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What kind of juice drink do you give your LO's

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curlygirl · 14/08/2006 23:04

I used to buy the organic diluted baby juices for my dd, she only likes the blackcurrant ones. Recently she started drinking much bigger beakers of juice with her meals (she has water between meals), and it was becoming really expensive. I tried her with diluted orange juice but she doesn't like it. I have searched for a juice or a squash that she can have but they all have added sugar or sweetners and goodness knows what else.I found an innocent looking organic squash that looked really healthy only to discover that sugar was the second highest ingredient. I have been giving her ribena with no added sugar as it stated that it was high in vit c and has few nasties in it, but my dh read on the label that it shouldn't be given to toddlers under 36 months old, dd is 21 months. Can anyone help?

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mummydear · 16/08/2006 18:07

Try a fancy kids electric toothbrush, my eldest hating having teeth cleaned but he then had a buzz light year elecetric one and thought it was great !!

Piffle · 16/08/2006 18:35

I think re the teeth thing if you give the juice around meal times it is less damaging to teeth FWIW give water in between times

gegs73 · 21/08/2006 13:51

I'm getting really paranoid after reading all this. Ds aged two has about 4 cartons of pure orange juice a week - individual ones with the straws attached. Is this really bad for his teeth, would I better stopping this, diluting it down and putting it in a beaker instead? Only thing is that he sees this as a treat and really enjoys it. Has anyone got any suggestions?

Donbean · 21/08/2006 13:56

water, plain and simple, and milk of course.

BonyM · 21/08/2006 14:07

DD1 has pure fruit juice or water.

DD2 (17mths) no juice. Only water and breastmilk. If I were to give her juice it would be very, very dilute pure fruit juice.

99redballoons · 22/08/2006 14:03

Curlygirl, a tip about sugar on the teeth, if your dd drinks lots of water after eating/drinking something sweet it helps clean out the mouth and neutralise it a bit. Obviously not like cleaning teeth, but it really does help.

My ds gets a 1/2 cup of Rocks blackcurrent at dinner and then once that's gone it's water. He's happy with that. If he has a biscuit in the day I make sure he follows up with some water. HTH

Tommy · 22/08/2006 14:04

I'm like donbean - water and milk round here.
we have even let them try juice, lemonade etc but they don't like

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