why can babies have water in formula but not actual water before 6 months?
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Think of baby formula like medicine. Let’s say you need two Tylenol to make your headache go away. If you crunch up these two Tylenol and mix it with a gallon of water you now have to drink the whole gallon of water to make your headache go away. But your stomach is small, you can’t drink a whole gallon of water. So you only drink a cup of water but that doesn’t give you enough Tylenol to make your headache go away.
So baby formula mixed with the right amount of water (follow the instructions) gives you the right amount of calories and nutrients to grow. But when you add too much water (or drink only water with no formula mixed in) you don’t get enough nutrients to grow.
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