Juice?

sroszc · July 2012

I was reading a post on the Toddler board and was reading that a lot of people incorporate juice/watered down juice into their LO's daily drink intake. I never offer juice. He's gotten a sip of lemonade here or there when we're out at an event but that's it. We don't offer juice at home. Should I? I just figured it had a ton of sugar in it and that as long as I'm giving him plenty of fresh fruits and veggies that we should be fine.

Is everyone here doing juice for their LO? And am I depriving him of something if I'm not? My pedi once recommended some apple juice to 'soften' his stools but that was a while ago and I just upped his intake of fruits and it seemed to work.

SugarSnap83 · July 2012

I give Noah "juice". And by "juice" I mean a cup of water and a splash of V8 Splash. I don't think kids need juice, but I guess I offer it as something a little different than water or milk.

enjoylife · July 2012

We don't do juice either. He only drinks milk and water and we haven't had any issues. He loves fruit and certain veggies. I figure he will learn about juice later on (daycare or preschool and then we can start the watered down stuff) I was never a big juice drinker growing up and Dh and I do smoothies every once in awhile that we will share with A but we dont drink juice.

star1123 · July 2012

No juice here either! I feel the same way you do though sometimes. I do think that it doesn't benefit him as far as nutritionally, so it's not necessary. My son was 27 pounds at his 18 month visit, so I am not concerned about weight gain.

I have given him a sip here and there of my flavored water, and he hates it! It's fine by me since he loves plain water, so that makes me happy.

missmuffin87 · July 2012

I don't see the point to juice. It's practically all sugar. We just offer lots of fruit and veggies.

sroszc · July 2012

Ok, phew! I'm not crazy

pitterpatter129 · July 2012

We don't generally do juice either. He did get two glasses of water + a bit of apple juice today, but that's because I'm CRAVING apple juice and he wanted mine. Usually we don't do juice at all. His daycare gives it everyday for snack, but Nate and another boy just had milk instead. I don't think they are missing out.

bosha711 · July 2012

We don't give DS juice. He's had it watered down about 3 times ever.

The most recent time was watered down V8 Splash at my mom's b/c he went from no fever to suddenly it being 102.7 & he didn't want regular water. He had been running around a lot with his older cousins, so I figured it would help more than hurt in that instance.

I made a point to not even call it "juice" b/c he loved it so much & I didn't want him knowing what it is called, lol, I am so lame.

jillybean800 · July 2012

A gets about 4 ounces of juice daily at snacktime. It helps his really hard poops. That, along with lots of actual fruit, AND benefiber keeps him moving to one poop a day. I also like that I can bring along a small juice box when we go somewhere. But we don't do juice every time he drinks or anything, and I don't really think 4 ounces is a big deal. He loves water just as much, so no addiction problems either. He knows it's a snack time thing.

sroszc · July 2012

bosha711:
We don't give DS juice. He's had it watered down about 3 times ever.
The most recent time was watered down V8 Splash at my mom's b/c he went from no fever to suddenly it being 102.7 & he didn't want regular water. He had been running around a lot with his older cousins, so I figured it would help more than hurt in that instance.
I made a point to not even call it "juice" b/c he loved it so much & I didn't want him knowing what it is called, lol, I am so lame.

Haha, that is actually a really good idea. As soon as DS knows the name of something he gets obsessed with it and yells it out and signs 'more' until he gets it. I'll just keep the word juice out of his vocabulary.

sroszc · July 2012

jillybean800:
A gets about 4 ounces of juice daily at snacktime. It helps his really hard poops. That, along with lots of actual fruit, AND benefiber keeps him moving to one poop a day. I also like that I can bring along a small juice box when we go somewhere. But we don't do juice every time he drinks or anything, and I don't really think 4 ounces is a big deal. He loves water just as much, so no addiction problems either. He knows it's a snack time thing.

This made me laugh Thank goodness for no juice withdrawals!

p.s. not judging juice givers, I just really thought I missed a memo based on the responses in another post

Strunella · July 2012

No juice. DS only drinks milk and water. The pedi said it was ok to give him a little juice watered down, but I don't see the need for it. I figure there is such a limited time in his life that I can actually control what he eats and drinks, so for now, no juice!

Smores730 · July 2012

We never did juice in this house... until #1 started MDO. Everyone there drank juice for lunch so I started sending juice too because I felt bad. Then it was in the house and ever since every so often she'll ask for it for lunch at the house too. It was only a matter of time before #2 figured out that she was getting something he wasn't and so yes, he gets juice maybe 3-4x a week. 100% juice, watered down.

dee12807 · July 2012

We give juice. T gets one juice box (mixed 1/2 & 1/2 with water) every other day. He's a decent fruit eater, but I'm lucky if he eats 4 servings of veggies a week. The juice we get is a serving of fruit and a serving of veggies. He never asks for juice though. He really only asks for water or milk. I think if he were a better veggie eater we would only give/offer it for special occasions.

bosha711 · July 2012

Yeah, I don't judge, either. While we don't give it to DS & I'd rather he not have it, I don't think it's a big deal if he were to have it every once & a while.

Five Months to Plan · July 2012

She does get 2 sippy cups of juice a day to keep things moving. She eats lots and lots or fruits and veggies, but we have major constipation problems without that juice. We even have to really limit our milk 3 serving and no applesauce or banana here. Those things all make it worse. It is not my first choice, but it works for us. She also drinks and loves water. We only do 100% juice. We do not do things like leomade, kool aid etc.

lrn327 · July 2012

C might have it once or twice a month but it's pretty rare and would only be a couple ounces total. I don't see the point really b/c his poops definitely don't need it! Besides, this way he sees it as a fun treat and not something to be expected (like milk).

enjoylife · July 2012

sroszc:
bosha711:
We don't give DS juice. He's had it watered down about 3 times ever.
The most recent time was watered down V8 Splash at my mom's b/c he went from no fever to suddenly it being 102.7 & he didn't want regular water. He had been running around a lot with his older cousins, so I figured it would help more than hurt in that instance.
I made a point to not even call it "juice" b/c he loved it so much & I didn't want him knowing what it is called, lol, I am so lame.
Haha, that is actually a really good idea. As soon as DS knows the name of something he gets obsessed with it and yells it out and signs 'more' until he gets it. I'll just keep the word juice out of his vocabulary.

Lol we have kept "cookie" out of A's vocab. We use the word cracker for crackers and cookies instead. Sometimes he gets a cookie sometimes a cracker.... Sneaky parents

amberleeb · July 2012

She has never had it and we probably won't for a long time. Our Pedi does not recommend it before the age of 2.

Dana86 · July 2012

I think M gets juice maybe once every other month. She prefers milk over just about everything and I'd much rather give her milk than juice. I have friends who pretty much only give their kids juice and it drives me nuts and has caused differences in their health but they still get juice. Anytime I watch them they only get the option of milk or water.

MrsDe2008 · July 2012

Sam's never had juice before...besides the occasional sip of ice tea or something, but nothing on a daily basis besides milk and water.

theuntaggablek · July 2012

sroszc:
bosha711:

I made a point to not even call it "juice" b/c he loved it so much & I didn't want him knowing what it is called, lol, I am so lame.

Haha, that is actually a really good idea.

Totally agree - Bosha's brilliant for not calling it juice! Wish I could rewind to the pre-knowledge of juice days. (DH drinks a fair amount of juice, and now we hear the constant please juice? pretty-much everytime we open the fridge!)

I wanted to avoid it entirely, but we now do watered-down juice a few times a week because on hot days, we want to be sure he's keeping hydrated.LO just isn't a very good drinker, and do sometimes offer juice cause he swigs it down so quickly.

Rink08 · July 2012

We don't give either of the kids juice at home but DS1 has has orange juice at both sets of grandparents homes. If given the choice, he'll usually ask for "leche arroz" (rice milk) or water because he doesn't like orange juice with "hair"(pulp).

tiffanyp · July 2012

We don't drink it ourselves so we don't give it to A either. I don't see a reason for it to be part of anyone's diet.

Mommysaurus123 · July 2012

Landon has a cup of diluted prune juice (half juice, half water) every day or he is constipated to the point of poop so hard it makes him bleed. That's his only juice though... he only gets one cup every day, first thing in the morning with his breakfast.

--halo-- · July 2012

I would like to come out and say that I LOVE JUICE! JUICY JUICE JUICE!

But I know that it is basically sugar water, so I don't drink it as often as I would like to. Yummy. And since I try to give Jackson healthy options for food and drink he has only had it a handful of times. I also make it about 80-90% water.

I recently borrowed my moms juicer and DH and I made our own apple-carrot-spinach-cucumber-blueberry concoction and it was delicious. So if Jack starts asking for juice I'll make some REAL juice for him.

OhSewCrafty · July 2012

--halo--:
I would like to come out and say that I LOVE JUICE! JUICY JUICE JUICE!
But I know that it is basically sugar water, so I don't drink it as often as I would like to. Yummy. And since I try to give Jackson healthy options for food and drink he has only had it a handful of times. I also make it about 80-90% water.
I recently borrowed my moms juicer and DH and I made our own apple-carrot-spinach-cucumber-blueberry concoction and it was delicious. So if Jack starts asking for juice I'll make some REAL juice for him.

Same here!! lol I love me some good old Juicy Juice, actually. Yum!

We give C juice every once in a while - especially if its hot or he's sick and we need to keep him hydrated. He will guzzle it. Its watered down and always 100% juice so I don't feel bad about it. He doesn't, however, and will never get soda.

JLSmith124 · July 2012

We do really watered down juice. I fill the sippy 3/4 with water and add a splash of apple or grape juice. Sometimes we do the fruitables and I'll add a bit more of that to the water.

They get about 3-4 milk sippies and 1-2 juice sippies a day depending on how active they are during the day.

bosha711 · July 2012

Oh well since we are talking about ourselves now -lol - I love juice, too! And Arizona green tea w/ honey - yum! We have either one on our fridge on most days.

But, we don't give it to DS! If he points to our glass, I just say, "no, that's mommy's drink. Here's Anthony's drink" - and give him his plain water. It works for now.

jarebearsmom · July 2012

J only gets 4 oz of juice at snack at dc and he's not even there everyday for snack so I don't worry about it. They have to give 100% juice and only give half a sippy so not like he gets a ton and he never asks for it at home

I do not give him soda and sweet tea and I won't for many more years. I don't drink the crap and I don't see a reason for him to

Sonadora · July 2012

We don't. Milk and water only. I see no need for it, just extra empty calories.

lulu8109 · July 2012

I never give DS juice myself, but he gets watered down juice at daycare. I insisted no juice for awhile, but daycare kept saying he wasn't drinking his water and that all the other kids were getting juice and DS wanted it. So I've relented and told them to water it down so it's like 1/4 juice and 3/4 water. And he only gets it once a day, so I'm not too worried about it.

Confession: DS also really likes flavored sparkling water. He sees DH and I drink it and sometimes asks for it. We give him a sip or two. But it actually doesn't have any sugar in it, so I guess it's not even as 'bad' as juice.

stephy1221 · July 2012

jillybean800:
A gets about 4 ounces of juice daily at snacktime. It helps his really hard poops.

That is why we started too

Linds619 · July 2012

My pedi told us not to offer juice because of the sugar. *shrugs* We don't offer juice, but I wouldn't be opposed to a super watered down version.

IncogNeato · July 2012

I don't. Juice is just sugar water. Fresh fruit is great because it has fiber in it, but juice doesn't so you're just left with the sugar.

DD has had juice once because a friend's kid was having some and offered it to her. She pooped like a madwoman that day! Eeek!

Juice isn't neccesary. My DD loves water and milk so I really see no need. If I had a hard time getting enough fluids in her then I might consider adding a splash of juice, but otherwise see no need.

ETA- my DD also eats fruit like it's going out of style. She is really small, also, and I'd rather her get fat and healthy calories from milk than fill up on juice.

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