The role of water in the body is quite important, can help transport nutrients, participate in the metabolic reactions of cells, maintain stable blood pressure, regulate body temperature and remove body waste. But drinking water also has a learning curve, the wrong way to drink water can also make water into a poison that hurts our body. So, do you know how much water your baby needs to drink every day to be healthy? What do you need to pay attention to when you feed your baby water? Let’s learn about it ~ 1, how much baby needs to start drinking water before the baby is six months old, do not give the baby to drink water or distilled water. Babies need water, from breast milk and other baby food (such as milk powder) can get enough supply. Because the source of a baby’s diet is almost exclusively breast milk or formula, which is mostly water, little ones usually do not need additional water. Once your baby starts teething, then he will need fluoride to provide nutrition for the growth of new teeth, and this is the time to start letting your baby drink drinking water. 2.Signals of baby’s dehydration Look at the diapers: Within 24 hours, baby wet less than 6 diapers, or within 6 hours the diapers are not wet. Look at the urine: the baby’s urine is dark yellow and smells heavy. Look at the tongue: the baby often licks his lips with his tongue, his lips are dry, and his tongue is thick and smelly. Look at the stool: the baby’s stool is dry and hard. Look at the eye sockets: when there is severe dehydration, the baby’s fontanel or eye sockets are slightly sunken compared to normal. Look at the tears: When the baby is severely dehydrated, the baby’s tears are relatively reduced when crying or there are no tears. Look at appetite: insufficient water, the gastrointestinal tract secretion of gastric juice decreased, affecting the baby’s appetite. 3, to feed the baby water considerations half an hour before meals can not feed the baby water Although more water can accelerate the metabolism is beneficial to health, but for small babies, inappropriate time to drink water but easy to affect the body Oh! One of the unsuitable time to feed water is before the baby eat. Drinking water before meals can make the gastric juices dilute, not conducive to food digestion, drink the stomach bulge, but also affect the baby’s appetite. Therefore, it is necessary to advance a little more and let the baby drink a small amount of water before half an hour before meals, which can promote the secretion of saliva and help the baby digest food. You can’t feed your baby water within 2 hours before going to bed Younger babies can’t fully control urination after a deep sleep, so if they drink too much water before going to bed, they will easily lose urine. Even if they don’t lose urine, getting up several times a night to urinate will affect their sleep. So mothers try not to feed their babies water within 2 hours before bedtime; if it is really necessary, try to control the amount of water and let your baby lick a little to quench his thirst. What is the best water for babies? Boiled water is the best choice of water for babies. After the multi-layer purification process, the microorganisms in the water have been killed in the high temperature, and the calcium and magnesium in it are very beneficial to the body. But be careful to give your baby fresh plain water, because the biological activity of boiled water exposed to air for more than 4 hours will lose more than 70%. What is the best temperature? Research has found that boiled and cooled to 20-25 degrees Celsius water, has a specific biological activity, it is very close to the characteristics of the baby’s body cellular fluid, so there is a good affinity with the body’s cells, easier to penetrate the cell membrane, into the cells, and can promote metabolism and enhance immune function. Too cold or too hot water, will damage the baby’s delicate gastric mucosa, affecting digestive capacity, so generally in the summer it is best for babies to drink the same room temperature of plain water, while the winter is drinking about 40 degrees Celsius is the most appropriate plain water. 4, how much water baby needs to drink every day Age, room temperature, activity, body temperature, milk or food in the water content and other factors, will affect the baby’s need for water. 6-12 months: 120-160 ml per kilogram of body weight per day; 2-3 years: 100-140 ml per kilogram of body weight per day; depending on the baby’s own situation, parents can supplement their babies with about 10%-15% of their body weight of water per day. As long as the baby’s urine is normal, you can let the baby drink a small amount of water several times according to the actual situation; if the baby sweats a lot, you should give the baby to increase the number of times to drink water, rather than the amount of water. 5, how to deal with the baby who does not drink water 1, you can wrap a brightly colored flower cloth outside the feeding bottle to attract the baby’s attention. 2, you can put a small amount of warm water inside some milk powder, sugar, a variety of fruit juices, vegetable water, etc., the taste of plain water to change, and so the baby adapted, the added substances gradually reduced, until completely drink plain water. 3, the baby does not drink, do not force-feed, you can change a time to feed again! 4, you can let the baby take in the required water from thin rice, soup, fruit and other foods, in the diet should also ensure a balanced diet. 5.Baby in infancy has a strong ability to imitate, so the parents’ example is very important. In order for babies to develop good habits of drinking water, parents should take the lead and set an example by taking the lead in quitting the habit of drinking drinks, and it is best not to have sweet drinks at home.