Help! Baby not drinking enough at nursery

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He's 9 months, breast fed exclusively (but for the odd nursing strike) till 6 months, bit more formula action after that.

Send him in each morning with two bottles, to replace the breastfeed he has about 10.30 and 2... But he won't have the bottles and apparently doesn't really drink enough water from a cup either.

We are trying every kind of cup/bottle as a first strategy but anyone got any other ideas?

I'm not worried if he doesn't want the formula as he's still having lots of breastfeeds morning, evening and through the night (yawn). But I don't want him to get dehydrated through the day. He's not quite able to manoeuvre the cups into his mouth and up to drink yet -he is fairly independent in spirit so i'm sure it will be better when he can do it himself. But in the meantime...?

anyone about?

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(esp as fear this may be me in a short while!)

How long has he been at nursery? IME lots of them are like this, and just settle over a few weeks. I used to bf my dd when I got to nursery to pick her up! I hope the nursery staff aren't making you worried. Generally they're very good at just persisting day after day and eventually most babies give in.

Is he there 5 days/week? My neice absolutely refused formula/bottles etc at nursery and took ages to get going with water in a cup. They just gave her lots of other milk (cereal, yoghurts, cheesey food) for the calcium/calories and also the food they eat at this age can be pretty sloppy and plenty of cooked veg which contains lots of water. Fruit puree (like the pots from Organix etc) is good too.

Does he eat/drink well with you? After nursery? I would suggest jamming in as much food & milk as you can when you get home to limit the night waking. If all this is fine, I don't think you should worry.

not long Catilla and they are not worrying unduly about it. But I may go in and feed him at lunchtime a bit if he hasn't drunk all morning.

He's a bit off and on with food and has had lots of breastfeeding 'strikes' so I don't want to make a massive issue of it. But he sometimes just will not drink, even though he's thirsty so it does worry me a bit.

He has gradually improved his willingness to eat at nursery though so am hoping the drinking will go the same way.

My ds1 always drank less ff at nursery than at home and think it was partly down to staff being so paranoid about over-heating bottles that they were too cold. Ds1 was quite fussy that ff as warm as bf or he'd refuse. Could you ask them how warm botles are? Otherwise, juyst make sure ther's lots of cheese, yogurt, other dairy stuff in the diet.

I've actually discovered this morning that he has bad oral thrush so treating that first and hopefully that will help!