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Need bottle weaning help

maryh01maryh01
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J is drinking WCM exclusively now, but I cannot get him to drink it out of a cup.  I always offer it in a cup first and he gets excited like "hey...there's my cup!" but then when he takes a drink and realizes there's milk in there he pushes it away.  He'll drink water and juice out of a cup no problem but can't seem to make the transition to drinking milk out of the cup.  We've tried several kinds of cups, but it's the same with all of them.  Anyone have any magic tricks or just keep trying?  I'm thinking of just getting rid of the bottles all together and going cold turkey...
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Re: Need bottle weaning help

  • mythreesons03mythreesons03
    I would say just keep trying. My boys are the same. Darrian never would drink it from a sippy cup, and had it in a bottle till he was almost 3. Then we got rid of the bottles and he stopped drinking milk. Just recently he has started drinking milk out of a regular cup with no lid.
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  • jsugrinjsugrin member

    I would go cold turkey and I would do it before he gets to be about 18 months.  If you think he's stubborn now you can not believe what happens at 18 months, I swear it's like a light switch gets thrown and they develop attachments in a crazy way.

    With my oldest he could drink out of a cup just fine at 6 months and he would drink milk but he had a bottle with nap and bedtime and they were such nightmares that I was not interested in the drama of taking away the bottle for those.  Since he would drink milk out of a sippy outside of sleepytime I wasn't too worried but when we saw him start to get super attached as he closed in on 18 months I new we had to make the break.

    With #2 he never needed a drink to go to sleep and he would drink milk out of a sippy but he just liked his bottles.  I thought it was no big deal and we didn't make it a priority.  Kid hit 18 months and OMG that bottle was the most important thing in his life.  He went from having them once in awhile AKA when all the cups were in the dishwasher or dirty to demanding, demanding them for all milk and wanting one at nighttime.  He would take a sippy with milk and THROW it like he was trying out for the Olympics.  It was a rough, rough road and I'm pretty sure he was over 2 before we finally got rid of them for good.  He got to a point where he was exclusively drinking milk out of a bottle, drinking almost no water.  I finally packed them all up one night and that was that.  He cried, and cried and cried when I told him the bottles were all gone and then pathetically searched the entire house, insistent there must be one somewhere.  After that big freak out he was pretty much fine, a little less milk for maybe a week but it was fine.  I'm sure it would have been easier had we done it earlier.

    Ask yourself what is stopping you now and then ask yourself if that issue is going to get easier or harder the older he gets.

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