juice versus water

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I have a two year old daughter who has been the easiest healthy, non sweeties, water and milk only 'yuk' to any squash and loves vegetables and fruit and is in the 98th percentile for her weight and 75th for her height. I also have a nine month daughter who was in the 25th percentile for her weight and 50th for her height, who has been fussy from day one of weaning, had 'rotavirus' last week and had nothing but blackcurrant dioralyte for a week due to unbelievable amounts of liquid spurting from both ends for six days, and will now drink NOTHING but cow and gate apple and blackcurrant from a bottle, despite being almost weaned onto water from a cup before she was ill. Shw has dropped loads of weight and will simply not drink water any more, despite being obviously thirsty as when the juice arrives she drinks 3-4 ounces. I am concerned about the effect on her (currently only one!) teeth, and don't want her to drink juice from a bottle at all. Any ideas?

Try to water it down a little bit, then more water as time goes on. Hopefully it should be so weak eventually, that she will go back to water. My DD (2.3) only had water until she was 2, then I let her have watered down orange juice, then she wouldn't have water, asked for juice all the time. I just made it weaker and weaker now she accepts that she is only allowed juice at meal time and hapilly takes water again.

they all go through funny stages of wanting specific things, I would try and ride it through until she is taking more food etc and is gaining weight again. At least it's something!

water it down more each time and then it will be back to water