Stupid question re water

[Deleted]

When did you start giving your baby water?

How much a day?

What time(s) of day?

In what container (e.g., sippy cup, straw cup, etc.)?

Thanks!

[Jalapeñomel]

I've tried everything, and D will not drink water from any container. I started trying around 7 or 8 months.

[countthestars]

I started giving her a sippy around 6 or 7 months but she didn't figure it out right away. She probably had a few sips here and there for the first few months. I offered at meals.

[imimahoney]

Maybe around 8ish months we started to offer it with meals. He learned to use a straw cup very quickly. We used traditional sippies for milk.

[timorousbeastie]

I started trying around 6 months. We do straw cup, sippy, and open cup. She doesn't really seem to get the idea of drinking it on her own, yet, so she doesn't get much. I try to give her some after she eats some solids, but I definitely don't do it every time.

[ssmjlm]

Straw cup at 6m with dinner only.

We didn't start offering throughout the day until after 10m.

[Brie]

6 months-ish, at mealtimes. He didn't really drink a significant amount of water until close to a year though.

[Deleted]

Maybe around a year? Around the same time I transitioned to regular milk. I do milk at meals and water at snacks/whenever they are thirsty the rest of the day.

My girls didn't take bottles so we went right to straw cups (the sippy requires mouth and tongue action that is similar to drinking from a bottle and my kids just never got it).

[Velar Fricative]

I started around 7-8 months but her pediatrician wasn't concerned if she didn't get any at all since she was getting plenty from breastmilk and/or formula.

At a year old now, she's still so-so and won't even drink much out of a bottle, although I mostly offer in a straw cup with meals and throughout the day if she's thirsty. I put about 4 oz in the cup during meals and we're lucky if she drinks an ounce.

[thebreakfastclub]

Probably around 8 months? Unlike most around here, we use the cheap take n toss cups for water, milk and (gasp) juice.

He did not drink a ton until close to a year.

[soozy87]

6 months, offered 5 oz per day (but he didn't drink that much) in a sippy cup

[auberge]

I started at 7 months in a straw sippy cup. She has it with every meal and sometimes in between if it's hot or were outside etc.

[arch01]

We didn't give much until a year. No particular reason, but if he was thirsty we always just gave milk.

[cincodemayo]

I bought the take n toss cups and he liked those starting at around 6 months. Then he quit liking that and I bought straw cups, but he still only drinks a few oz at a time.

[Deleted]

We offered it with food in a sippy or straw cup from about 5/6 months on. We also stuck them in the high chair from about 4 months on with a sippy with water to play with when we were eating. I don't think they drank much until 9+ months.

[pugz]

we started offering a sippy of water throughout the day around 6 months but she had no real interest until closer to a year. She liked the munchkin soft spout ones.

[redheadk]

Pedi suggested to start at around 6 months when we started solids. No more than a few ounces a day but that was a nonissue, she just didn't drink that much for a good long while. We had much more success with straw cups over sippy cups.

[BaliHai]

6 months. We started with a regular Nuby sippy cup which she was OK with, but then we tried a weighted straw cup by Munchkin and she took to that best. We started with 1oz per day at dinner, and now she drinks probably 2-3ozs daily - they offer it throughout the day at daycare, and we give her the cup at dinner, as well.

[mae141]

Started at 6 months with a straw cup at mealtimes. She took little sips at first and now has maybe about an ounce a day at almost 10 months.

[ladygrey]

We started giving a straw cup with meals around 7 months

[Deleted]

Would you say it is more an exercise in learning how to use a straw and/or cup (and/or learning to like water) than actual hydration?

[zeewifeandmama]

Straw cup about 8 months

[sporklemotion]

Oct 10, 2014 16:40:08 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Would you say it is more an exercise in learning how to use a straw and/or cup (and/or learning to like water) than actual hydration?

This is how we are using it. She gets some at day care and some on the weekends with solids, but she doesn't really take in much.  
I think we started around 6 months, and she is 10 months now.

[laurenh]

I think right around 7 months. We started with a zoli straw cup and she loved it.

[auberge]

Oct 10, 2014 16:40:08 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Would you say it is more an exercise in learning how to use a straw and/or cup (and/or learning to like water) than actual hydration?

In the beginning definitely but now that she is older it's more about hydration.

[gibbinator]

When he started solids I gave him a sippy of water with meals. He didn't drink much, maybe an oz or two during the day. He drank more once I cut out nursing sessions at a year.

[pescalita]

We started offering with solids at 6 mo. First bottle, then sippy, and bottle if he really needs it (hot day or sick or something). It took a couple/few months for him to get it and be interested. Now at 13 mo he yells at dinner until he gets a sippy and then chugs half of it. He'll drink out of a straw cup occasionally too.

[starlily]

Around a year, in a sippy cup.