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Aidan is teething HORRIBLY!!! He hates milk-even if I add ovaltine he chucks the cup at me, and isn’t even drinking his formula anymore-maybe like 16 oz a day or something (and he’s not even suposed to be ON it anymore
) so that leaves water, which he is obviously sick of drinking, and juice. I can’t find any juice that won’t annoy his reflux-which is still there and not so great b/c of the teething, I’m going to take him to the doc after Christmas to ask about the reflux b/c we are running out of prevacid-she wanted him off at a year.Anyway, I’ve tried pediasure (stuff is nasty) and pedialyte (he hates it). His eating is just fine, so I’m not too worried. IT’s just annoying that he will go all day with hardly anything to drink (I decided both the cup and bottle hurt his gums). Maybe I’ll give him watered down gatorade, I used to give it to Austin all the time when he refused to drink anything else…..It would be so nice if he would just take the damn cup of whole milk, smile and chug it down!!!!!!!
I went through this for MONTHS with Myles. He gave up his bottle at 7 months!! I kept him hydrated enough by adding lots of breast milk or formula to his foods. He still eats oatmeal every morning made with 7-8 ounces of milk because he won’t drink milk from a cup and only drinks small amounts of water each day from a cup. I still spoon feed him 4 ounces of milk or formula once each day and he takes a night time bottle.
For now mabye try adding some juice or milk to his solids. I did that for months with Myles.
16 ounces isn’t too bad, really. Myles is only taking in about 17-18 ounces per day.
Teething sucks, doesn’t it?
I wish babies could teethe without pain.I am having a similar experience with Brianna..I am trying to wean her off Breastmilk, but she doesn’t really like the whole milk either! I have talked to a lot of mom’s that said don’t worry about the number of ounces..but it is hard. I Know she is drinking less than when she breastfed, becuase she doesn’t have nearly the same wet diapers. She is teething badly too. I do add milk to Briannas cereal in the AM (I upped the amount I used to put in to help with the fluids) and Brianna will ususally drink 3oz or so of the milk in the AM (I guess when she is that thirsty she will drink anything). But other than that, she does get water, but I doubt she even drinks 4 oz of that a day. My friend has a baby that self weaned at a year, AND won’t eat or drink hardly anything. She panicked about it, but the Ped said not to worry, just to watch her and eventually she started drinking things again. Have you tried white grape juice? I read something about it being good on the digestive tract (don’t hold me to that being true…I can’t remember where the article came from
). I am going to buy some of this for Brianna to try. Good luck!(goodstart is cheaper
, and a I saw that some of the little guys on here did good on it ), but I realized since he isn’t drinking all that much, it really doesn’t matter if the similac is more $$, it’s lasting a LOT longer than it used to!!-I just started giving him those probiotic drinkable yogurts..ohh man now I can’t think of the brand..Dannon maybe?? I was afraid they’d irritate his tummy, but he was fine. I will tell you this do NOT let her try to drink them herself-LOL I’m so used to tossing my 7 year old one that I opened up Aidans and handed it to him….our whole kitchen was coated within 5 mins!!! oops. He’ll also drink any other kind of drinkable yogurt, but I like the fact that the one we have is probiotic. I’m just ignoreing the milk issue right now-I’ll have to try broccoli I think I actually have some in the freezer!!!
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