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Milk only?

chloe071603chloe071603
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My DD is 13 months old, and has been on WCM for just over a month now.  She is off bottles, and only drinks from sippy cups.  My problem is that she will drink nothing besides milk.  No water, no juice, no water/juice combo, no smoothies.  I've tried these things in bottles, different sippy cups, a regular cup.  She just isn't having it.  I'm at the point now of mixing milk/water just so she isn't getting huge quantities of milk each day. 

Any tricks for getting your kid to like anything else?

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  • JennaNAaronJennaNAaron member

    LO would not drink water when he came to us.  He got really congested and I cut off the milk for a few days.  I bought some flavored water.  It's not great, but not awful.  He had that a couple times a day for a week or so...now he drinks plain water no problem....don't know if the flavored water is what did it, but he drinks it like a champ now.

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  • jrsmama2010jrsmama2010 member
    im glad you posted this. DS drinks juice and milk but wont drink water at all.  If I mix it in his juice he throws his cup or hands it back to me.  I think we will try the flavored water though
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  • etude de la vieetude de la vie member

    We had similar issues with DD and our occupational therapist suggested certain sippy cups only get milk while others water.

    So we do the clear nuby sippy cups for ONLY milk. The insulated playtex (with cars/flowers) designs or themed thermos cups for water, and juice is ONLY from a juice box.

    This really helped! I never get asked for juice in a sippy cup, they know if they get milk or not (and we only give milk during specific times in our daily routine) and they only get a juice box if we are out to eat, after the park, or a special time. I find the "fruitables" juice box only has 7g of sugar so I don't mind that it isn't diluted.

     We had a few days of resistance but she got with it really quick. It also helped because with 2 so close in age I had a few days during our newborn phase where she found an old sippy in the couch drank it and said "yummy milk" and I thought it was water because it was in a playtex cup and it was long overdue! 

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  • chloe071603chloe071603
    Thanks for the suggestions!  I will be trying both the flavored water and specific cups.  DD is also very congested, and I know the milk isn't helping at all.  Coming to think of it, she has been congested for the past month, which coincides perfectly with her starting WCM and refusing everything else.  Hmm....
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  • dairygirl19dairygirl19 member

    That's normal. I think most kids are that way actually.

    I wouldn't even worry about it and just go with it. Offer a bit of water here and there throughout the day.

    ETA: since he's so congested (I missed that part), I'd limit milk to before nap or bed and just give him water the rest of the day. See what happens. He either drinks or he doesn't..it won't hurt him either way.

    Also, if you want a more natural flavored water I put lemons, cucumbers or whatever frozen fruit I have on hand in LOs sometimes. She loves it!

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  • Wufroggy79Wufroggy79 member
    I would introduce water as much as you can.  I wouldn't worry at all about the juices and smoothies.
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