Going from bottles to milk in a cup?
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Topic: Going from bottles to milk in a cup?
Posted By: Mikaela
Subject: Going from bottles to milk in a cup?
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 10:29am
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Alex still has 3 x 180ml bottles of cows milk at 14 months, and I'm trying to get him to drink at least his lunchtime one from his straw cup.
He drinks water from this straw cup without a problem but I just can't seem to get him to drink milk from it. He either refuses it full stop and howls until I get the bottle or he just takes sips and then dribbles them back out again. Any ideas on how to get him to drink milk from his cup? The only thing I've tried so far was adding some melted honey to the milk to make it sweeter to see if that'd get him to drink it - no go. ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 10:38am
| Daniel still has milk in bottles. He does the same thing as Alex and I can't be bothered with a war so I've just left him with bottles and am not going to push it until he masters a proper cup. I figure it's easier that way rather than fighting with him over it |
Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 11:13am
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Rhylz still has 2 bottles - granted they are only 125mls each but its his wind down for the day and beginning of the day.
Unless you really want him to give up bottles then i would keep offering it in the cup and not give it in a bottle at all. ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 12:31pm
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Sam still has bottles, because I can't be bothered with a war either! He's never liked drinking from a cup despite when lots of other people tell me he should be drinking from a cup now. He loves his bottle and has 2x 200mls a day, sometimes more!
I think I'll do what Stacey said and wait for him to master a proper cup. 
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 2:03pm
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This is what I found worked. Spencer was having bottles morning and evening and would do the same, either not drink from the sippy cup and/or howl the house down until I got the bottle for him. I just gave up for a while but then his bottles were getting to the point of needing new nipples so it was either try again and get him off the bottle or buy new nipples which I was loathed to do when I had million perfectly good sippy cups that he wouldn't use.
So I reintroduced milk at lunch in the sippy cup for him to play with as wasn't fussed what he drank, once he realised yummy milk was in it he drank from it. After a few days of doing that I then gave him the sippy for his evening milk and he messed about but did drink some and I thought tough and put him to bed with what he had drank (was prepared for a night waking, but that didn't happen), next morning I offered him the milk in the cup and he drank the lot and that was it, he hasn't had anymore bottles. I then got rid of the lunch one again, so he just has 200ml in his cup morning and evening and water the rest of the time. Good luck ------------- 
 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 7:36pm
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I think you might need to do all or nothing with the bottles.
What I would try first (similar to the honey idea though) is offering him a milky milo in a cup/straw cup. That's how I got my girls weaned onto a cup LOL. Does he really want milk at lunchtime? By that age, my girls were having just one cup of milk each day, at breakfast or bedtime. Would he be content to having just water in the straw cup at lunchtime? -------------  |
Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 10:29pm
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I had the battle and gave up too!
Will have to try cuppatea's tactics I think .....  ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 10 October 2008 at 12:10am
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Yeah I kind of did what Marissa did- but I was replacing boobie and she was a bit younger (12-13 months). I just gave her a sippy cup (tomme tippy first cup one that has no valve so it flows easily) at lunch when I wasn't too bothered how much she drank and let her experiment with it in the highchair. Then when it came to replacing the actual breastfeeds I held her like I would have when I fed her and just gave her the same cup. She now has one morning and night from her sippy cup and a yoghurt drink at lunchtime. ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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