DS 3.5 barely drinks!

[krisskross]

Our DS drinks a bottle in morning and evening (yes i know....!) but the res tof the day he is like a camel and barely dirnks at all. his wee is often v yellow.

I've tried jazzy cups, straws etc etc with water and hes just not espec interested.

so now i give him the sugar free fruit shoot with dinner as at least hes getting something to drink. will this help hydrate him? Any tips on how to get him drinking appreciated.thanks.

How about fruit cartons my ds is 3 and loves apple juice in a carton with a straw, or maybe try getting him into pouring his own drinks, adding coloured ice cubs.

Or making ice drinks? It is hard if he doesn't want to drink but just keep reminding him.He will proberly be ok snd might start drinking more in the summer but that not a good sign with the yellow wee.

Also how about juicey fruits, oranges and grapes?

If all else fails I would take a trip to see health visitor or gp, may have long term affects.

Hope it works :)

MY 3 yo old is the same - except she doesn't have the bottles either. She very rarely feels thirsty.

She will quite happily get up in the morning, and not drink anything till lunchtime, unless constantly prompted. She often only drinks one cup full of fluid in a whole day. And that's it.

The only thing that works in constant prompting. Constantly saying "you can't leave the table till you've had a drink" "have a bit more of your drink" "DD I want you to have 5 sips of your drink please" over and over constantly throughout the day.

The weird thing is I hate forcing her, and I don't do this with food AT ALL. But she also complains of pain when weeing, probably becuase her wee is too concentrated, so it burns. So I'm constantly reminding her that it may hurt when she wees if she doesn't drink too. Sigh.

That is hard, but yes children need to drink as it will affect them.Maybe you could try getting into a routine where you sit down about 11ish and have a snack time, get one of their favourite biscuits and say you can have this with a small cup of milk/juice and see if they take to that.Worth a try.

Mine doesn't like plain water and my mum has spoiled her by constantly adding juice

Now I cannot get her to just drink water or she'll chuck the bottle at me. She's 2.5 yrs old.

Maybe do try and give her a pack of apple or grape juice. Am thinking, maybe she doesn't like going to the loo? Does she have problems weeing?

I was going to say, how about homemade ice -lollies? I have heard of people finding a nice strawberry herbal tea and mixing it with 50% orange juice and then freezing it.

thanks everyone.

He is fine about going to the loo so i dont think thats the prob.

He would def like fruit juice and lollies but I thought we should avoid those because of being bad for his teeth?? or would it be ok if in carton with straw?

Can anyone recommend brands or specific drinks that might be ok for teeth, Thansk!

it is important that he drinks so as to avoid constipation which can lead to water infections...

i personally would give him squash.

or make sure that he has plenty of watery foods...fruit, watery veg etc...