Please help me get DD to drink water!!!

[Mummyof2under2]

My DD drinks nothing BUT water. I want her to drink milk but she won't.

We always had the playtex sippy cups - DD loved those.

My DD will have water from the tap, out of the fridge, or bottled water.

Maybe your DD just doesn't like water.

[Flossie]

Thanks for all suggestions!

I have since tried cold water, another bottle, fresh water and calling it magic juice but still nothing!!

Will just keep persisting with it

[Curly]

I've just noticed you are in Melbourne...for what it's worth my DS loves water but his water consumption has cut right back now that the weather's gone cold. I think all you can do is persist by setting a good example by drinking water, leaving water bottles or cups lying around, offering water at meals or when you are out and about but you may find that she doesn't really take to water in larger quantities until summer time. My DS wasn't drinking a lot of water when he turned 1 in September last year but over the summer he really took to it.

Another thing to consider might be whether you put her sippy cups in the dishwasher? I noticed a while back when having a sip from DS' sippy cup that I could taste the detergent in the water, especially if the water had been in the cup for a few hours. That was part of the reason I bought him a Sigg bottle, and I've gone back to handwashing his sippy cups.

So much of this is persistence - my DS went through an amazingly fussy period with his food when he turned 1 and rejected almost everything he'd eaten so far. He is now 20 months and we are only just getting back on track. I don't know what has changed but he is suddenly willing to try new food. I just kept trying and didn't make a fuss if he refused but praised him to the skies when he consented to try something new.

[Ozziehoffy]

Flossie, it's only really in the past month that Oskar has started to drink water out of his own cup... prior to this he would on occasion drink some of mine out of a bottle. I just kept offering it to him and then the cup that did it is a $2 one! I have spent so much on all these non spill/drip ones...the one I got is called Dinkee I think and you get them from KMart in the area where the normal drink bottles/lunch boxes are. It's a straw cup and for Oskar worked as it's not one where he has to suck reaaaaally hard like the others and he soon worked it out and now drinks like a fish most days.