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Seriously need help losing the bottle
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We are now supposed to get ds on to soy milk. Great. The first couple days were an adjustment but now he drinks it fine. The problem is that he will not drink it from a sippy. He will do water from a sippy, but no milk. He only wants the bottle. Every day I have broken down and just given him the bottle in the end because his diapers just haven't been that wet and he needs the hydration. How on earth am I going to get this kid to drink his milk from a cup?!? I really don't have an issue with him having the bottle, it's just some day, he is going to need to learn to drink from a cup. WWYD?
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Re: Seriously need help losing the bottle
Be tough! If he can take water from a sippy, then he can take milk. He'll be fine if he doesn't drink much milk for a day or two. Give him lots of fruit for hydration instead
DS didn't want to give up the bottle. I gave it to him whenever he wanted, but only put water in the bottle. Milk only went in the cup. He got over the bottle pretty quick.
Brilliant. Tell him the plan - water/bottle, milk/cup and stick with the plan. Nice, ali- 1411.
I dunno- I disagree. I don't sweat the whole 'lose the bottle by 1' theory and neither did my pedi. At one Gisele had 2 bottles a day. I kept trying with the milk in the cup and it was rough- The thing with Gisele is she could care less about the bottle or what was in it- if i didn't offer her a bottle she just didn't care and wouldn't ask for it. She would drink milk from a regular big girl cup (sipping from it like big people) but wouldn't do it in a straw cup or sippy.
I just didn't push it- by 15 months she just automatically started drinking it from a straw cup one morning- like it was no biggie. Night before- forget about it. next morning- no biggie. -- So my thought, if he isn't ready at 12 months- is it REALLY worth having a battle over it?- of course if the kid is three- now that is ridiculous. But at one- he is still a baby. As long as you are actively trying I say, don't sweat it.
We're having the same problem too. Luckily we've been using Born Free bottles all along, and they make sippy cup like tops for them. So it hasn't been too much of a switch for her.