Can't get DD2 off bottles!

KatieCC08

I've tried every sippy cup under the sun. DD2 refuses all of them!

She's 17 months old and way overdue for sippy cups. She'll drink water out of them, but if I offer milk in a sippy cup she flips out and throws it back at me. I've tried all the sippy cups that worked with DD1, DD2 hates them for milk. I have soft spout, hard spout, you name it. 

Any suggestions? Any sippy cups out there that worked for your little ones? 

mb314

I am worried about the same thing, although DS is just 13 months.  he is very attached to his bottles.  Like your LO, he drinks water fine out of a sippy, but won't take milk. 

I just bought the Avent Natural Drinking cup yesterday.  I haven't tried it yet, but I'm hoping DS might feel like a "big boy" if drinking from a more traditional cup. 

mommymegan831

Is there a reason you're pushing it?  DS didn't like hard tops at 1st, so he was using the nubby cups.  They tended to leak and if I took the soft plastic out I could never get it in, so thankfully he likes the hard tops now too.  I also usually give him a bottle with a little milk when we get home from daycare and before bed just because it soothes him.  He's 17 months and I'm leaning towards keeping the bottles because it's the one thing that always calms him and keeps him busy, we're going on a cruise when he's 23 months.  Even though it's still a whiles away, I'm glad I'll have something to keep him busy at dinners and shows

emberlee3

DD is 16 months and we just got rid of bottles a few weeks ago.  I give her a sippy of water at bedtime.  She loves water.  I offer milk at meal times, she usually takes a sip and then spits it out.  She is on soy because of dairy intolerance.  I may try coconut milk.  She eats tons of food, so I don't think milk is really necessary.

dns05

DD is 18 months and she still gets a nighttime bottle and occasionally one before her nap.  I'm in the same situation where she refuses to drink milk out of a sippy cup of any kind.  I even tried teaching her to drink out of an adult cup.  She just won't do it.  But, she'll drink water all day long in a straw sippy cup without issues. I told her pediatrician I've tried everything and he said to not make it a battle.  He's ok with a couple bottles a day as long as we brush her teeth afterwards. He understood because one of his own children went through the same thing.  I stopped worrying about it after that.  It's not like she walks around with a bottle all day.  I'm doing what works for my child at this point in her life.  We'll eliminate the bottle when she's ready.  Hope that eases your mind a little.