water?

How much water are kids supposed to have at 10 months..Liam has never really used a sippy cup well.. still not really..but today tried water from a bottle and it worked..he has bottles four hourly and one or two times at night..

We have 3BFs a day one at about 10am, one at about 2pm and one at 7ish (before each nap), water, Lily has a nuby straw sippy cup that she's had since 7 months, she never got the hang of the normal non straw sippy cups and she drinks anywhere from half - all of it over the course of the day. But if it's really hot she can drink 2 bottles worth which is about 150-200mls I'd say. Or however much the bigger baby bottles hold. (They're 9mo+ sippy cups)

DS has 3 bottles per day (sometimes less at the moment as he's teething and refusing his bottle a lot) but drinks approx 3-5 full cups of water from his sippy cup. He LOVES water, I was concerned at one point that he was drinking too much!

I'd say after these two next teeth come through is feeds will drop back again to two plus solids and still the water.

I have a sippy bottle thing that I just refill during the day and leave about for DS to drink out of.

DS is still having loads of BF during the day and to be honest couldn't care less if it is loads or not haha. He likes and still grows and also keeps him hydrated...so does it really matter?

We tried quite a few before we found one that DS would drink much water from and even then he really only drinks half of it (so maybe 100mls) - that is until a couple of weeks ago when I left it at someone's house and tried a straw one again and he drank about 300mls straight away! So maybe try a couple of different ones?

He also seems to prefer my water bottle, so you could just offer that too, especially on hot days?

i agree with nutella.

The baby I look after twice a week has just turned 11months, but has been having 3x bottles a day (230ml) since 8months. She has water with her solids out of a bottle, although they've just started giving her a sippy cup in the last couple of weeks. I've never had to top up her water during the day so she doesn't have a whole bottle of it, and isn't interested when I offer her some at other times when she's not eating.

So to answer your question, I have no idea how much they're supposed to be having (can't remember back to this time last year when DD was 10months lol) but I'm sure he will drink if he's thirsty (maybe?)

My kids were driking heaps of water by 8 months and at 10 months were having 2 bottles, morning and night, and then milk on their breakfast etc etc

All in there own time heh KA I do find these wee beings so amazing... at the end of the day no matter how much we try and get them to do something, unless they are ready they just wont do it LOL

Jake wasnt a big water drinker either, he was probably around the same age as Liam... he now has about 200ml of water and 300 ml of milk a day (didnt like cows milk until a few weeks ago either).