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Transitioning from bottles to sippy cups

ladybugg82ladybugg82
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How in the world does this work?!?!

Should I take them away cold turkey? Or gradually start dropping them?

I gave Austin a sippy cup of milk this am instead of his usual bottle and it is still sitting there full. He refuses to drink it. I am hoping that he will get hungry enough to drink it. 

I dont want to stave him, but I dont want to cave and give him a bottle either.

Nicole and Michael~Las Vegas~May 31, 2008
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Re: Transitioning from bottles to sippy cups

  • Butterflie6381Butterflie6381

    My pedi told me that sometimes the sippy cups restrict the flow where the child has to 'work for it' so they don't bother when it comes to milk.  She suggested we try taking out the stopper or switching the cup.

    We let Lil Miss drink out of a straw from a 'big girl cup' and then the lightbulb went off, and she drank milk from the cup with out problems after that. She had been drinking water out of the sippy starting at 6m.

    HTH!

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    We started with water at 6 months in the sippy. Then when we started her on whole milk we went right to the sippy again and never put it in the bottle. Sorry I wish I had some advice but Alexa LOVES her whole milk in a sippy... now if I could only get her to eat for me....
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  • Mrs.PsyDMrs.PsyD
    I have no advice, but I wanted to say I feel your confusion. We tried this with the little girl I nannied and I tried everything to get het to use the sippy. She just wasn't interested in it for a long time. and.... her sippys leaked out the side so it was just a frustrating mess.
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  • ladybugg82ladybugg82

    Austin drinks fine out of a sippy cup. He has been getting water in one since 6 months. He does great with sippy cups that have straws.

    He just wont drink his milk out of one. 

    Nicole and Michael~Las Vegas~May 31, 2008
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  • eamaineseamaines
    imageladybugg82:

    Austin drinks fine out of a sippy cup. He has been getting water in one since 6 months. He does great with sippy cups that have straws.

    He just wont drink his milk out of one. 

    STUBBORN LITTLE MAN!

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  • ladybugg82ladybugg82
    imageeamaines:
    imageladybugg82:

    Austin drinks fine out of a sippy cup. He has been getting water in one since 6 months. He does great with sippy cups that have straws.

    He just wont drink his milk out of one. 

    STUBBORN LITTLE MAN!

    He is very stubborn and hard-headed like his Mama Wink

    Nicole and Michael~Las Vegas~May 31, 2008
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  • hurricaneb-2-bhurricaneb-2-b
    We still let McKenna have one bottle when she gets up and the maybe one at night before bed (for comfort) but during the day we give her formula in a cup and thats it. At first she resued it but we'd keep offering it to her maybe every 5-10 mins...she caught on.
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  • chosen175chosen175

    We tried phasing them out, but that was actually hard on Kasey.  So I just decided to go cold turkey.  She woke up one morning asking for her bottle of milk and I showed her that "All the bottles went bye bye."  (The bottle drying rack was empty and in place of the bottles were nothing but sippy cups.)  She didn't like it.  That first day, she kept tossing her sippy to the floor and wouldn't hardly touch it, even though she had been drinking juice & water out of them for a while and KNEW how to use them.  The first day was hard, but not nearly as hard as I expected it to be. I think it was harder on ME to pack up all those bottles and know I may never see them again.  Crying  I made sure she had extra liquidy foods throughout the day (mandarin oranges, a sippy of juice, a sippy of water, soup for lunch, etc) so she didn't get dehydrated.  Then I got REALLY mean and gave her a bowl of dry Cheerios for a snack after dinner.  She ate enough to where she got thirsty, and the only option was that sippy of milk..... she drank about half of it. 

    The next morning, she woke up and asked for a bottle of milk again.  And again, I told her the bottles went bye bye.  She drank half the milk in her sippy.  It took 2-3 days to get her back up to where she had previously been, in terms of milk intake.  But like I said, it was a whole lot easier than I had braced myself for. 

    Good luck with Austin and I hope he "gets it" really soon!

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