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You can start giving your baby water when she is six months old. Before this age, your baby will get all the hydration she needs from breastmilk or formula.
Adding water before six months will leave less room in her stomach for the crucial nutrition she would otherwise receive. At six months, you can introduce small amounts of water to help introduce her to the feeling that water can quench her thirst too.
Even then, water should never completely replace breastmilk or formula, which should be her main drink up to 12 months of age.
For more resources on what your baby can and cannot consume in those early stages, check out more parenting Q&A content here.
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You can start giving your baby water when she is six months old. Before this age, your baby will get all the hydration she needs from breastmilk or formula.
Adding water before six months will leave less room in her stomach for the crucial nutrition she would otherwise receive. At six months, you can introduce small amounts of water to help introduce her to the feeling that water can quench her thirst too.
Even then, water should never completely replace breastmilk or formula, which should be her main drink up to 12 months of age.
For more resources on what your baby can and cannot consume in those early stages, check out more parenting Q&A content here.
The post When Can a Baby Start Having Water? appeared first on Focus on the Family.
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