My 14 month old will only drink water from the sippy or regular cup. He wont touch milk in anything except the bottle, as it is being held for him. We quit the bottle cold turkey on Saturday, thinking he would eventually get hungry and thirsty enough to drink milk from another source, but as of Wednesday evening, he has not. He is drinking water and we are supplementing with additional yogurt, but I'm starting to get a bit nervous. Any recommendations? It seems as if we have tried everything: we have over 10+ types of sippy cups from the least to most expensive and everything in between, we've tried a normal cup, normal glass, holding the sippy for him, drinking from the sippy ourselves and cheering, feeding the sippy to his favorite bear and cheering, etc. Any thoughts or recommendations would be MUCH appreciated!
Have you tried using a straw with a lidded cup? My son will drink a little from a straw as well as a regular cup (very messy), but refuses sippy cups for the most part.
My daughter went through the same thing. She would only drink milk from a bottle but she would drink water and juice from a sippy cup. What we did was we got flavored milk (strawberry, vanilla or chocolate) in the little boxes that come with straws. She was hesitant at first but then she started drinking them. After a couple of days we got her just the regular milk in the boxes and she began drinking it. Then we took her in the kitchen with us one day and took out one of the boxed milks and dumped it into her sippy cup with her watching. She eventually began drinking milk out of the sippy cup. It took awhile but the flavored milks help peak her interest and when she saw us dump it in the sippy cup her motors started turning in her head and she began to be okay with it. I know that it is hard and we really didn't want to go with flavored milk but she was getting her calcium that she needed and it was milk. Good luck.
My son is 13 months old and I'm having the same issue :( So I'll be waiting to hear the responses too. I'm becoming a bit discouraged with this. I'm so glad you asked. Good Luck to you!
I will never understand why it is so important to get rid of a bottle at such
an early age. They are only babies once. What is the rush. Some
babies do not like bottles and that is OK but for those that find comfort
in them, why torture them. It just does not make sense to me.
you could try introducing a straw cup so that its something new with no association? The straw cups my son has are from playtex and they have trucks on them plus you can't see through them, so he wouldn't know it was milk unless you told him...maybe the novelty would help.
If he doesn't drink out of a straw yet here's what we did....We bought a jr. frosty from wendy's and put a straw in it (that I had cut in half) then put some of the shake on the tip of the straw so he knows whats in it and he'll just start sucking to get more.
Good luck!
This may sound crazy, but are you SURE he knows there is milk in the sippy? My daughter is one, and she was throwing the sippys away when handed to her, until I picked her up, made sure some milk was on the spout, held her, and put it in her mouth, and she slurped it right down. Just wasn't sure if he had realized there was milk in there. Good luck-sounds super hard!
soft sippy spouts from nuby they fit in the bottle and are shaped like a tippy cup top. you can get them at babies r us but not from their website. and wal mart doesn't have them. try the nuby website. I used it when I mixed cereal in my sons bottle. I bottle broke him in one day. my oldest broke him self he started throwing down his bottle and I went straight to tippy cold turkey. neither of them missed it.
Don't stress about this. He will grow up perfectly healthy even if he never drinks milk, especially since you are supplementing with yogurt. There are 2 possibilities: he is being stubborn (especially since you are making such a big deal of this - he is getting a lot of attention for NOT drinking), or he doesn't like the taste of milk. Both of my son's had no interest in milk initially. I didn't force it. Now my oldest (3 years old) loves milk & my youngest (18 mo) likes it (though he does prefer juice). He will get tired of drinking water eventually. I would stop offering milk for about 2 weeks, then one day just put it in his favorite sippy (and don't react at all to his drinking - if he doesn't like it, that's ok). Or pretty soon he will want to start drinking from your cup, fill it with milk every breakfast & if he wants a taste (or more) let him have it. Also, my kids doctor said that she was more concerned with kids getting too much milk at this age than not enough. A lot of kids will drink too many calories & not be hungry for food & then won't get all the nutrients they need, so its ok that he's not drinking milk right now.
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Don't stress about this. He will grow up perfectly healthy even if he never drinks milk, especially since you are supplementing with yogurt. There are 2 possibilities: he is being stubborn (especially since you are making such a big deal of this - he is getting a lot of attention for NOT drinking), or he doesn't like the taste of milk. Both of my son's had no interest in milk initially. I didn't force it. Now my oldest (3 years old) loves milk & my youngest (18 mo) likes it (though he does prefer juice). He will get tired of drinking water eventually. I would stop offering milk for about 2 weeks, then one day just put it in his favorite sippy (and don't react at all to his drinking - if he doesn't like it, that's ok). Or pretty soon he will want to start drinking from your cup, fill it with milk every breakfast & if he wants a taste (or more) let him have it. Also, my kids doctor said that she was more concerned with kids getting too much milk at this age than not enough. A lot of kids will drink too many calories & not be hungry for food & then won't get all the nutrients they need, so its ok that he's not drinking milk right now.
I actually put a couple ice cubes in the cup it started with shaking and led to drinking the milk.
The Nuby worked for us. I don't know if your kid is any kind of daycare, but at my son's daycare, once they go to the todder room (about a year) the kids all get the same kind of cup-- and it is AMAZING what kids will do when a.) that's the only choice and b.) its what everyone else is doing. They use the disposable (except they wash and reuse) ones and now they are my son's favorite cups, but the Nubys worked best when he was your son's age.
try the Nuby sippy cups, the top of the sippy cup is similar to the bottle nipple for an easy transition
It's only been a few days since he gave up the bottle. In time he will drink the milk. I wouldn't bother with new cups since he can drink water from whatever brand you have. Just keep offering it, and eventually he will drink it. He's getting his calcium from the yogurt, so just be sure to offer foods with calcium.
