How do you get them to drink water?

[cat811]

My ds (who is very used to bottles as was mainly ff) refuses to drink water from a bottle, and now that I've started mweaning, he refuses to drink from any kind of cup. I'd read that now they're on solids they need water or they get constiptaed-any tips for how to get water down him?!

Thanks x

Hmm.. put it somewhere you don't want them to drink from - my dd loves to try and slurp from the little recess in her babybath.
But seriously, hope you have luck finding something he'll take it from. We've two tommy tippee cups one of which she's happy with and one she's not - the latter has more holes so I think she's uncomfortable with the flow rate at the moment.

I used to just put the beaker (Tomme Tipee fairly basic one) on his tray at meal times and leave it around the place all day and let him play with it. Evemtually, he drank something!

My DS won't take water from a bottle. He takes it from a tommee tippee cup with a spout on now but he wasn't having any of it at first. I took the lid off and let him sip from the edge of the cup, fairly easy seeing as everything he gets his hands on goes in his gob. He would get wet through but he did take the water. I just kept trying the spout each day and eventually he got it.

Just persevere and eventually he wil ldrink it. I know so many people who have given their babies juice as they said they won't drink water. They will drink it, they just need to get used to it.

Both my Ds's took work to get them to drink, just put the cup to their mouth and get them to try little sips with their meal

Don't expect him to drink much.

My ds1 didn't drink water at all until he was about 2 years old. Instead we gave him very dilute apple juice (half an oz of juice to 5 or 6 oz of water) and he drank that fine. Giving juice won't harm teeth when it is so diluted and you can gradually reduce the juice further anyway. The Tommee Tippee soft spout cup worked well for him too. Somehow he never liked anything from a bottle other than milk, but this cup is non-spill but requires them to bite on it to get anything out so its a pretty easy one to figure out.

my dd loves her water out of a doidy cup - john lewis sell them online, they are amazing!! she doesn't really like the tommee tippee beakers - too much effort I think!

My ds never drank water. I, like LadyPink thought if I stuck with it, he would drink it and if he was thirsty he would drink it, so I just kept offering it and he kept refusing it, I spent a fortune on cups, bottles and beakers to try to find something he could get along with.
When he was 10m, he became constipated so I took him to the doctor who gave us supositries (sp?) which I had to insert into his rectum 3 times a day for 3 days. That was awful.
The doctor told me if he won't drink water, to get some sugar free squash to flavour it. I didn't want to be giving squash at such a young age, but didn't feel had much choice.

We were going on holiday somewhere very hot when DS was 10 months old so I was desperate for him to start drinking water. I started out with diluted fresh apple juice (no added sugar, not from concentrate)about one part juice to 2 parts water and gradually diluted more and more so that eventually we were one part juice to at least 10 parts water. From that point on it was easy and if anything we ended up at a point where we were concerned he might be drinking too much!