Nutritious doctors will give mothers some
advices to solve in case that babies are lazy drinking water.
Some children are keen on playing or they
recognize that filtered water is vapid, so they are often lazy to drink water.
You can apply the following good ways to encourage children drink enough water
that body needs.
1. Let babies lazy drinking water eat more fruits
Kinds of fruit that have a lot of water
such as watermelon, cucumber, orange, pear… can provide water for babies that
are lazy drinking water.
Babies
can eat fruits such as watermelon, orange, pear… to provide water.
It is considered one of the good ways
because fruit both provides water and provides vitamins for babies’ body.
Therefore, if your children are lazy to drink water, mothers don’t hesitate and
should try this way.
2. Make water with milk
Mothers
can make a little of filtered water with milk for babies that are lazy to drink
water.
If your child is a “fan” of milk, mother
can take advantage of this thing to sure laziness to drink water of children.
Mothers can make a little of filtered water
with milk. At the beginning, mothers should make solidly with the amount of
milk that is more than filtered water and weaker after that. When babies are
familiar with this thing, mothers don’t need to make milk with filtered water
and at this time, they only need to let babies drink filtered water.
3. Use cup to let babies drink water
If your children like to drink milk by
bottle and of course, they like to drink filtered water by bottle.
Psychologists detect that drinking filtered water by cup will stimulate
children drink water more than drinking with bottle.
Consequently, to help babies not be lazy in
drinking water, mothers should practice babies to drink water with cup!
To
help babies not be lazy in drinking water, mothers should practice babies to
drink water with cup.
4. Mothers need to be patient
Mothers need to be patient when they
practice children the habit of drinking water. Mothers shouldn’t hurry to give
up or use fruit juice to replace because this thing can make babies have
difficulty in changing to drinking filtered water.
Doctors advise mothers that “Kinds of
bottles water can be unsuitable with babies because it contains the high
content of mineral. Mothers should check the content of sodium (salt) that is
less than 200mg in a liter of filtered water”.
The amount of water that babies need depends on their ages
Babies that are under 6 months old: They only need to suck mother’s milk because milk includes
nutrients and necessary water for babies.
Babies that are from 6 months old to 1
year old: Their demand about filtered water at this
time is about 200-300ml/day.
Babies that are over 1 year old: The amount of water that babies can drink depends on their demand.
Especially, after 1 year old, babies themselves can hold cup. Mothers can
practice babies the habit of drinking water. You shouldn’t wait until babies
feel thirsty and you begin to let them drink water because this thing proves
that babies lack water.
On the other hand, you can base on baby’s
weight to define the amount of water that is necessary for baby’s body.
Specifically, babies that are 4.5kg will
need 425ml of water/day; 5kg – 510ml of water/day; 6.3kg – 595ml/day; 7.2kg -
680ml of water/day; 8,1kg – 765ml of water/ day; 8,5kg - 850ml of water/ day;
9kg - 935ml of water/day; 10,9kg - 992ml of water/day; 11,8kg - 1020ml of
water/day; 12,7kg - 1077ml water/day; 13,6kg - 1105ml of water/day.
Mothers can pay attention that this amount
of water is calculated with including of water in milk and foods that babies
eat every day.
