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Old Jul 10th, 2010, 19:44 PM   #1
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OK, so I'm a little confused about serving water and preventing dehydration. Let's say your LO is not longer on formula, how much water should LO be drinking? Elle still drinks formula - 4 bottles a day, but sometimes she'll take three (morning, afternoon and night). Do I just offer her water all the time? What if she drinks too much? I don't want her to have water posioning.


 
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Old Jul 11th, 2010, 04:49 AM   #2
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well, she could really only get water poisoning if she is ingesting too much too fast, so I would only offer her a few oz. at a time every few hours. That is what I do with Hudson, and he is fine with that. He hasn't really liked water all that much, so I just fill his sipper cup with 6-8 oz. and offer it every so often, and he drinks what he wants, and I offer it again later.

Elle would have to consume a very large amount of water to get poisoning, so I don't think that would be likely.


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Old Jul 11th, 2010, 12:46 PM   #3
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So a few ounces every two hours or so? Would that be OK. Elle likes water, but only drinks about 2-3 ounces a sitting.


 
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Old Jul 11th, 2010, 21:18 PM   #4
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she should be completely fine with that. Don't worry. She'd have to have ALOT of water to get poisoned. It's something like 3L in a short period of time to give an adult poisoning, and that's a hell of a lot of water!


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