In most cases the small children who are on breastfeeding receive enough liquid from maternal milk and do not need an additional source of moisture. However in certain cases, for example, when the child is raised artificially, additional liquid can be necessary, and in this case you need to visit the pediatrician who will define, as well as than it is necessary to dopaivat the kid.
Instruction
1. The baby who is not a year old yet needs every day 100 ml of water on 1 kg of weight. You will be able easily to count how many water is necessary for your child, knowing the mass of his body.
2. Buy for the child special children's water in bottles – it differs from adult cleaning with bigger degree and low mineralization. You store water in the fridge not longer than 48 hours.
3. Also to give to drink the kid since four months it is possible to use fruit and vegetable juice. Begin with several drops of apple juice which the child receives before chest feeding.
4. Gradually you lead up the volume of juice which is drunk by the child, to 30 ml. After seven months the child can give citrus, strawberry, grape and tomato juice. Up to five months the child cannot give juice with pulp. Include such juice in a diet of the kid only from six-month age.
5. From third or fourth month of the child it is possible to give to drink special herbal tea for children. Make a teaspoon of a dry camomile in a glass of boiled water, add fructose and make within five-ten minutes. Do not give to the child more than 100 ml of tea a day.
6. Begin always with single-component drink – it will give the chance to quickly define allergen if at the child the allergic reaction to unusual ingredient of juice or tea began.
7. You watch in hot weather that the child received enough liquid – dehydration can negatively affect his health. In warm season regularly give to the child the fresh purified water which is slightly sweetened with fructose.