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My toddler doesn't drink enough

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Lindorballs · 19/11/2016 18:09

My DD (just 3) hardly drinks anything through the day and I'm getting desperate. Left to her own devices she drinks approximately 100ml of water or sugar free squash all day. She has milk on her cereal and access to a drinks bottle of weak squash all day. I resorted to squash in desperation because she used to love it as a treat and would guzzle a whole cup so I thought letting her have it all the time would encourage her to drink more but once the novelty had worn off she went back to her old non-drinking ways. She doesn't really seem to like milk as a drink either hot or cold. She will have a few sips then leave it. I've also tried hot chocolate and undiluted fresh juice as treats to see if this encourages more drinking. No joy. It's very hard work getting her to drink more. She is very strong minded and independent and kicks up a huge fuss if I "force" her to drink more eg by saying she's not allowed to get down from the table until she's finished her drink. Weirdly at her nursery (3 days a week) they report that she drinks reasonably well and will happily drink milk and water there. If left to her own devices she only does 1-2 wees a day - quite big volume but definitely quite dark yellow. She still wears a nappy overnight and it is heavy but not bursting if that makes sense. Any ideas?

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HopelesslydevotedtoGu · 19/11/2016 21:10

I've just got out of bed to make some 50:50 ice lollies after reading this thread!

My toddler loves drinking bath water so if desperate I will pop in bath with no bubbles and lots of cups and flannels (to suck water from- ew)

Left to her own devices she often drinks little and gets constipated.

As she so often leaves drinks untouched I've got out of the habit of automatically giving them to her at meals Blush

Wet food like watermelon, cucumber works for us

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