Do we need to put off drinking our water before meals when..

we are only having soup?
I can see if we were eating solid food but made me wonder if I have to do the half hr before and half hr after if I'm just having soup. It's hard enough to get my water in at this stage with having to stop for an hour, but I thought I'd pose the ? and see.

I have found with my tummy that I can stop 15 minutes before and everything will be gone when I start eating, but I have to wait 45 minutes after. Pay attention to how your stomach feels.

I'd say especially the after, do wait. There's a valve at the bottom of your stomach, your pyloric valve. When you eat (even soup unless it's plain broth) your stomach closes the pyloric valve until it processes the food. You want to wait to drink again until your pyloric valve opens up at least somewhat. That may be sooner with soup than it is with dense protein, but until you learn to feel when the food has moved out of your stomach, wait the entire half hour.

I'm the same.  I can drink up to 5 minutes before a meal, but I usually wait for 45 min. to an hour after, because I'm still too full.

If you're on liquids only, it probably doesn't matter.

 Well, soup is mostly liquid, so I would sort of count it towards the fluid you need to drink.  Nor have I heard that you have to stop an hour before meals -- 15 minutes pre meal, at least 30 minutes to an hour after a meal.
The idea about stopping fluid intake before/after meals is tha****er fills you up, and considering that there is not much room for food after surgery and you do need the nutrition, you shouldn't fill up on liquids.  But liquids alone do leave the stomach very quickly, so if you stop drinking 10-15 minutes before a meal your stomach should be empty.  Drinking during or after a meal not only fills you with somethings that isn't offering any nutrition, but also washes/pushes food out of your stomach before the stomach can do its work in helping to digest the food properly.  Personally, I have had something to drink with my meal and it just didn't feel good -- nauseating, actually.  

My surgeon says when we start puree do we follow this rule

The whole reason to not drink during or after meals is that you don't want to flush the food through the pyloric valve.

Soup is probably going to go through pretty quick anyways......but my questions is.....if you start making exceptions...then its really easy to make a bad habit of it.  Much easier to just stick to the rule for everything so it becomes second nature.  Just my two cents.

depending on how lumpy the soup is if its a smooth soup then no, its still counted as a full fluid.

The reason for us having to wait is not so much flushing the food through its because we dont have room.
I remember being about 3-4 weeks out of surgery and having a hot cocoa before my meal.. that became my meal because i was too full after it to have anything else.. my nutritionist laughed and said yeah that next time to miss the hot cocoa as it would do that, and i needed protein..

Ok thanks.. kind of what I figured.