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June 2011 Moms
CarlaAndJames
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Hysterical since starting WCM?
CarlaAndJames
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Lexi was EBF until about 6 months, then we started supplementing, and recently she's been getting 3 bottles a day - in the morning, afternoon (at daycare), and one that she drank part of when she got home from daycare at 4, and then finished at bedtime (plus she nurses at 5am and bedtime).
We'd been working on the cup transition, so school switched to all cups with her formula a couple of weeks ago. No problems. She was about 50/50 taking the cup from me, if she got upset I'd just pour it in a bottle (that was prob my mistake. Daycare told me no need to push until we got to WCM, and then once we got to WCM to not offer a bottle at all anymore so she only knows it in a cup).
Well, this week the formula's running low, so I switched her bottles to cow's milk, except reserving enough to do a bedtime bottle for a few days, so we didn't have to totally screw our bedtime routine just yet. Today was the second day, and for the second day in a row she came home from daycare hysterical. She is crying almost nonstop from the time she gets home (4ish) until she goes to bed (7ish). And last night she woke up a few times crying, but put herself back to sleep within 1-2 minutes (unusual for her to wake at all). I feed her food dinner and offer her a cup of milk around 5, but any time she sees me with the cup it sets her off again. If I get her happy for 3 seconds, something sets her off and she's on the floor crying again. This is not like her at all!
Could the milk be hurting her belly? She had milk based formula, I always ate dairy while breastfeeding, she's had lots of yogurt and cheese with no problems?
Is it just a comfort thing? she misses the bottles? Is she hungry bc she's not getting enough calories? (She's still eating pretty well with solids, and I feed her until she definitely seems done) Any advice would be appreciated. I hate seeing her this upset 
ETA: she is teething too, but she was teething over the weekend too and it wasn't quite like this. My momma instincts are telling me she's reacting to the big change, but I cant figure out if its the milk or the cup, or what.
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Re: Hysterical since starting WCM?
DD did the same think with the cup. We tried giving her the same one she used for water in a different color thinking she was associating the cup with water and was mad that milk was in it, no go, as soon as she figured out there was milk in there, she wouldn't touch it. And then gave us a hard time with her regular cup.
Our pedi told me last week to keep trying the sippy but since she just made the change to milk he wanted her to take it however we could get her to, even if we had to put it in the bottle, because she was on high calorie formula and we want to watch her weight / height gain for one month on milk before deciding if we need to add calories or not. So I would always try the cup and she would flip until I put it in a bottle. Last week I got her a nuk cup with the soft spout (which is really just a bottle) and she'll take that. So we're going to do that for now, and hope she picks up on another cup soon.
Is she drinking WCM from the cup at school? Maybe she still needs that comfort at home. Wish I had more answers... Your not alone in the difficult cup transition.
Yep, she's taking it fine at school. But she seems pissed that I even deign to offer it to her!
Hmm, maybe she's just associated the bottle with you and home then. Wish I had a better answer, we caved and are doing the soft spout for a while.