Bottle to sippy cup transition

angiek · June 2011

We're just on the verge of transitioning from bottles to sippy cups. The boys have been getting sippy cups of water with every meal and getting good practice but still get their bottles with formula (which we will be able to stop during this switch too).

Did you switch cold turkey or make a gradual change? How did this effect your daily & night time routine (or what is your new routine for feedings if you've recently made the switch)?

TIA!!

~ Angie

srh08.05.06 · June 2011

We didn't do the full transition until after they were a year old. I tried to do a gradual change and it kind of worked for one of my girls. But the other did not want to drink milk out of a sippy. So I went cold turkey with her. It was hard because for 2 days, she pretty much didn't drink anything (except at most an oz or so of water). So during that time, we just made sure she had a lot of fruit to keep her hydrated. After 2 days, she finally started drinking milk out of her sippy. It was only an oz or two at the beginning, but now she'll finish her cup most times.

Once we transitioned to only sippies, we stopped the nighttime bottle as well. So we would give them their last cup of milk around 6:30, then change diapers, brush teeth, read them a book and they're in bed by 7. Nothing else changed with our schedule.

jamie217 · June 2011

I'm curious to see what worked for everyone as well since we'll be doing this soon as well. We are currently down to 3 bottles a day - 2 milk and we are going to switch the bedtime bottle to milk Sunday. I was planning on waiting a week and then transferring a bottle to sippy each week starting with their 2nd bottle, then morning and then bedtime, which is how we have been transitioning from formula to milk.

klr210 · June 2011

cold turkey from bottles to born free sippies with a rubber top. not a nipple, but not hard plastic. i felt like it was a good transition.

she was also allowed to play with the cups to get familiarized.

finallyreilly · June 2011

We did a gradual transition - sippy cups during the day and a bottle before bed. After we figured out which sippy cups they liked (which took a couple months) we switched over our bedtime bottle to 1/2 cup of milk in a sippy cup.

tmbuchmann · June 2011

I'm curious what worked for everyone as well, we are about to do something with the bottle, just not sure what yet.

LilCarciofo · June 2011

i started getting them familiarized with a sippie that has a straw (nuby?) with a little juice and water mixed. they take one sip and then like to turn it over and suck the bottom lol then they drop it on the floor ...baby steps i guess

angiek · June 2011

Thanks for all the replies - keep them coming!! I'm glad I'm not the only one going through this transition right now either. A couple of my friends had done the "cold turkey" approach with switching both bottles & formula, so that is what I was thinking but wanted to see what worked for others!

We've definetly been working on figuring out which sippy works best for the past few months - so far our favorites are Munchkin & Nuby - both with soft spouts.

babybash · June 2011

We just made the switch these last two weeks. I introduced sippy cups a while back, just putting water in them and letting them figure them out. I tried milk in them about a month ago just to see what would happen, my DD did okay while my DS spit out the milk. Last week I gave them a sippy cup of milk during lunch and they did well. Then a couple days later I gave them a cup of milk during dinner instead of waiting until right before bed to do a bottle and that worked. And in my desperate attempt to be done with bottles I did not give a bottle this morning and instead waited and did a cup during breakfast and I was shocked that they were okay with it. I thought the hardest bottle to give up was going to be the morning bottle. I really wanted to give up the bottle because my DD was starting to walk around in the morning with her bottle between her teeth. I haven't tried the straw cups but the soft tip ones work for us. Good luck.

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