Hi
My daughter is 6 months old and doc advised to give water. She doesnot take water from bottle at all. She thinks its milk n pushes away. So I give water in 'small sangu' what we use in India to feed baby. She takes fine in it but amount is very less.
If water is this case , how can I feed her juice then ? I didnot start juice still. Can I start now ?
Pls advice,
tq
Maha vatsalya replied. Hi!
my son is 4.5 months old and iam giving water and juice for him as his doctor adviced to do so.iam feeding him with a spoon. he too resists to take. but i will keep the spoon horizontally in his mouth till he takes inside. ofcourse iam using a plastic baby spoon.one more thing is his doctor adviced not to use the feeding bottle.so iam using spoon/ 'small sangu
to feed him.but at nights iam using bottle.try with baby spoon.she may cry a little and it will be painful for you i know but go for it. hope it will work. Sujatha replied. Hi Maha,
I have a 7 month old daughter. She won't take bottle I have given her water using the 'sangu' and now that she is learning a lot, she knows how to outsmart me. I have to come up with new tricks inorder to give her water or juice. Now I use the medicine dropper. I have also tried the sippy cup and a regular tumbler. But the dropper seems to be working better now. What I do is try the sippy cup for a while (I even took the spill proof valve out).

You can very well give her juice but not more than 3oz a day. I usually give my girl 2 oz and 2 oz of water at this age. You can start with white grape juice and then introduce apple and pear nectar for now. We have to make sure that we don't give too much of water or juice as it will limit their milk/formula intake. Try to give water after giving solids(have you started giving solids?) Anyway, good luck with everything. Let me know how things go.