How much water and is yoghurt necessary?

[briggsy's girl]

i agree with Jen - just have teh sippy cup there - if she wants it, great, if not, who cares? she is getting plenty of fluids from your BM and that's what is important.

some days, E has no water at all - others, she'll have more. it really depends on the day and her mood - and how much she is showing off that she is clever and can drink from the sippy cup!!

yogurt wise - E doesn't have cereal - doesn't like it, won't have a bar of it. so we offer her yogurt instead. i don't much enjoy cereal, so maybe she inherited that one from me. i'd prefer fruit and yogurt for brekki. i don't push it - she gets to feed herself. some days she'll refuse it altogether, others she will eat it all plus half a sandwich.

i guess we need to remind ourselves that, at this age, they are experimenting more than anything - developing their own tastes. it seems CJ doesn't like yogurt, so no big drama there (E only eats vanilla - buy any with flavours already and she clamps her mouth down!). just try her every now and then and see how she goes. i know that i eat yogurt now, but as a kid i used to flat out refuse cos i didn't like that taste (mum is still like this now!)

CJ is a happy healthy bubba. she is just feeling her way and finding her own taste in food. keep experimenting and see how she goes. good luck hun!

[rufalina]

I agree with the girls, and wanted to add, with my DS1 I would offer foods for a few days, and see how he went, and if they were rejected, I would give up on them, and try again in a few weeks. Sometimes, he would just lap them up the next time I offered, in the same way they will reject foods that they have eaten happily for months. Kids and food It will drive you crazy if you let it.

[RhiChiChi]

I agree with the girls, and wanted to add, with my DS1 I would offer foods for a few days, and see how he went, and if they were rejected, I would give up on them, and try again in a few weeks. Sometimes, he would just lap them up the next time I offered, in the same way they will reject foods that they have eaten happily for months. Kids and food It will drive you crazy if you let it.

I agree with rufalina too, just keep offering. My DD didn't like pumpkin from the day we introduced it to her as a baby and it was only last week she ate it! (She is 2.5 y.o.) I read somewhere that it can take up to 10 times of offering a particular food to a child before they will even try it. Sometimes it is a textural thing too - DD doesn't really like mushrooms, but chopped finely will eat it.

[SareBear]

My little guy wasn't drinking water either, I don't think he quite got the idea of tipping the sippy cup up. I bought him a cup with a straw (with a valve so it doesn't come out too fast) and now he drinks all day long. Maybe something like that might help (if you haven't already tried it that is).

[wysiwyg]

Thanks for all the replies - think just needed the reassurance - as all bubs in my MG are doing puree and yoghurt seems to be a main stay of their diet, and is always like oh dear when I say she won't eat it (although she does eat at least 10x more foods than them - including prawns and flesh from moreton bay bugs on the weekend ). I actually feel kind of left out because always talking about the types of baby food they like etc and I have nothing to add because CJ hasn't tried any of that stuff only normal food and they just don't seem interested in BLS.

Oh and she drank a fair bit of water today - is pretty hot so maybe the other days just wasn't thirsty. I haven't tried a cup with a straw yet SareBear - I might get one at some point but she likes water out my sports bottle better than anything else (Maybe if I carry round a sippy cup and drink out of that all day she will want to copy me and start using that )