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If you switched LO to milk in a sippy cold turkey or with "tough love"

shihtzumommashihtzumomma member
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DD will be 11 months on Wednesday. I said several months ago that I wanted her on sippys by 10 months. That didn't happen, so now I'm ready to go cold turkey.

My DD will drink water from a straw sippy. She loves her straw cups and sips water from them throughout the day. She will NOT drink formula from them AT ALL.

For formula I have tried Munchkin hard and soft spouts, Tilty, Nuk, and Born Free. She takes the born free cups, but they leak horribly and I hate them. I don't want her on those for that reason alone.

So my questions for you are:

1. When you decided to switch LO cold turkey, did you just pick a random cup and decide that was what it would be? How did you decide on the cup?

2. How many days did it take your LO to make the switch? Did they refuse the cup for a few days? Did you just stand your ground and not give in? How long did it take them to give in a drink the formula from the cup?

 

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Re: If you switched LO to milk in a sippy cold turkey or with "tough love"

  • groovygrlgroovygrl member
    Tried a couple different ones & when they were thrown/banged on the tray after a couple days I just gave up & offered one of them at each meal. We still did bottles in the AM & bedtime at first but daytime went to sippy (they were goign back to daycare & didn't have a choice). They refused for about a week, then started to take a few sips but didn't drink a whole cup (4 oz) for probably 6 weeks. Once they were not throwing them & would take at least a little bit, we changed the morning bottle (maybe after 2 weeks?) and then maybe 2 weeks after that changed the bedtime bottle to a sippy. 
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  • ljlkmljlkm
    I just kept offering until one day (last week, actually) he'd take it. I wasn't worried about it, though, since I'm not convinced there's an appreciable difference between a bottle and a sippy.
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  • GoalieWifeGoalieWife member
    We transitioned late at 16 months, so I went cold turkey. I had been buying and stocking up sippys for a while, I just chose one, put their milk in it, and never offered a bottle again, I think they were a little confused the first day but by the second day they understood that's all they were getting. Bye Bye Bottles.
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