Hi, does anyone out there have any tips on how I can encourage my 7 month old son to drink water?  At the moment he will only drink follow on milk or juice from his bottle or off a spoon.  Also, any tips on getting him to drink out of a spouted cup as he doesn't want to that either?

Thanks... 

Hi there,

I got the winnie the pooh spouted cup in mothercare and Emma took a while to take to it. She now is taking the water fine. I would offer her the cup if she was eating something and it did take a while before she started to pick it up herself and learn to hold it up high to get the water out. I place it next to her when she eats and she picks it up when she needs it. I haven't given her fruit juice cause I read that all a baby needs is its bottled milk and water. If you want your boy to take water you may have to think about leaving out fruit juice for a while as it does take babies a while to get used to the taste of water. My daughter really likes it now so hope that you will have success.sx

Hi Angela,

I would go with the idea of gradually making the juice more diluted.

It may also help to try a few cups out - I bought the basic tommee tippee cup (the one from 4 months) and although my son would drink from it he never drank very much water and most of it he would spit out again, I had also bought the non-spill cup (from 6/7months) and for a few months he wouldn't take any water from it at all so I gave up! A month or so ago I tried him with the non-spill cup again and he now drinks and drinks from it - I think it's because he can control the rate at which the water comes out. I also have some doidy cups which I love but again most of it is spat out again because I don't think he likes having too much liquid in his mouth!

Good luck!