Juice & Milk
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When Is It Okay to Give Juice
Asked by S.T. from Kansas City
on May 21, 2009
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hello all of you wonderful momma's out there. Thanks in advance for all the positive advice. My question is, when is it okay to give juice to my baby? He is 2 months o...
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- My daughter is almost 5. When she was a baby, they advised me to not give juice at all. Empty calories, little to no nutritional value. I did juice later when we to...
- S., they don't need juice. There is no nutritional value before the age of 6 months. They also reccomend you give juice in a cup not in a bottle so that they don't get...
- Everyone has to decide for themselves, but I would NOT give him juice yet. Water and breastmilk (or formula) is really all they need at this age. There is no need to g...
How Do I Get My Toddler to Drink Milk from a Sippy Cup
Asked by P.B. from Seattle
on June 19, 2008
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My son just turned 14 months and I have been trying to get him off the bottle completely. He takes water and juice just fine from a sippy cup since 11 months, but he r...
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- I would suggest you get rid of the bottles and go cold turkey. He probably won't drink much milk at first, but keep offering, and make sure he's getting calcium in ot...
- i also have a daughter who would not drink milk from anything because i nursed her and she wouldn't even take a bottle so i started making her banana milk i put a bana...
- Well, my question is why you want him to drink milk? It is not healthy. If you need calcium in his diet there are other healthier ways. Why juice, too? So, he can easi...
Fun with Pooping and Prune Juice
Asked by J.R. from Grand Rapids
on May 7, 2009
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My one year old son has had a hard time pooping lately. It is awful to watch, he squats and then screams like it REALLY hurts to go and his poop is really hard. We j...
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- Maybe back off the milk give water and a liquid non-dairy calcium suppliment.If you can't do no milk try the less fat version. Also orange juice in my experience works...
- maybe try apple juice? it's a little gentler then prune and was recommended by our pediatrician... also pear juice!
- sounds like a need for more fiber. realize that for all of us that when we don't have enough fiber, poop will expand the 'walls' where it's slowly moving through. ...
Smelly Sippy
Asked by J.P. from Chicago
on January 29, 2010
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My son uses a Playtex insulated sippy. It looks like a travel cup for adults, but it has a non-spill rubber part inside. We use the cup for milk occasionally, and no...
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- Please don't be offended by this question, but are you sure you're washing all the parts? I've had clients in the past who didn't know the rubber regulators were remo...
- throw it away, who knows what's causing the smell. sippy cups need to be replaced every so often anyhow
- Try washing it with a very warm soapy water and baking soda mixture. Rinse it well, then put about 1/4 cup of vinegar in it and give it a good shaking to get the vine...
Is It Ok to Drink Deit Soda If Breastfeeding
Asked by K.L. from Columbia
on April 3, 2008
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So I'm wondering if it is ok to drink deit soda if i'm breastfeeding???
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- My sister is a family practice doc, and she told me that aspartame's effects aren't fully understood--as with so many chemicals that we regularly use daily--and she wo...
- I too drank diet while breastfeeding. I had switched to caffeine free while pregnant, but was told my doctor that caffeine in moderation would not affect my baby. I ...
- Krisina, In my opinion it is never ok to drink diet soda. Teh artificial sweenter that they put in the soda, is toxic, habit forming and leads to obisity. How can this...
Sippy Cups
Asked by K.E. from New York
on March 13, 2008
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After reading the question about stopping the playing of games with a sippy cup...that reminded me of my question: Is there a straw-based cup that doesn't leak? I've...
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- On a whim, I bought a cup with a straw of a sort made into it at Walmart for my daughter (22 months)yesterday. It was a cheap cup shaped like an animal where the stra...
- I have a set of cups from tupperware that use a regular straw. They ar not leak proof - but they are the best I have found. They only leak if totally upside down or ...
- This is not so much finding things as finding out things. My sister has a friend who is a speach therapist. she said that sippy cups were not good for children as th...
Sippy Cups and Whole Milk
Asked by K.G. from Seattle
on October 27, 2009
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I have a thirteen-month old son, and I'm trying to transition him from bottles and formula to sippy cups and whole milk. He will only drink water out of sippy cups, a...
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- With my son we had to use the straw cups first then the soft, I think they were Nuby, sippy cups. It was only after a very long time of those that he transitioned to m...
- I flavored my daughters milk, Just a half teaspoon of Nesquick and her milk was a lot more interesting. It's not really an issue for me, because we brush teeth afterwa...
- Hi, K.! :) I had this same problem. It's really common. The little babies just need time to adjust to this new thing. People just have to have the patience to be c...
No More Sippy's at Home But...
Asked by H.J. from Minneapolis
on February 16, 2010
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What do we do about drinks when we are out. We went to the gym the other day with the kids and I brought two cups and a bottle of water to give them drinks. I really d...
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- We haven't found a straw cup that doesn't leak yet. We got 2 Camel Bak cups for our kids at Christmas (3.5 and 22 months), and neither of them understand the valve ...
- I bought both my boys (at that time, a little over 1 and 4) their own Klean Kanteens. We drive 6 and 8 hours regularly to get to see grandma and grandpa, and the kids ...
- We have both the Sigg and Camelbak water bottles in the kid's sizes. They work great for water when we're out and about and at home. We haven't had any problems with e...
Transitioning Milk from Bottle to Sippy...
Asked by S.S. from New York
on March 28, 2007
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My 14 month old won't take milk in his sippy - I have tried - though not consistent to give him his milk in a sippy cup and not in a bottle but when he hands me back t...
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- I just went through this not long ago, in fact asked the same ? on this group. He gave up the bottle cold turkey w/ only some crankiness for a day or two. Would not ...
- You might want to just transition gradually one feeding at a time to a cup. Start with the morning and then make the last one the one at night. Also maybe you can ha...
- I can't help with the bottle to cup transition and my son is 9 months old and still only using a bottle however I would like to mention something about the tantrums......
How to Get My 2 Year Old Son to Drink Less Milk? Without Drinking Juice?
Asked by M.T. from Minneapolis
on November 14, 2011
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Hi, my son is 25 months old, and his doctor has been telling him to not drink more than 24 oz of milk, so he has appetite for other foods. The problem is, he LOVES mi...
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- Is his growth or development being impeded, by his milk drinking???? Is he healthy??? My son.... is a milk lover. LOVES, milk. So was I, when I was a child. An...
- we also had a milk baby....ended up going down to skim milk around 2 1/2 and then also started on water....with about a 1/8 of an orange squeezed into the water...oh m...
- A DOCTOR told you that it's OK to give him Crystal Light?!!! Good lord. Major red flag here. Your doctor may want to re-visit her nutrition classes, if she ever ha...
