Does your little one like water in their bottle?

Toni - posted on 03/25/2010

Lakisha, My daughter will be 7 months old on Saturday. I have been giving her juice watered down since she was 3 months. It's ok to give them juice as long as you water it down a little. My doctor told me not to give them more then 4 oz of plain juice a day. I hope that helps.

Lakisha - posted on 03/25/2010

Ok, my queston is it okay 2 give a 7 month old jucie and water?

Michelle - posted on 03/21/2010

I'm surprised to hear the "breaking that habit" talk concerning feeding babies whether it be a bottle or nursing before bed. I have always fed my babies before bedtime. It's not a habit that will have to be broken, they will grow out of it on their own. My daughter stopped wanting a bottle on her own at 10 1/2 mos. It's not wrong to feed them before putting them down for the night.

Anna - posted on 03/16/2010

Hi,
My daughter is 7 and 1/2 months old and she hated water in her bottle. I then started giving it to her with a spoon and she loved it. I now give it to her from a plastic cup and she loves it.

Diane - posted on 03/16/2010

It's normal for babies to want to suck on their way to sleep, breastfed babies nurse on their way to sleep. Have you tried watering the juice down? Maybe if it isn't very sweet she won't mind the switch to water. Or maybe she doesn't care for the taste of the water in your city, if that's the case you could try bottled water and see if that makes a difference.

Ana - posted on 03/16/2010

my son used to hate water when i put it in his bottle. then i discovered that he only drinks water if it is in his beaker. he loves it like that. so try it. i think the way he is thinking is: bottle is for milk, beaker is for water. :) also, before going to bed my son gets his milk and settles him so nicely with a full tummy.

Celeste - posted on 03/16/2010

My son gets MAD when I give him a water bottle during his sleepy time. I tried it to wean him from his night feeding, then I gave up. I don't give my son juice so he just gets a watered down formula bottle.

Jennifer - posted on 03/16/2010

i think you have to just wean her out of that habit, she won't like it at first but she'll get use to it. My almost 7 month old only drinks water after eating "jar foods" to help her wash it down otherwise she shouldn't drink too much water yet. Try different things to help her drink water. My daughter drinks from a sippy cup, bottle or cup so try different things. My secret to helping her sleep through the night is "stuffing" her, making sure she is full before bed, of course digesting her food first. If she goes to sleep hungry she will definitely wake up during the night. She will fall asleep with a pacifier real fast too. Good Luck!

Jess - posted on 03/16/2010

My daughter will only drink water from a sippy cup. Its so cute watching her with the cup, she is really tiny and the cup is huge in comparision ! She miss's sometimes and starts sucking the handles but its adorable !

Toni - posted on 03/12/2010

So heather, your saying that if I move her crib out of my room, she might sleep better? She use to sleep all night when she was 2 months old, and then she stopped. Yesterday she got her flu vaccine and today she has been very cranky and tired. So my mom thinks she already had the flu in her system and the vaccine made it come out. Do you think that is whats happening?

Ashlee - posted on 03/12/2010

also he sleeps all nite from around 930 to like 930 the next morning without needing anything and does not wake up in the middle of the nite

Ashlee - posted on 03/12/2010

my son is 7 months old and he drinks water out of a cup like we drink out of and has since he was around 4 months old!

Heather - posted on 03/12/2010

My pediatrician says the same things as Emily. Baby needs formula alot more than water, and not to worry about when they need a bottle. Just feed them.
Is the crib next to your bed? From talking to other moms, that is the only difference between my sleeps-through-the-night baby and their babies that are waking up. My girlfriend moved the crib and her son started sleeping for much longer periods.

Emily - posted on 03/12/2010

She is only 6 months old... be patient. It is not a bad "habit" for a 6-month-old to still need a bottle in the middle of the night. She will not need it forever!

Alissa - posted on 03/12/2010

Try giving her formula not water. She'll grow out of wanting a bottle in order to go to sleep the more she eats solid foods. More solid foods=less formula.

Toni - posted on 03/12/2010

I tried to give her water when she woke up around 1 this morning and she wouldn't take it. I even tried giving her the pacifier but that didn't work. since she was born she always had to have the bottle in order to fall asleep. I don't know how I'm going to get her out of that habit.

Toni - posted on 03/12/2010

My daughter hates the water. And she stopped using the pacifier when she was 4 months. She just stopped wanting it. Now when I try to give her the pacifier, she acts like she don't know how to use it.

Brittany - posted on 03/12/2010

I wouldn't say my son LIKES water but he'll still drink it. He takes the bottle out of his mouth here and there and looks at you like you're crazy but he still continues to drink it.

Sarah - posted on 03/11/2010

I would use a sippy cup, my daughters ace with a sippy cup and has drank water from it since 4mnths old, i give her juice at night to try and get her out of her middle of the night snack milk cuz shes not really drinking it, she jus wants me to pick her up! to get her out the juice maybe dilute it down more and more each night until its jus a tiny dribble mixed with lots of water and eventually hopefully they may not notice its eventually water!?! good luck xx

Esmeralda - posted on 03/11/2010

hello. my mother tried to use a small glass for water or a nice plastic bottle which my daughter Sofiaane can use for drinking...and it works, because the tactics we made..and you know the baby if it seems new thing for them, they grab! and she likes water..

Cynthia - posted on 03/11/2010

My 7 month old also doesn't like to drink water. I tried giving it to her in a sippy cup. She took one taste, found out that it's water, then started to play around with the cup and biting the tip. I also tried giving it to her in her bottle, which she was excited to take at first but after a taste, she stopped drinking and started chewing the nipple. I don't want to give her juice because it seems like empty calories to me. It's just sugar water. So I'll try to hold off on the juice as long as I can.

Toni - posted on 03/11/2010

Yea she just had her 6 month appt today. And the doctor told me to try and wean her out of wanting so much formula. To give her more jar food and table food. I never knew you can give a 6 month old scrabbled eggs.

Judie - posted on 03/11/2010

Babies at this age should not have a full bottle of water yet. In babies water takes away their natural electrolites. My doc said at this age it is ok to put like an ounce of water in a sippy cup to let them start learning the process.

Alissa - posted on 03/11/2010

Toni--A "soother" is another word for a pacifier. I would try giving your daughter a bottle with her regular formula or breastmilk. Babies don't need much water or juice--only a couple of sips a day at this age. She's probably waking up at night because she's hungry.

Toni - posted on 03/11/2010

Hey what is a soother? I never heard of that before. She has been waking up alot through out the night. She takes little power naps all through the night. And I never get any sleep.

Alison - posted on 03/11/2010

why dont u try givin her a soother instead only at sleep times i do this with my 7 month old because i didnt want 2 get her used 2 always havin 2 have a bottle 2 fall asleep with. she only ever has it at bedtime and sleeps right through the night. hope this helps x

Nomthy - posted on 03/10/2010

Yes but I put a lil bit of brown sugar there and it helps when he's constipated, but not too much of it.

Emily - posted on 03/10/2010

I don't understand why you don't want her having formula? She's only 6 months old... it's okay to give her formula. That has more nutrients that she needs than water. No different from a breastfed baby nursing to sleep. It's a natural thing for babies to want to do. Water isn't so natural for babies... which is probably why she hates it.

Toni - posted on 03/10/2010

Yea everybody keeps telling me that I need to break her from it. But it is just so hard. I guess I will figure something out.

Jamie - posted on 03/10/2010

my daughter (7 months) hates anything but her formula in her bottle, she won't drink juice or water from it, but she will drink anything from a sippy cup. Try giving her her bottle while you hold her, and lay her in her crib to fall asleep, she will probably cry for a little bit because she is not used to it, and go it, console her, and put her back down. You should really try to break that habit soon, it will be much harder to break when she is older.



Also, my mother in law bought my daughter a little projector (sorry i don't remember exactly what it's called) it came with 3 slides that move in a circular motion, moons and stars, sea animals, and the last one I don't remember, it also plays music, when I lay her in her crib, sometimes she has a tough time and will fuss, I aim that right at the ceiling above her and she'll watch it quietly until she falls asleep.