Hello mommies, my son is almost 14 months old and for the last two months we've been trying to get him to drink milk from a sippie cup. He's been drinking water from a sippie cup since he was 6 months. At 12 months we introduced milk into his bottle, we'd do half whole milk half formula, then each week i'd decrease the amount of formula. At 13 months we took away the bottle and started giving him the milk in a sippie cup and he would take a sip throw it and cry for his baba. So it's been an ongoing struggle. I have warmed up the milk, diluted it with water, put it in a different colored sippie cup, but nothing seems to work. I am looking for any suggestions to help get him to take the sippie cup.
Hi Jennifer,
I only scanned a few of the responses, so forgive me if I repeat what someone else has already said. Try a different style sippy cup so he has one style for water and another style for milk.
Good Luck!
It's hard to take away a bottle cold turkey. You have to wean him off that too. Give him a bottle when he wakes up and goes to sleep but let him use a sippy or a cup with a straw during the day. Gradually change out the morning bottle to a sippy or cup with straw. Then gradually change the night time bottle. It might take a few more months but eventually your son will stop the bottle. There is nothing wrong with a 14 month old drinking from a bottle a couple of times a day. He'll eventually stop but taking it away before he's ready isn't the best thing to do.
Hope this helps.
I use the Born Free sippy cups and when I first made the transition with milk, I put the sippy nipple on the bottle with no handle so it looked and felt like a bottle, just with a sippy nipple instead of bottle nipple(all of the parts are interchangeable). Now, at almost 2, he likes the handle and doesn't care which bottle or cup I put the nipple on and he uses many other types of sippys too (playtex probably being my favorite). Good luck!
have u tried the soft tip nuby brand u can get them at walmart or kmart. they are soft like a bottle but shaped like a cuppie. I had the same problem with my oldest intill i found these cup. and i just switch my youngest from the soft tips to the hard tip cuppie last month. but if your little guy has teeth he might chew a hole in them, that is why i switched. they aare great starter cuppies. good luck http://www.nuby.com/en/nuby/cups-spouts/9900 there is the website about them if you want to check them out.
We started the transition with the Nuby sippy cups. It seemed to work well. After a few weeks of those we introduced other kinds and they can now use any kind.
If he is thristy he will drink but you can use just a regular cup and feed it to him. Do not let him get used to sweet tastes. He is way too young and will be drinking sodas and horrible stuff when older. Actually bottles and sippy cups are really hard on the growing oral bones such as the palate in the top of the mouth and the teeth can become crooked from too small of an arch from the sucking instead of suckling. It will make for tongue thrust and braces and many problems later if you continue. Better off without and learning to drink from a cup even if you have to hold it for him. check to see if he is sleeping with the mouth open yet. If so gently close the mouth with your fingers. Nose breathers will be healthier and no allergies asthma and stuff like that. All this caused by the way they are fed. amazing how the bone deforms with the placement of the tongue. Tongue should be in the top of the mouth at rest position, then the mouth will close and able to nose breathe.
Try adding a little bit of unsweetened cocoa powder and a little Agave sweetener. This combo is a better alternative to Chocolate syrup, which is loaded with sugar, and it will probably become a "fun" drink for him. It's the only way I can get my son (3 yrs old) to drink his milk. :-)
You can get Agave sweetener at Trader Joe's and Whole foods. You don't need to use much, and it does not cause blood sugar spikes like regular sugar.
Have YOU ever tried to get something out of some of those leak-proof sippy cups? Some of them are worse than a baby's bottle and they still need to use a lot of force to get it out...not great for their teeth at all.
Try a straw cup OR do what I did. Buy the "disposable" cups and lids (take and toss) and enlarge the holes with a hot paper clip or needle. It is much easier for them to get the fluid and a whole lot easier to clean without all those crazy valves. My daughter started with cups and straws well before a year so we've been using ours for a couple of years now. I have one cup that I got as a gift with big enough holes, but I can't figure out where to find more.
Yeah, if he throws it there might be a bigger mess, but he is a lot less likely to be so frustrated with it. Try one thing consistently rather than changing it trying to get him to try it. It is frustrating for you and is sending the wrong message to him (he will be noticing more than you think very soon).
My son at this age wouldn't drink milk from a sippy either. I just kept with the bottle and tried every once in a while with the sippy. I used the nuby sippy cups as they are soft and don't have the valve. He finally transitioned over completely to the nuby sippy cups by 18 months. He uses "other" sippy cups or sports sippers for all other drinks. But, his nuby ones are specifically for milk. He still seems to need the sucking.
I used both Chocolate milk and/or Eggnog and then slowly dilute them with whole milk until my son got used to it. It worked great. Good luck!
Hi Jennifer,
My daughter did not like sippy cups with Milk at first either. After trying everything, I found and bought the Playtex soft tip sippy cups and she finally took it. I hope this helps.
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A doula /lactation specialist friend of mine said little kids produce oxytocin when they suck bottles, pacifiers, mommy's nipples etc. This is a natural drive. It goes beyond one year of age. Does your son have another sucking "outlet" so to speak.?
babies r us have a nipple that goes in the bottle that is shaped like a sippy top. it also doesnt leak untill worn out. That is how I bottle broke mine. They are called nuby soft sipper spouts and are a god send. YOu cannot order them online with babies r us you have to go to a store. You might be able to order directly fromnuby I don't know.
I would give him the sippy cup and if he doesn't want to drink it at first, place it on the counter, or wherever, and eventually he will take it. Don't give into him and when he whines for the baba, ignore him. Once he sees he's not getting his way, he will stop.
