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At that age, LO was drinking quite a bit of water, maybe around 6oz.
http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-would-be-considered-to-be-too-much-water-for-lo
(no one really responded to that thread. ha!)

What is her solid intake? LO drinks about 5oz of water per day, nurses 2-3 times, and gets 4 oz of pumped milk at bedtime. I obviously don't know how much she's drinking when she nurses, but she nurses for 3-4 minutes total whereas she used to nurse 15ish minutes. And two months ago she was drinking 7-8 oz in her bedtime bottle. I know her milk intake is much less these days, but I'm attributing it to her solid intake increasing.

ETA: We offer water at meals, too. And any other time throughout the day when she's not nursing.

@mediagirl: hm. do you know just how much of her solids she is actually intakeing?

@mediagirl: I don't really remember. I just know now that she is a year, at daycare they get WCM at meals plus water at snack.

I was just thinking that if you are concerned then I would think about trying milk/formula in the cup sometimes.

It sounds to me like she is transitioning more to solids. Maybe offer her formula before she has her solid meal so she will take more of it?

we have the opposite problem, kind of!

LO is 10.5 months, eats 3 meals a day and one snack. He drinks 7 oz formula from a cup at each meal, and 4-5 oz formula at his snack. (total about 25+ oz a day), he eats quite a bit at each meal as well.

our problem is that he doesn't like water at all and probably hasnt had more than a few teaspoons his whole life! he seems to not know what to do with it in his mouth and ends up coughing :). he also makes a yucky face with water

he doesn't use a bottle or sippy/straw cups (refuses all), but prefers to be fed from a regular cup. which is fine, but i'm worried about when we go on a plane in a month!

hope it works out for your LO! great that she likes water, though!

@tysonja: Our LO didn't like water or the sippy cup until she had a stomach bug. We were giving her grape pedilyte in a sippy cup and she LOVED it. We just gradually watered the pedialyte down more and more and now she drinks water.

@tysonja: You also could just try to do a fruit infused water instead of juice. Just like people drop a lemon into the water you can do the same thing with cucumber, strawberries, orange slices, etc to give the water flavor without adding the sugar from juice.