Water poll

[byjove]

How much water are you offering your LO and how much/how often are they drinking it?

[13liza]

Honestly, not enough. I try to remember to offer with dinner. I think he gets some at daycare. So probably 4-6oz? I think the doctor said he could have up to 8oz per day? He definitely spills a lot, so not sure how much he actually drinks.

[obscurereference]

None and none. Oops. I don't think about it. Pretty sure I didn't bother with DS until he was a year old. We're busy working on self-feeding. She has been on the slow side to pick up on eating.

[geners]

Next to none. We are still trying to get his daytime milk consumption back up. We will occasionally give him some water in the straw cup to accompany dinner but usually we put milk in the cup instead.

[gdaisy09]

not much. we tend to offer a sippy of watered down prune juice (1oz juice plus 3oz water as we're also dealing with some constipation) while she's waiting for us to get food ready. I think most of this ends-up down the front of her shirt.

[COCO]

We give DD a sippy cup with water whenever she's in her highchair - so usually 2 to 3 times per day. She drinks on average 1-3 ounces a day.

[thatgirlrachel]

EG will drink water out of an open cup (with assistance of course) all day if you let her. But she looks at me like an alien when I put it in her sippy cup. At the ped's recommendation, we do diluted Gerber juice with meals. I'm going to keep pushing plain water, maybe with the 360 cup.

[spidermonkeymama]

When she asks for it.

[kida]

In the summer when it was hot I would give her a few ounces but I really haven't thought too much about it. She was doing good with 2oz water 2oz juice mix before her sippy cup strike but now I'm trying to find a cup she'll drink from again. So basically a few sips from my bottle of water every now and then. :/

[RoLoMa]

At home he always has a sippy with water in it nearby. If he is playing or at the table or whatever. He usually drinks 3/4-1 full cup over the course of the day. It is an 8oz cup. At daycare he has a sippy with water at lunch and usually drinks 1/2 of it. He drinks his breastmilk out of his sippy with am and pm snack at daycare as well. If he is playing around he'll spit it out or dribble it but for the most part he is actually drinking it.

[byjove]

Sept 30, 2016 12:11:20 GMT -5 spidermonkeymama said:

When she asks for it.

LOL

[spidermonkeymama]

Sept 30, 2016 13:00:52 GMT -5 byjove said:

Sept 30, 2016 12:11:20 GMT -5 spidermonkeymama said:

When she asks for it.

LOL

She screams when she sees water til I drown her in it... she loves it. Only out of a water bottle or an actual glass. Never a sippy or anything. I have no idea how much she drinks. 

[obscurereference]

Yea I never understood the pushing water in a sippy before one thing. If you wait until they're older they just learn the sippy on their own instead of having to teach it to them.

[HelgaHuffle]

R loooooves water. He cries for some any time we are pouring a glass. He steals F's cups and drinks them. He usually gets some at meals too. I don't think he ever actually drinks much. Lately he likes to spit it right back out. So when he steals F's cups I find little puddles everywhere.

[cnf2013]

We offer it at lunch and dinner. She drinks out of a regular open cup with help or her Nuby straw cups by herself. She LOVES water and actually gets most of it down her throat instead of her front. I don't measure it, but I'd say anywhere from 4-8oz on any given day.

[Unknown]

I offer a sippy with all three meals, but she only probably drinks a couple of. She's often constipated, so I wish she drank a little more.

[expatmama11]

We offer at meals and then randomly if we have been out. I never really pay attention to how much he drinks but he seems to like water.

[evenkeeled]

We are dealing with constipation issues the last few weeks so pushing water and prune concentrate more now. She is getting 4 oz which she tends to drink all of. She loves drinking out of a glass or bottle with assistance.

[byjove]

We offer small sips from a glass when she eats with us- she'll take a few sips. Daycare doesn't really offer water- my provider is happy with how Margs is feeding and doesn't want to rock the boat. I've left a sippy of water a few times for M and daycare says she just ignores it. I am worried that she is having constipation issues as a few of describe and am thinking more water at daycare would help, but not sure how to make it happen.

[geners]

We've been struggling with some constipation issues as well. But I also have concerns about C's milk intake during the day so I'm hesitant to give him too much water - I'd rather he just drink more milk!

[byjove]

geners,how many ounces of milk is he drinking during the day? Do you think it would help if he took it from a sippy/straw cup instead of a bottle?

[geners]

Oct 3, 2016 12:52:07 GMT -5 byjove said:

geners ,how many ounces of milk is he drinking during the day? Do you think it would help if he took it from a sippy/straw cup instead of a bottle?

He's taking in around 11-12oz most days during the 11 hours I'm gone (7:30-6:30). I usually (but not always) nurse sometime between 5-7am and then always at bedtime, around 7:30pm. There is usually at least one MOTN feeding from a bottle or me. Added all up, I'm really not sure he's getting enough. Before we started solids he was taking in 18-20 oz during the same 11 hour span plus nursing more...

A lot of times I can get him to take an additional ounce or two in a straw cup while we're eating dinner. So we've started having MH/nanny offer a couple ounces in a straw cup before solids, it's hit or miss...

[byjove]

Oct 3, 2016 13:39:51 GMT -5 geners said:

Oct 3, 2016 12:52:07 GMT -5 byjove said:

geners ,how many ounces of milk is he drinking during the day? Do you think it would help if he took it from a sippy/straw cup instead of a bottle?

He's taking in around 11-12oz most days during the 11 hours I'm gone (7:30-6:30). I usually (but not always) nurse sometime between 5-7am and then always at bedtime, around 7:30pm. There is usually at least one MOTN feeding from a bottle or me. Added all up, I'm really not sure he's getting enough. Before we started solids he was taking in 18-20 oz during the same 11 hour span plus nursing more...

A lot of times I can get him to take an additional ounce or two in a straw cup while we're eating dinner. So we've started having MH/nanny offer a couple ounces in a straw cup before solids, it's hit or miss...

That actually sounds like a decent amount to me! Kellymom says average bm intake at 7 months was 30 oz and at 11-16 months was 19 oz in a 24 hour period. I bet he is getting close to 20 oz in 24 hours, which sounds about right. Clearly after 7 months old it decreases quite quickly, if that makes you feel a bit better!

[geners]

byjove, that does make me feel better, thank you! I didn't realize there was such a drop-off after 7 months. That is around when his dropped off. I wasn't sure if we were giving him too many solids, or he was losing interest in nursing/milk or what.

So much changed at around the same time - earlier in the summer it was teething, a cold, transition to the crib and then we went on vacation all within a couple weeks, and more recently it was new nanny, stopping and then restarting Zantac and more teething within another couple weeks so it makes it really hard to isolate what's going on. Throw in things like wonder weeks and the fact that these LOs are always changing anyway, and I just throw my hands up!!

[byjove]

Oct 3, 2016 15:25:50 GMT -5 geners said:

byjove, that does make me feel better, thank you! I didn't realize there was such a drop-off after 7 months. That is around when his dropped off. I wasn't sure if we were giving him too many solids, or he was losing interest in nursing/milk or what.

So much changed at around the same time - earlier in the summer it was teething, a cold, transition to the crib and then we went on vacation all within a couple weeks, and more recently it was new nanny, stopping and then restarting Zantac and more teething within another couple weeks so it makes it really hard to isolate what's going on. Throw in things like wonder weeks and the fact that these LOs are always changing anyway, and I just throw my hands up!!

I had forgotten it was so large too. I know, babies like to keep you guessing!!