terça-feira, 23 de setembro de 2014

World Water Day 2014: 9 things you should know before giving your baby water

baby carrying H2O March 22 is World Water Day. 


New mums mostly tatter about their baby’s H2O intake. When to start, how to offer, how most to offer and a lot of other queries associated to their small one’s H2O consumption. But they are mostly left confused when a pediatrician advises them to refrain from giving their baby H2O until they are during slightest 6 months of age — while a baby is exclusively breastfed. While a believe says that H2O is a concept splash that not customarily quenches lust though also does a whole lot of good to a whole body, because keep a baby off H2O during those initial months? Well, there are good reasons for that safeguard experts. Here’s all that we need to know about H2O intake and your baby’s wellbeing. 


  • As a good practice, don’t give your baby H2O during a initial 6 months as, ‘Water is a 0 calorie splash and will meddle with intake of breast divert in good quantity, that is some-more calorie dense. Calories are some-more critical for your baby — as compared to H2O — for best earthy and mental expansion during those initial months,’ says Sonali Shivlani, an Internationally Certified Pregnancy, Lactation and Child Nutrition Counsellor. For a same reason, never intermix a regulation over what is endorsed on a labels to boost H2O intake. 

  • Do not worry about dehydration. Breastfed or on regulation babies are customarily hydrated adequate with customarily feeds even in unequivocally prohibited and wet continue conditions.

  • Offering H2O to babies before to 6 months of age can also meddle with a body’s ability to catch a nutrients in breast divert or formula. Excess H2O intake can also make your baby’s stomach feel full and exclude adequate feeds.

  • Start to offer H2O to your baby once we kickstart weaning. This is a time when we should unequivocally start to be courteous about your baby’s H2O intake. Your baby can bitch in a beginning. ‘Mothers usually need to practice perseverance. Your baby will take to H2O slowly; offer few sips of H2O in a commencement after each meal. At this stage, H2O is critical to assist in a routine of digestion,’ says Sonali. Know how to start off with a routine of weaning. 

  • ‘If we boil H2O to freshen it, make certain we cold it compartment it is consumable by your baby,’ says Sonali.

  • Once we start feeding your baby solids, make it a indicate to offer your baby H2O often. ‘Don’t surrogate H2O with fruit juices or other drinks; this will customarily fill your baby with additional sugars,’ says Sonali. Also, don’t usually offer a feed if your baby cries and refuses to take water. ‘Babies don’t cry for feeds due to lust though for a comfort of suckling. You still need to offer H2O even if we reside by a final of breastfeeding,’ says Sonali. 

  • Avoid giving your baby a bottle and try to offer H2O with a ladle or use a sippy cup. Know 10 reasons because we should equivocate a bottle. 

  • Excess H2O intake during those initial months can in singular cases lead to dilution of a thoroughness of sodium in a body, unsettling a electrolyte change and causing tissues to bloat causing H2O intoxication. 

  • Have a minute conference with your pediatrician before we start your baby on water.

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World Water Day 2014: 9 things you should know before giving your baby water

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