Hi there,
Hope someone can help me with my confusion, hv is a bit rubbish and impossible to get hold of over the phone, and I can't get to her drop in sessions.
My dd is 8.5 months, exclusively bf, has been onto solids since 6 months. The only fluids she gets apart from in her food are from me. Should she be drinking water or juice as well?
She would never take a bottle, but occasionally takes ebm from a tommy tippee sippy cup, so she does know how to drink. She doesn't seem to be constipated or dehydrated. Some days she wants to feed lots, but seems to be more for comfort, when she's tired or teething or not well in general.
Just wondered if I should be giving her anything else to drink as well as her feeds. The baby food books I have say give water or juice with meals, but I've just been assuming that they're aimed at mothers of ff babies. I have something in my head that says babies shouldn't need any drink other than bm for first year, but don't know where that came from, or if it's right.
Do have a 6 yr old ds, so should know, but to be honest when he was this age I was working full time, had pnd and mil looked after him all day. Plus, I just really can't remember - wasn't planning having another, so didn't pay a huge amount of attention or make an effort to remember stuff I didn't think would be important for the future.
Thanks in advance