Does anyone have any tips on getting a 12 month old to drink. She has been to the hospital for bloods for a different issue and they have said she’s dehydrated so trying to get her to drink but she won’t! I’ve tried all sorts of different bottles/cups even putting water in her mam bottle and she just keeps pushing it away!
Any hints or tips are greatly welcome!! Thank you 🩷🩷
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Milk?

no water

Add a tiny amount of dilute orange juice or black currant

I put apple peel in my daughter’s water and she loves it now. We use a Nuby sippy cup and she drinks it herself. I peel and boil an apple as a snack for her and then put some peel in her cup for her to drink

You could add fruit to naturally flavour the water that’s what originally worked for my girl x

I’ve tried a small amount of squash and flavoured water but I just don’t know what else to try to get her to drink

Will she drink out of a glass or cup she sees you drinking from? It’s the only way my daughter would drink water initially

I assume you have tried a straw? Also I know it sounds mad but my girl once was pretty poorly and the only was I got her to drink was letting her have water / juice via a syringe (you know the ones that come with calpol bottles etc) a bit tiresome but if you are desperate.

I agree with the syringe! Had to do that with my 3 yr old after he had his tonsils out!
Maybe if she thinks something is yours? Mine loves drinking (or trying) out of our bottles or trying to get my cup of tea.

What about a water bottle with a straw and you get one too that way she’s drinking like you

Okay this sounds odd but hear me out, water play. My daughter first started ‘drinking’ water through water play (she was a lot younger though) so we’d mess around and she’d drinking the water from her hands and toys etc. We then moved on to some water in our bottles and this girl is all about joining in and would drink from our Stanley’s and then we got an array of bottles for her to try and we found the 360 bottles were her fav and now she has her own little Stanley dupe. We also give her some juice at times which she likes and flavoured water.