My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

Find weaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Weaning forum. Use our child development calendar for more information.

Weaning

Water instead of milk

4 replies

AmIThough · 04/11/2019 08:34

I was reading that when a baby turns 6 months they can have water to drink, but how do you know whether to give them water or milk?

I know that sounds ridiculous...

OP posts:
Report
Babybluesornormal · 04/11/2019 08:38

You just give a cup of water with food. At 6 months you should be offering solids 30 to 60 mins after a milk feed.

Report
AmaiyaGrace1 · 04/11/2019 08:42

Just offer when you offer food.

Report
Sux2buthen · 04/11/2019 08:45

You dint have to at all. All the water they need is in breast milk/ formula. You can offer a little with food if you want to but not much.
Just don't stress, with my first I was a neurotic nightmare. Now on my third and final and just go with the flow. She's 8 months and never had a cup of water

Report
AmIThough · 04/11/2019 09:03

Ah thank you all Smile I'm a FTM (pretty obvious really Grin) and we put so much pressure on ourselves to do everything perfectly, don't we?

Thanks so much!

OP posts:
Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.