Word to the Wise

Babies need to learn to like drinking water at a young age. When my son was just an infant, I asked his doctor if I could give him water bottles because he always had white residue on his tongue from the formula. She said that it was unnecessary because his formula had enough water in it. So he seriously only drank formula for the first year of his life. Once he was a year old I started giving him milk in place of his formula. At this point my son at never even been exposed to pure water, so as I attempted to get him to drink water; one can probably imagine the difficulties that I had to deal with. My son now has five cavities, and I feel like the worst mother in the world. I told the dentist that I have always diluted his juice and he has never had pop. Dentist said only water, no juice or milk unless at meals. Wow, this was fun attempting to get him adjusted. My advise to any new parent, make sure that your child is used to drinking a lot of water at a very young age.