A is EBF right now so hasn't had any water at all. We're starting purees when she's a little past six months - should we start giving water then? How much?
Also, when we're in Spain, we'll need to be very careful with water - my sister said babies shouldn't have water with sodium in it. I'm unsure whether she means Spanish tap water or bottled water, so would it be best to just not offer water but more breastmilk while we're there?
Thanks ladies, I'm so clueless with this stuff!
coconut / 8498 posts
I started giving water in a straw cup once she got the hang of solids... About 7 months. I would stick with bottled water in Spain. I only drank bottled water when I lived there, but I'm also iffy about tap water in general.
squash / 13764 posts
Our pedi said we could start with water around 6 months. I think it is generally recommended around the same time as you start solids in order to help with constipation. Our pedi said to give as much as he wants, I've been doing 2.5-3oz and he usually doesn't even finish that.
If you buy bottled water in Spain, shouldn't that be fine? But breastmilk has a lot of water in it so you should be fine just nursing while you're there too, I think!
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
You can try a brand called AquaPanna, it's what I gave my son when we were in the Mediterranean. It's got low sodium and is very neutral tasting.
squash / 13199 posts
Once you start solid food you can offer water several times a day, they usually don't drink much in the beginning. When you go on your trip just stick to bottled water by a reputable brand in Europe like Evian. If you don't find any brands you know you can just boil tap water
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
we started at 5.5 months and give her brita water in a sippy with meals (whether she's eating a snack like puffs, or solids). she doesn't drink much though..just enough to kind of wash it down. she wears most of it, or plays in it on her highchair tray!
grapefruit / 4120 posts
We were told one ounce with every meal of solids.
I wouldn't stress about giving water on your trip. So long as it's not mineral water I'm sure you're fine. I mean, it's just a trip -- Spanish kids live there their whole lives and I'm sure they drink water!
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
@travelgirl1: whoa! What are you doing in Spain?! How long will you be there? Maybe you can just wait till you come back to the States? If not bottled water then boiled and cooled??
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
I've started to give a sippy with water at solids time, but she has no interest in it. She actually wants nothing to do with it, but I offer it with her purees.
grapefruit / 4442 posts
our ped suggested 6 months. DD takes her water in a straw sippy cup. we used boiled water
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
I agree if you can wait until after your trip I would. But I do think that offered in a sippy cup of bottled water should be fine.
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
@regberadaisy: Family wedding 
She'll be 9 months by then.
In Spain we always stick to bottled water... So are you not supposed to give kids bottled water? I have a lot to learn, lol.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
@travelgirl1: oh no, bottled water is fine. But since it is a different country I would worry about where their bottled water comes from as well and it seems like there is a sodium concern as well?
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
@regberadaisy: yeah it was something my sister said... She said,give her juice instead, which I won't be doing, lol.
honeydew / 7235 posts
@travelgirl1: thanks for asking this! I was just wondering as we started solids a couple weeks ago and our next Ped appt isn't for another week and a half....
side note: where in spain!?! we're going this summer!
pomelo / 5093 posts
I started handing my daughter a straw cup with water when she started eating solids around 6 months. She just played with it for a while, then at 7 months really started drinking. So I kept giving it to her at meal times.
Funny story - at about 11 months she learned the sign for 'water' and started signing it. All the damn time. She had been wanting far more water than I'd been giving her. Fail.
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
@hellobeeboston: Alicante! We'll be there early August! How about you?
honeydew / 7235 posts
@travelgirl1: oh nice! We'll be on the other side of the country in July! Flying into Bilbao, staying in San Sebastian & then St Jean de Luz France & Biarritz France -- Basque Country!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
We started around 7 months and she prefers drinking from a straw. We give her Brita water. She doesn't drink a ton of it though.
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