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I have always been told B/F babies dont need water coz breast milk is a food and drink in one.Some advice ive been given that i should be giving my daughter who is nearly 7 months old water coz its hot weather because Boobie milk wont be enough and the fact she is over 6 months. Just wondered what other people have been doing?
 
I didn't give Sam any other drinks at all until he was on a couple of meals a day at about 6 months, and even then I just offered him a bit of water in a sippy cup which he just played with for the first few weeks so he didn't get much at all x
 
There is no harm in giving babies cool boiled water. Many people do so to help with constipation for FF babies. But in hot weather do you want to be taking your boob out every 10 mins to ensure your baby is hydrated!
 
I give holly water because shes on solid food and i think she wuold get thirsty.
 
in hot weather you need to keep your baby hydrated. if your outside or real active i would try water. not all babies will drink it. just keep in mind you really cant do anything wrong. its trial and error

also.. at night its better to have water to put them to sleep then milk for their teeth. [but i think thats when they get older.] i just know that from my neice and shes almost 3
 
I don't think necc in hot water she would need anything else still, if she is nursing good she is fine. She doesn't have to be nursing all the time to stay hydrated, you don't have to give any babies water every few minutes to keep them hydrated. A normal healthy baby will let you know if they need more, they aren't going to let themselves get dehydrated so I'd watch her and her wet diapers rather than the weather or anything else :)

For Hayden we started offering water in a sippy at about 6mo when he started solids, but only to get him use to the sippy he seriously rarely drank it I think maybe a few ounces total until he was over a year lol. And he turned 6mo in March...a year in Sept so right during the summer for us :) The one day he drank the most...I guess 2-3 oz in that day was when we were at the zoo outside all day, other than that it was a few sips here and there, like a few times a week. He let me know when he needed more. If she is on solids she will also get fluids from that too
 
tracie107 said:
There is no harm in giving babies cool boiled water. Many people do so to help with constipation for FF babies. But in hot weather do you want to be taking your boob out every 10 mins to ensure your baby is hydrated!
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I dont give a flying fig about taking my boob out in the snow if necessary!

BF babies dont NEED water. You can give them a drink of water with solids when you are weaning but before BM is sufficient. My LO was so hot and bothered today that she wouldnt drink any water.....she had a drink from me no probs. :)

momma2all said:
at night its better to have water to put them to sleep then milk for their teeth. [but i think thats when they get older.] i just know that from my neice and shes almost 3
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What?! You dont give 7 month old babies water to go to sleep! Are you talking about a toddler here??

BFing and BM has no effect on their teeth.

This is bad advice for the OP - sorry but it is.
 
Yeah I agree with MM...I didn't even read that post before...oops

But breastmilk doesn't rot teeth like formula, juice, cow's milk...they don't get the "baby bottle rot" from nursing even to sleep
 
Mervs Mum said:
tracie107 said:
There is no harm in giving babies cool boiled water. Many people do so to help with constipation for FF babies. But in hot weather do you want to be taking your boob out every 10 mins to ensure your baby is hydrated!
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:shock:

I dont give a flying fig about taking my boob out in the snow if necessary!

BF babies dont NEED water. You can give them a drink of water with solids when you are weaning but before BM is sufficient. My LO was so hot and bothered today that she wouldnt drink any water.....she had a drink from me no probs. :)

momma2all said:
at night its better to have water to put them to sleep then milk for their teeth. [but i think thats when they get older.] i just know that from my neice and shes almost 3
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What?! You dont give 7 month old babies water to go to sleep! Are you talking about a toddler here??

BFing and BM has no effect on their teeth.

This is bad advice for the OP - sorry but it is.
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sorry to say but my post said my neice is almost THREE! so its not bad advice you just need to read it all if your going to crit.
 
mommyof3co said:
Yeah I agree with MM...I didn't even read that post before...oops

But breastmilk doesn't rot teeth like formula, juice, cow's milk...they don't get the "baby bottle rot" from nursing even to sleep
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[AGAIN] this was advice i gave from babysitting my almost THREE yr old neice.
 
Well it is actually true for things other than breastmilk even as babies :) And some people don't know that breastmilk doesn't cause the decay like that which is why I said something
 
Oh I read it all which is why I asked you! Why bother posting it when it's not relevant to the question then??? :dohh:

I am a trained BF counsellor and it's still bad advice in relation to breastfeeding.
 
How does babysitting a 3 year old child relate to giving water to a breastfed 7 month old baby?? :wacko:
 
you know what i dont care what you are. im just trying to help as much as possible. as far as breast feeding im pregnant with my first child and im just as clueless ass the person who posted this. so if u want to gripe at someone for giving bad advice gripe at people that dont give advice at all.

thank you mommyof3 =] i didnt know that!!
 
Yikes! If you are looking for advice on breastfeeding so you are prepared I wouldn't piss off Mervs Mum she's one of the best on here for that :) I don't think she was griping at you but correcting you so that no one on here is getting the wrong advice
 
I dont think bad advice is better than no advice!!!!

What if she gave her 7 month old baby water to go to bed and they started to lose weight because they were 'clueless' like you described yourself???? How would you feel then??

You need to give advice on things you DO know about :)
 
And maybe when you have been around longer than a few hours, you'll understand how it works ;)
 
i only offer water to Fred now he is on 3 meals a day and he normally spits it out. but no before solids they don't 'need' water, breast milk is enough xx and a definate NO to giving water before bed instead of milk to a baby :baby:

i have no probs either offering boob as a drink which is what i have been doing in this heat, like MM said i would happily get em out whatever the weather for my baby!
 
I am also interested in this subject as I keep getting different advice from, books, friends/family AND health professionals.

Some people have told me that I should only give water if baby FF (He isn't) othes have said that in this weather water is beneficial BF or not. The HV says no water at all and the doctor said yes its fine when its this hot !!

Ive also just started a new routine for Lucas which reccommends giving a small amount of water EVERY day.

So far ive not given him any but how on earth you are supposed to make a decision with so many mixed messages I don't know.

What do they do in countries when its hot 24/7 ?!
 
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