Help! Will not drink milk from a sippy!

Meggie1129

I am still nursing DS 4X a day but am trying to at least wean his two daytime feedings. I do not want to go to a bottle and want him to drink from a sippy. He drinks water just fine from a sippy, but try giving him a sippy of milk and he pitches it to the floor, repeatedly. I have tried all sorts of cups with no success, straw and non. I have tried breastmilk in there, no luck. I try every meal to see if he will drink from it, so three times a day for like a week now. I don't even want to try and replace one of his nursing sessions until he will drink milk from a sippy without problems, but at this rate I feel like the kid will still be on the boob when he goes to college!

Alexandra*sMom

Add a little nesquick or choc syrup to intrigue his interest.  GL!

dedl

Does he try it first and then pitch it to the floor or does it go directly to the floor?  Although I am not bfing what we did when DS just pitched his directly to the floor is not give him milk in another container.  I would wait until he drank is milk from the straw sippy then gave him his meal.  He missed a few meals for about a week but now he is back and track and drinking from his sippy and eating all his meals. 

JerseyGirlRD

We are having the same problem.  He will take a sip out of it and realize what it is and toss the sippy across the room.  He also takes water just fine and I even tried juice one day just to see and he also took that fine.  I guess he's just used to getting milk in a bottle and that's how he thinks it should be.  We try every day to put it in different sippys.  So far no luck.  Good luck to you, please let me know if you find something that works.

beckynick04

At our one year appointment our doc said to get rid of all of ds's bottles and only give him milk in a sippy.  She said to do it cold turkey and that kids tend to go on a milk strike for about a week and then start drinking out of the sippy.  She said it's normal for them to put up about a week of protest and that it is ok that they don't drink much milk for that week. 

 That said, we still haven't gotten rid of all of the bottles b/c he loves them and I know it would be even harder if we were EBFing. 

Good luck!

bim38106

beckynick04:

At our one year appointment our doc said to get rid of all of ds's bottles and only give him milk in a sippy.  She said to do it cold turkey and that kids tend to go on a milk strike for about a week and then start drinking out of the sippy.  She said it's normal for them to put up about a week of protest and that it is ok that they don't drink much milk for that week. 

 That said, we still haven't gotten rid of all of the bottles b/c he loves them and I know it would be even harder if we were EBFing. 

Good luck!

Ditto this, word for word

Tootsie Roll

my son is 13 months & I had the same problem until last week when he started drinking more milk.  He had hated milk but would drink water from the sippy.  Now, he still won't take milk early in the day, but will at dinner time.  I offer him milk at his afternoon snack & he will only have a few sips.  I don't know if this is coincidence but he started taking the milk the day after I added a bit of cow's milk to one of his fave foods which is banana & oatmeal.  Ever since I dropped the late afternoon feeding he had been really fussy in the late afternoon but if I give him his banana & oatmeal then, he is a happier baby. By dinner time he is really thirsty & will drink milk.  If I give milk before the food, he'll drink a lot of milk. he drank nearly 8 ounces before his meal once.  Some of it dribbles down his chin because he's not great at the cup.  I nurse him 3 x a day.  When I'm ready to drop the mid day nursing session i will count on him to be hungry from having lost that nursing session & then he will have to drink cow's milk.. I know how you feel.  Weaning seems very difficult.