Juice

[BC-MiracleTwins]

I was wondering if any of you are giving your LO's juice. Wheather it be regular or juicy juice ( no added sugar ). I've asked the Pedi about it, and said it was up to me. That there is really not a huge benefit from it, but rather have fruits than juice.

What are your thoughts?

[drakel]

Holden is sooooo skinny I figure a few extra calories won't hurt him. We mix about 3-5 ounces of juice with5-7 ounces of water, so mostly just water with a little flavor. The dr. told us it's up to us too, but not more than 6 ounces a day. I sometimes buy White House, sometimes buy Motts for Totts (which I think is watered down already, but I water it more!!)
He right now is drinking about 28-30 ounces of milk and 8-10 ounces of "water-juice" a day.

[BC-Sherb]

**barge**

Kyle loves his juice. I use the Heinz or Gerber baby juices, which have no added sugar and I put 2 ozs of juice and 2 ozs of water in there. He is 9 mths and 23lbs, so, the water/juice combo is pretty much his drink throughout the day. He only drinks about 15ozs of formula each day, which the pedi said is fine because he's a big boy. My pedi actually had me try to change him to homo milk but that didn't work out too well.

[BC-MiracleTwins]

Wow! Mine get about 18oz of milk a day.( 6-9oz for naps and bed time each ) I try to give them fluids throughout the day but most the time it ends up on them. I give them water or milk, which they will usually get about 2oz in them on thier own.

[Gift0802]

We do the watered down juice also for breakfast only. Gerber graduates now makes something called fruit splashers (I think) that is 40% juice and the rest is purified water and we use that a lot of the time and I am still watering that down. It has about 1/2 the sugar of regular 100% apple juice (I think 12/13 grams vs. 24) so I like that. I comes in three flavors all of which ds loves. I usually use the "juice" cup through out the day and as it emptys I just keep adding water so eventually it is all water. He gets milk for lunch, dinner and bedtime in a sippy. It is a personal preferance thing. I just like him to have a little variety other than water and milk (plus he is a fruit lover so he loves it).

[Curly,]

I'm not a fan. My feeling is why give my LO juice when he's fine with water? It contrinutes to rotten teeth and is an empty calorie. I'd rather fill him up with good food & give him milk at mealtimes. IMO juice can be the beginning of sugar overload, we all eat too much sugar I think, so I'd rather not offer it when water seems fine.

That's just me though, my opinion only My daycare also shares this idea too so it works for us.

[Mom2TJ]

Nolan is not on juice yet. When he starts, I'll only give him 100% juice, mixed 50/50 with water.

My other boys detested the Fruit Splashers, so I don't buy that. Just ordinary 100% apple juice. And I still only let my older boys have one glass a day.

[BC-MuttonStew]

The girls' dentist told us no juice. When we have given them juice, it is the kind that says no sugar added. It actually tastes really lite,

[clarabel]

We don't give the twins any juice at all, much to the surprise of some of my friends. The only juice DD has had was from a friend's sippy cup, when she started drinking from it during a playdate. She seemed to love it (no surprise!) They drink water and milk, out of straw sipper bottles, and that's it. They have milk with meals and snacks, but I offer it after they've started eating so that they don't fill up on the milk. The water is available all day, and I always make sure I have it with me when we go to the park or on a stroller walk. They love it, reach for it, trade bottles, and consume lots of it.

I don't see the point of juice, either -- it's just fruit sugars that train kids to think drinks have to be sweet. Also, no cup is actually leak-proof, and this way all I have to clean up is water; nothing is sticky! (I hate sticky)

Just my 2 cents!

[wintak]

LO has juice. But he's not on milk yet. I'm holding off as long as I can on the whole milk because there was a question of intolerance. I don't know that he IS LC, but for now, we're using up the frozen breast milk.

LO gets juice (only 100% which is much harder to find than one thinks) and it's watered down, as it was with my DD and DS. I do about 50/50 juice and water.

LO gets frozen BM mixed with drinkable yogourt (yogourt is a small start to see if he can take that) because he won't drink the BM from a sippy and we're done with bottles.

He gets water, too. He LOVES cranberry juice (not cranberry cocktail, that's 27% juice) and apple water juice and white grape water juice. OJ didn't settle with him that well, but it didn't settle with DD in the beginning, either.

Amy