thread: Please help me get DD to drink water!!!

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  1. #1
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    Jul 2006
    Brisbane
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    Flossie, How much milk does she drink? If she drinks a lot of milk, maybe cut that back and see if that helps. Also, have you tried a straw cup - or a water bottle? Most of the kids I know drink water from straw cups or water bottles so maybe that would help. GL.

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Feb 2006
    NSW Central Coast
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    We use a straw cup for water- a magmag one. I leave it on the table all day for her, she's figured out it spills if she shakes it, so it often ends up on the floor, but I take it off her if she does that. She has also started to spit it out onto her top, and again I take it away if she does it and put it on the table again later. I give her cold tap water from the fridge and sometimes put ice cubes into it.
    She has to drink that whole cup of water and then I'll give her one cup (a bigger different sippee cup) of water with some freshly squeezed orange juice in it, or it there's no oranges, about 1/4 of a juice box into the water. She'll often skoll all of that in about 30 mins! The other day I even put a bit of prune juice in it (yuck!!) to try to help her poo and she drank that too.
    I don't worry too much though, cause she often drinks water from the bath, gross I know, but it's cleanish! And I don't use soap to wash her so it should be ok.
    ETA: I have a 'pump' water bottle by my bed for night times and DD loves to drink from that, maybe a drink bottle like that would be good?
    Last edited by MrsFabuloso; June 12th, 2008 at 08:18 PM.

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