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Get my kid off the bottle!

Miller238Miller238 member
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I am struggling with this so bad!  She is 19 months old and still takes a bottle.  She will not drink anything from a sippy cup unless it is water.  The only two things she will drink are her formula from the bottle and water from a sippy.

She outgrew her rice allergy (YAY!) so we have moved onto rice milk.  As soon as it hits her lips from her straw on her sippy, she freaks out and throws it down.

FYI - We have also tried a million different sippy cups.  None work.  And we have tried going cold turkey for three days and only giving her formula from a cup.  After three days of not drinking anything, we had to stop and go back to the bottle.  I want her off bottles like yesterday.  And it is selfish of me, but man, I am sick of cleaning those damn things every day!

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  • magdusiamagdusia member

    congrats on rice! that's awesome!

    wow - i could have wrote this myself!  My kid is 20 months old and i think he'll be using his 2 (or 3) bottles a day until he goes to college. 

    I also tried going cold turkey and like you, wouldn't drink anything other than water.

    I'm also soooo sick of washing bottles!! it's not selfish.. it's just time to move on.. I have a huge bin with sippy cups. he loves his sippy for water, but not milk.  

    Recently i tried putting chocolate syrup (allergy friendly) in his milk (cool) and seeing if he drinks it outside in the heat but he was confused and pushed it away.. but i think he liked it -just was confused.. so i'll try again.  If your DD can have a the allergy friendly chocolate syrup than i would try chocolate milk, i heard it works for many parents.  This way she can have 2 cups of chocolate milk (and maybe lower the chocolate after time).. who knows.. might work.

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  • Miller238Miller238 member
    What brand is the allergy-friendly chocolate?  We tried the Enjoy Life chocolate morsels a couple of weeks ago and she liked eating those and asked for more.  So, maybe chocolate will fly with her? 
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  • magdusiamagdusia member

    we use this one.. so it's already melted and all you have to do it is shake it with the milk for a bit.

    i like that it changes the color so it doesn't look like milk (too much) so he thinks it's a complete different drink.  I think last time i didn't put enough syrup so i need to try with more.


     

     

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  • Miller238Miller238 member

    Thanks!  Where do you buy this?

     

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  • magdusiamagdusia member
    imageMiller238:

    Thanks!  Where do you buy this?

     

    I got mine at my local health food store (mrs. Greens) but you can get it at whole foods probably or other health food stores. 

    here is a store locator for it

    Amazon also has it

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  • blue33blue33 member

    My nephew refused the sippy cups, but would drink from a straw. WHICH WAS SOOO WIERD! The only way my sister got him off the bottle was to buy cups with lids and straws. I guess him seeing her drink out of a straw encouraged him to do the same.

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  • mamanduchessmamanduchess
    My kids dentist hates sippy cups, so we sat with the kids at the table and just gave them a little at a time in regular cups. My kids LOVE drinking from espresso cups while I drink out of a mug. Maybe if it's something you use, she'll cooperate?
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  • DeetzoreoDeetzoreo
    I feel like I'm reading my own story except my son will be 4 in 2 weeks.  He is autistic and has sever food allergies to everything under the son so he gets almost all of his nutrion from Neocate formula.  We have been trying to change him to a sippy cup from about 10 months.  We can't do cold turkey or we would risk his health since he has no interest in eating.  We have recently started on our 8 millionth regular cup and he has finally decided that it might not be so bad.  Fingers crossed.  I would try going straight to a cup.  It might be a pain but maybe go to a cup get comfortable then maybe move to a straw in the cup and work backwards.  Good luck!
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