confession - bottles

redhotchili83

Kai has no interest in any form of a sippy cup (the best we get is 3-4 sips from a MAM sippy) so for right now, he's still getting botles.  I know the experts all say that bottles will warp their mouths and ruin them forever and lower their GPA and prevent them from getting into Harvard, but Im not gonna force it yet.

Anyone elses kid reject the sippy?

first-time-mama

Yup!!!! Im here with ya!! I am not going to force it..Noah is 14 months today!  He isnt ready so I dont really care!  I know terrible mother not caring

fairychick77

Have you tried a straw cup at all? DS would never drink from a sippy but took instantly to a straw.

jrlandrigan

We still give bottles all day. I have been trying more to get him to take a sippy and he is getting a little better about taking it, but it's still a struggle. I know he won't drink from a bottle forever so I'm not worried about it. I wonder if when I stop nursing he will willingly stop drinking from bottles.. DH watches him while I work and hasn't been trying milk in a sippy although I asked him to. He does offer water in a sippy often though to try and get DS to drink Something out of it.

blueyez09

if I remember correctly your son (as well as mine) works for MAM...

LO did awesome taking the Nuk Learner Cup (it has a soft silicone spout) I think it feels the same as the MAM nipples/Binki's. Also, which MAM sippy are you using, they have the hard spout cup and a soft cup spout?

I would just keep trying (but not forcing by any means), he'll do when he's ready. it's not like he's going to walk into kindergaten on the first day with a bottle in his hand.

JungleJulia

Lol! I don't think it's a big deal and all these "expert" opinions are just that.

My mom was kind enough to let me keep my bottle until I was a whopping 5 years old and I decided didn't want it any more. Somehow, I managed to keep all my teeth, move out of my house, graduate from college, get married, and now raise a child.  Go figure. 

Which is why taking my kid's bottle away is KILLING MEEEE!!! 

mari_gold

I'm still fighting to get Zack drinking whole milk on a regular basis. I'm not even going to worry about ditching the bottle until that's under control.

kcisthebombdotcom

It took a ton of work, but finally after buying every brand of sippy cup imaginable we found a sippy cup than DS would drink water out of. Now he chugs a good 6-10oz of water during each meal. He loves water.

With that being said, he still refuses to take more than a few sips of milk from a sippy, so we still do 1-2 bottles of whole milk a day depending on how much calcium he got from other sources.

I'm not that concerned. Unless your kid is falling asleep in their crib with a bottle in their mouth multiple times a day, I don't think the bottle is going to do any irreparable harm.

anukindaluv

We just recently got Tooter Man to take whole milk.. but he'll only drink it if its slightly warm and in a bottle.  The only thing he wants to do w/ a sippy cup is throw it around.  I would like to try a couple brands that were recommended to us by our sitter, but I'm not pushing the idea on him.

redhotchili83

blueyez09:

if I remember correctly your son (as well as mine) works for MAM...

LO did awesome taking the Nuk Learner Cup (it has a soft silicone spout) I think it feels the same as the MAM nipples/Binki's. Also, which MAM sippy are you using, they have the hard spout cup and a soft cup spout?

I would just keep trying (but not forcing by any means), he'll do when he's ready. it's not like he's going to walk into kindergaten on the first day with a bottle in his hand.

Yes, that is him!  He will drink a little bit out of the soft-spout MAM sippy (esp if I take the flow-reducer thing out of it, which is a huge mess, but works).  The only problem is when he's done he smacks it down the the tray, realizes it made a fun noise, and then drink time is over.

jenn_darrin1515

we didn't even try to take the girls bottles til 14 months...we tried one day and it worked fine (I am sure it helps that their milk sippies very closely resemble a bottle..) I was just done with all those dr. brown's parts myself...

Abinormal

Tegan will drink endless amounts of extremely watered down juice from a sippy, but will only drink 1-2 ounces of milk before throwing the sippy on the floor. Since she's also not eating a ton these days, I've decided that I'm going to wait on the whole bottle thing. Right now, she gets 2-3 bottles of whole milk a day. An 8 oz first thing after she wakes up, a 6 oz mid day and a 6 oz about 15-30 minutes before bed.

achase123

P will gladly take a sippy but he prefers the bottle.  I try to only give him the bottle in the morning and at bedtime but it's a struggle...and I'm still not totally sure why the bottle is so evil. 

But I am concerned now about the possibilty that it will lower his GPA.