why can babies have water in formula but not actual water before 6 months?
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Think of a person as being made out of chemicals.
A baby is a *very small* pile of chemicals.
Basically, you don’t want to dilute the baby too much.
Breast-milk/formula contains relevant chemicals so that a baby stays roughly stable, but pure water will dilute them.
(More details would include stuff like electrolytes and stomach size and osmosis and so on.)
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