If you went cold turkey with bottles...

jenn_darrin1515 · July 2010

was it met with protests?

I tried to get the girls to just take a sippy cut with milk...but there was so much whining and crying and throwing of said sippy cup that I gave up this weekend...should I have stuck it out?

I did and was planning to keep giving them their first morning bottle of milk for a while longer since they wake up famished and slug it down...I thought this would help, but maybe it is hurting the whole process...ugh...we are going to the beach for a long weekend in 2 weeks and I don't want to have to wash bottles...maybe they just aren't ready? Or is a little protesting normal and i should just stick it out?

Thoughts/comments/suggestions? TIA...the switch to whole milk was so seemless I thought the transition to the cup would be too...silly mommy...

katekirschner · July 2010

I don't have any advice for ya, but am thinking of going cold turkey. Our transition wasn't seemless and DD didn't take to whole milk till almost 13.5 months (we started the week or week and a half before her bday). She finally caved and would take it in a bottle only prior to naps/bed. Never at a meal. Now she's coming around, sometimes, by drinking it out of our Foogo Thermos straw sippy cup which i like b/c it keeps it cold longer so we can have it out for a little while longer. She is def. a bottle before bed kinda gal, so that one might be the biggest problem, but maybe cold turkey is best, just so it doesn't drag out forever and ever -- esp b/c you have TWO of them to wean off!

LynnJones · July 2010

We pretty much went cold turkey. I started out replacing all daytime bottles with sippy's. Then after a week I dropped the morning bottle, then after 3-5 days I dropped the bedtime one. She really didn't seem to care, or even notice, lol.

If they are showing that much resistence I'd start off slow. Maybe replacing only an afternoon bottle with a sippy, then move on after a week or so. I definitely wouldn't rush it.

jbl126 · July 2010

The girls went cold turkey and it went seamless, much to my surprise.

However, since the end of June, I stopped giving them the bottle when they first woke up and let daycare give it to them. They didnt even notice it was missing. Out of sight, out of mind. So when we started milk, we just put milk in the sippys and it was fine. At first Ava liked hers a little warmer but now they will both drink it right out of the fridge. I figured we would try and see what happens. If they complained and whined, I would give a bottle. I kept the night time bottle for about 2 extra nights. Then just decided to not give it and see what happened. Again, out of sight, out of mind.

Maybe you need to play around with sippys. They use the one with the straw at daycare but regular ones at home. No issues with either of them.

vaness77 · July 2010

In my experience and from stories I have heard from my friends, most toddlers put up a fight when switching to milk and sippy cups cold turkey. You just have to stick with it. After two days, everything should be fine! I know it is very difficult as a mom to see this frustration.

Heffalump · July 2010

I noticed with DD that when I was still giving her one bottle in the a.m., she would hardly drink any milk from a cup. However, when I dropped the last bottle, she gradually started drinking more and more from a cup. Now I have to restrict her milk intake, because if I didn't she'd go through half a gallon a day.

BelleBaby · July 2010

We went cold turkey and the boys really didn't have a problem with it. We started off giving them to them like bottles. We held them the same way and everything and it was okay. We had tried sippies on and off and DC did too, so it wasn't like one day there was a bottle and the next just a sippy. So I guess it wasn't completely "cold turkey" but when we took bottles away, we stopped giving them all together.

Are you using the soft top kind? I think that helped the boys so that the transition wasn't so hard. They kind of thought it was a bottle, just with handles!

Payne2B2008 · July 2010

We never put milk in the bottle so that might have helped as he known Formula came in bottles & Milk/Water/juice came in sippy cup.

We do use the nuk sippy nipple for naps & night time milk, you could try that.

katypresson · July 2010

When DS turned 1 he was still drinking (4) 8oz bottles per day which was waaaay too much milk. We attempted to go cold turkey and it didn't work. He refused to drink milk from a sippy (even though he drinks water out of it just fine). We tried for 3 days and he was only drinking 5 ounces or less/day plus not napping well. So I gave in and we now give him (2) 9oz bottles/day - one before nap and one before bed. He was getting water in sippy with each meal/snacks.

Lately I've been putting milk in the sippy with meals to see if he'll drink it. So far no go. He will drink maybe 1-2 ounces and that's it. I'm not sure how we'll get rid of the bottle besides trying cold turkey again. I'm giving him until 15 months before trying again. Hopefully he'll be "ready" at that point. It's frustrating!!!

lkaylee721 · July 2010

We went cold turkey. The first day he got about 3 ounces of milk and the next day about 16 and then day three was completely normal. We didn't have a 'bedtime' bottle routine though. He got 8 ounces with breakfast, lunch, and dinner and he went to bed about 30 min-1hr after dinner.

I would stick it out for 4 days and if there was no improvement then I might change up my technique

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