Any suggestions? I have tried on a daily basis since my daughter was about 6 months old to get her to drink out of her sippy cup. For a little while it seemed to be going ok. But now she doesn't want anything to do with it. I have bought all kinds and colors. I even drink out of them trying to encourage her :0 She will take a drink but that's it. She wants her bottle. She recently gave up her pacifier with no problem. She will even drink out of a cup or a bottle if I am giving her something to drink. However, she wants her bottle 24/7. How long should I let this continue? Anyone experience anything similiar? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
By the way. She can drink out out them with no problem just would just rather have her ba ba. :)
What worked for my daughter was starting her with the Nuby brand sippy cups. They are soft like a bottle nipple. Put her favorite drink (like juice) in it and use bottles for formula/milk only. Eventually you should be able to switch. Another thing that works is seeing other children using sippy cups.
Dear D.,
I had the same problem and now my son wants to drink all of the time. I thought for sure my son would die of thirst!! I had to put my son in daycare at about 12 months and he went straight into the toddler room. No bottles!! I would make sure he would get a good bottle in the morning and evening and pray he would drink from the cup. What eventually worked was putting only watered down formula in the bottle and yummy fresh whole milk in the sippy cup. I did not take away the bottle cold turkey, but he decided he would rather have yummy milk instead of yucky formula. The cups I use are called "Nuby" and they have a soft clear plastic flexible spout similar to a bottle nipple. Good luck. K.
Tough love. Go one day and only offer her a sippy cup. She'll get thirsty enough and drink it. I'd even set out several different kinds so she has something to choose from. She knows that if she refuses you will give into her and give her a bottle. If you don't she'll learn to adapt.
Take care...soon you'll be rid of the ba ba. :)
N.
i have an 11 month old girl and she has a hard time drinking from a sippy cup.she tries but she dribbles a lot and she can't seem to figure out how to tip it up to get all the juice out.what i found worked really well was a sippy cup with a straw.i started both my kids on them when they were about 5 or 6 months and because they were still on a bottle full time they were able to suck easily enough.some people don't give their kid a straw until a while after being weaned from the bottle and they seem to have a hard time remembering how to suck.nuby makes a straw sippy cup that is oval shaped and has a kind of built in vent.it keeps the suction in the straw so they don't have to suck the juice all the way up every time.it also helps to be spill resistant(i have yet to find cup that is truly "spill proof"!!both of my kids manage to find a way to spill a little bit out of every kind!)the fact that it is oval shaped makes it easier for them than a round straw.hope this helps.~S.~
my 21 month old is the same way. He does not use a pacifier...the bottle is his pacifier. He is still teething and I think that is why he wont give it up. He had no issue with potty training or a big boy bed...but the bottle is his thing. Now just yesterday, he wanted a sippy cup, he asked for it!!! But he only drank a little...but it was a start:)
My point I guess...It will come...He is starting to not have it in his mouth 24/7 and I hope the cup will come soon!!
good luck!
E.
I recommend the sippy cups with the slicone top it's like a nipple,but it's easy to drink out of.My son won't drink out of a hard top sippycup hope this helps!
U could try 2 give he a bottle WITHOUT a nipple on it. A trick my mom and grandma tought me. Hope it worke with her too. Good luck.
I am going through the same thing with my 17 mth old daughter. My daughter will drink out of a regular cup, a water bottle and she will drink juice and water out of her sippy cup but she refuses to drink milk from it. She really doesn't put up a fuss but she just doesn't drink any so I end up giving her a bottle. I know with my daughter I am the one creating the problem if I strictly gave her a sippy cup then she would be fine. She was actually doing great with sippy cups until she got the "hand, foot and mouth disease" from daycare and it hurt her mouth to drink so we ended up pull out the bottles from storage and now that is all she wants. At daycare she does not get a bottle at all and drinks fine. I would try limited her bottle usage by taking away the bottle for lunch time and then take away her morning bottle and so forth. If you do it gradually then she will adjust better and she will be getting her milk too even if she refuses to take the sippy cup for lunch. I would start transitioning her slowly. Good luck!
It's funny how kids can start to have their preferances so young. Well, from my personal experience, my son wouldn't hold his own bottle and so when it came time for sippy cups he wouldn't hold those either. In turn I went backwards. I started him in regular open cups. Then I showed him how to drink through a straw and that seemed to make it easier for him so he liked that. When we got the straw down I started putting them in water bottles which was something he loved because he could take the straw out and close the bottle then take it with him because with cups he couldn't. Then one day I bought sippy cups with straws that you could close with the straw in them and he thought it was the greatest. He no longer had to take the straw out and close it. Now it did bring him out of drinking out of sippy cups early because he would see drinks of mine and know how to drink out of them so through practice we were only in the sippy cups stage six months or less. I think what my son started liking about going from cups to sippy cups was the fact that it liberated him more. There were rules with each type of cup and sippy cups allowed him to bring it in the car, carry it around the house, go anywhere really, and the cups he could only take drinks in the kitchen and he had to leave the cup with me because of how little he was and spilling. I hope you find a solution but straws may turn to be good because they seem to like to suck and the straw will allow more to flow with less effort.
My 13 month-old prefers a straw cup.
My son is 14 months old and I am having the same problem. I have the sippy cups with the nipple like tops and other ones. He seems to like them only for a few minutes then wants a bottle. I'm going to try some of the other suggestions. It is hard to see your child cry for the bottle, I got to stop giving in to him. lol Hope the suggestions from other mothers help you.
