Transitioning off the bottle...

Re: Transitioning off the bottle...

• braylei member

  June 2011

  I am having the same problem with my LO. I can't wait to read the responses. My LO drinks water and juice from her sippy, but refuses to drink milk from it.

  

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• BethPSU member

  June 2011

  I cut the daytime ones out first.  It was a similar process to weaning for me.  I stopped giving him a bottle at lunch and just gave him a sippy with milk and then after a few days cut out another bottle.  The bottle before bed was the last to go, but it just happened really naturally and he never seemed to mind even though he seemed to really enjoy his bottles (when I finally got him to take them). 

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• Dreamsicle23 member

  June 2011

  Just suck it up and go cold turkey, and if she's really stubborn cut back on the other fluids so she gets thirsty enough to give in and drink the milk.
  

  

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• puddin pop

  June 2011

  My MIL asks us every week when we're going to stop using a bottle. It never occured to me when we would stop! lol

  I'm going to try doing milk in her sippy cup during the day, then after a week or 2 replace the morning bottle with sippy cup as well. I still like a bottle at bed time because we curl up & read in a big chair in her room but I guess she can still use her sippy cup the same way. It just makes me feel like my baby isnt a baby anymore

  

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• junebug02

  June 2011

  Have you tried the style of cup w/ a straw?  My daughter does really well with that, but not so well with the actual sippy cup. 
  

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• g8trkim member

  June 2011

  BethPSU:

  I cut the daytime ones out first.  It was a similar process to weaning for me.  I stopped giving him a bottle at lunch and just gave him a sippy with milk and then after a few days cut out another bottle.  The bottle before bed was the last to go, but it just happened really naturally and he never seemed to mind even though he seemed to really enjoy his bottles (when I finally got him to take them). 

  We did the exact same thing.

  Just stick to your guns. They won't want to drink much from the sippy at first and that's ok. Over time it will pick up. I tried to give yogurt and cheese a lot for the first couple weeks as the milk intake picked up.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• g8trkim member

  June 2011

  junebug02:

  Have you tried the style of cup w/ a straw?  My daughter does really well with that, but not so well with the actual sippy cup. 
  

  We use straw cups too which I highly recommend.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Heavncentt

  June 2011

  This is what we did:

  Our son only would take to Dr Brown bottles and then to only the straw sippy cups. He is a very determined little boy and will not do anything before he actually wants to. So, what I did was remove one bottle from the day's equation. He went from 4 down to three, 1 at wakeup- 1 at lunchtime- 1 at bedtime. He did perfectly fine with it, didn't even notice as we could tell.  Once he actually started to take juice and water from the straw sippy cup (for about a month now!), I started to transition the bottles of formula to the straw sippy's. I did the bedtime bottle first. We give it to him about an hour before his bedtime so he can drink as he wishes before bed. About 3 days ago, I started switching the lunchtime bottle to a sippy. So far, so good.

  For us, he doesn't understand the concept of tilting the sippy to drink from so once we introduced the straw sippy he got it after about 5 minutes and loves them. We use the Tommee Tippee insulated straw sippy.

  

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