ever since ds was on dioralyte he hasnt touched water, is juice ok?he

[michelle89]

hey
now its getting warmer, especially when we are out we have given our 17week son water, not alot, about 20ml. he had gastroenteritis just over a week ago and had blackcurrant dioralyte, since tasting that, he just spits out water.

we have got cow and gate juice for 4months+ is this ok to give him now? and how much do you think i should be giving him?

he is on hungry baby milk at the moment and giving him 8oz (240ml) every 4hours and sometimes is still hungry, we are planning on weening him in about 4weeks because hes getting too hungry now.

Hmm I would probably try to stick with the water for now if you can rather than juice. I am trying to remember how much water my DS was having at that age anyway and I don't think he was taking much until he was weaned then he seemed to get into it.

We started baby rice at 5 months and later a bit of pureed apple and went from there. DS was a big baby and ready for it by then.

DD didn't have any water until she was weaned, but since she was bf, if she was thirsty I'd just whop a boob out!