juice for 8wk old baby

[jodie1984]

hi my 8wk old baby is on gina ford routine and she says he can have dilute peach juice from 8wks, is this baby peach juice as i can only find peach and pear is this ok or do i use robinsons peach juice??

[compo]

Not sure why you would want to give anything other than milk at this age. Are you breastfeeding?

[WigWamBam]

Sorry to disagree with the blessed Gina but I wouldn't give juice to a baby as young as that at all.

[aloha]

You do not need juice at all for an 8 week old baby. If you are breastfeeding all you need is breastmilk, if you are formula feeding then you might consider giving plain water but you don't need to. Certainly don't give squash!
Your baby doesn't need anything but milk though. And fruit juice seems like madness to me at 8weeks.

[Tommy]

doesn't need anything else - don't get them onto juice at this age!

[Pruni]

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[Hattie05]

I hope that Gina was talking about making your own peach juice!!. Don't touch robinsons or baby juice.

In fact leave juice well alone until your baby is older! Breastfed babies don't need anything other than their milk.

Not sure that bottlefed babies need anything else either - does anyone else know??

[jodie1984]

i am bottle feeding, i was just wondering i wasnt sure, i just had a quick look in tesco today and they were all 4mths+ so i dint buy any

[zippitippitoes]

I think if you need anything additional then I would stick to water

[GeorgieVickyLou]

Personally i would stick to Milk at this age, or maybe some cooled boiled water if thirsty. (I followed G Ford for a 6 weeks, then give up on it - as soon i stoped DD slept through the night!)

[Hattie05]

sorry jodie, i think all our posts crossed. Didn't mean to duplicate what everyone else had said! .

Gina Ford is not everyones cup of tea, and although i havn't read the book, she seems to have some very odd ideas.

[jodie1984]

thankyou, i will leave it alone then, with it being quite warm i was a bit worried he was going to get dehydrated, i tried cooled boiled water but he just spits it out. i guess he will let me know if he is thirsty

[LIZS]

I wouldn't bother. If they are thirsty they will drink water or milk. Certainly would n't use a squash drink below a year and if you start with juice it will be harder to avoid it later.

[WigWamBam]

Thinking about it, I think I read somewhere (might even have been on MN) that what Gina Ford actually recommends is the spring water with a hint of peach juice that Boots sell, it's apparently labelled as being suitable from 1 month - but I still wouldn't touch it with a barge pole!

[beansprout]

Same here. Why teach them to have a sweet tooth?

[Lakota]

I was told that babies definitely shouldn't have even plain bottled water - too high in certain salts and minerals apparently - unless you are on holiday abroad in which case Evian is the best one (if the tap water is dodgy). My DS didn't like boiled water either at first, but will drink it if he's thirsty.

[hunkermunker]

I'd not give juice to a baby that young. Mind you, I don't really see juice as a necessary daily drink at any age. DS is 17mo and he's never had it - but that's because he loves water so much.

I don't drink squash or juice though, so it never really occurs to me to offer it to DS! Poor deprived child

[GeorgieVickyLou]

I know the MIL gives our DD cooled boiled water when she has her if she thinks she is thirsty but we have never given her anything other then her milk - she's 5 months now.

[fqueenzebra]

GF is very unspecific about which kind of peach juice, but she does suggest from 6 weeks+. If you believe her, it may as well be Robinson's.

[hunkermunker]

To me, that's akin to weaning. It's introducing something other than milk into the system.

[hermykne]

jodie, what book does she , gina, say that in? is not water as an afternoon taste, just to keep them on track for a milk feed at 5pm?
plus have to agree with the others milk (either) is more than adequate for 8wks olds?

[fqueenzebra]

CLBB mentions peach juice in the section for routines from 6weeks to (can't remember... 8 weeks? 12 weeks?). Kids asleep in library, so can't go look it up right now.

[jodie1984]

its in the CLBB routine for 6-8wks she said if he is 8wks old he can have well diluted peach juice instead of cooled boiled water

[Windermere]

My Gina Ford book says that juice should not be given until 6 months and even then she does not recommend it.

[oooggs]

DS 20mths doesn't even have juice only milk or water

[Seona1973]

It says 'at 4:15pm - offer a drink of cooled boiled water or well diluted juice no later than 4.30pm. (If once your baby reaches 8 weeks and refuses water, try him with water with a hint of peach juice)' Thats for a baby at 6-8 weeks.

I didnt actually follow the GF plan and hadnt noticed that before in there. My dd never really had extra water unless it was very hot and she never took more than a couple of sips. She didnt increase the amount of water she took until she was being weaned and even then she took very little water for a few months. i always figured she made up for it with her formula anyway.