How much juice to give?

[wellsie]

DS is now fully established on 1 solid meal a day. I am still offering him milk at this feed but today he only took 1oz. I am also giving him pear juice (only thing I can get him to take at the mo.) but how much should I be giving him. I let him have 2oz today, I think he would've had more but I'm worried that too much will give him tummyache but then not enough will dehydrate him.
Please help.
Thanks
Wellsie

His milk levels may flucate day to day
Juice wise I would water it down either half and half or quarter pear- 3/4 water- so he still gets the taste, if he won't just take water

Wellsie

Have you tried the baby juice that you can buy in the shops like boots, tesco, sainsburys, I gave them to my daughter when she was a baby/toddler, they are very watered down to the correct amount, I think Farleys do it in various flavours, also they do a small bottle that you can dilute to taste yourself, I found them excellent as they weren't as potent as Ribena, Robinsons and such like.

I was also told to water down juice too, but not sure the reasoning behind it?!

Must admit ds just got water and milk. Juice was introduced at 11mo and then only with breakfast or lunch.

Sorry, not much help!

I was told by a health visitor once that juice will fill children up so do not give to chldren who are bad eaters (this is what DD was like). Sure enough if I gave DD juice with her meals she would drink all the juice and leave her food - if I gave her h=juice as a drink between meals she was never hungry at mealtimes She's 4 now but she knows she can only have it after her meals as otherwise it will fill he up. I know that all children are different and you have to do what works with your child but my advice would be to stick to water and milk for as long as you can.

Good Luck

try really hard to get him on water, a friend's dd has just been advised (she's now 8) to cut out juice altogether because of tooth decay. if they don't develop the 'taste' for juice and only see it as a treat then it's much better for them. otherwise try diluting weaker & weaker until it's barely coloured (juice, not "juice drink" which often has other things in it ie extra sugar)

my dd is 21 mths and still has not had juice, she really likes water though.
I don't know of a reason why to give juice though over water at this age?

Agree with the others. Forgot to say ds only gets juice after breakfast otherwise he'll drink it rather than eat, I guess cos it's sweet. Had to learn that the hard way!

Most fruit juices just arent very nutritious, plus can rot teeth. I think max. 1 oz/day (pure juice) for each yr of life under 4 (so 1 oz under 1, 2 oz under 2, etc.) is a good rule of thumb.

Feel like a bad mummy having read the postings. Perhaps I'd better explain.
DS has been a real nightmare trying to get him to take anything other than milk. I've tried water at various times of the day, leaving it a few days and then trying again but he just won't have it.
He was holding onto his poo for 4days at a time and we were quickly approaching the weaning phase so I'm afraid I had to resort to juice.
But here in lies another prob. He wouldn't take anything. I tried apple, blackcurrant, orange, etc until I hit upon pear juice. It is the baby variety and we are starting to water it down, so please, please don't beat me up about this.

So, anyway, back to my original question - How much should I let him have?

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