of luck with it.
She seems to be getting alot of liquids from her milk 24oz a day is good tbh! Maybe she's getting constipated from the foods you're giving her? sometimes it just takes a while for the body to get used to the foods.
Obviosuly you do need her to have a bit of water in the day too to help, when you feed her even if she doesn't drink from it always have a bottle of water. If she really doens't like the beaker yet then at least get her accepting water before getting her used to the beaker.
Try grapes, melon, cauliflower, tomatoes to help with the pooing.. Keep away from red meats/chicken for a few days then add your meats slowly back into her diet.
id stay away from red meat completely until her constipation goes away as red meat is hard to digest.
I started offering daniel a beaker/bottle of water when he was 6 months old, he only started drinking the water when he about 11 months old. he would only drink from a bottle and only started to drink from the spout last month. he's 18 months now.
he also has mild cp but I don't think this was the reason, kids just do things when they're ready. xxx )
He has dropped all his daytime bottles now and just has water/juice in the day.I just up his milk intake by cooking with it,i.e cheese sauce,rice pud,porridge.
Good Luck - it does get better.:\)
Thanks so much for the support feel better.
Lisa