- Pregnancy
- Baby & Toddler
- Parents
- Getting Pregnant
- Baby Names
- Product Reviews
-
Registry
- Community
-
More
Want a personalized experience?
Download the free app
Working Moms
jlsimon56
member
sippy cups of BM at DC - lots of ?s
jlsimon56
member
in Working Moms
I want to transition LO from bottles to sippy cups at DC. She's 14mo. It's time. (She only just "learned" how to use a sippy cup around 12.5 mo.)
She currently gets three 3oz bottles at DC. She feeds them to herself. I nurse her at 4pm when I pick her up and again before bed, and once overnight. I leave for work before she wakes up in the AM. I still pump 1x at work at 7:30am.
Should we do this slowly (1 sippy cup, 2 bottles) or cold turkey (no more bottles)?
Also, do I have to send 3 separate sippy cups? Do I prefill them? Or should I send like 6-10oz of BM and the teachers can give her a little at a time? I plan to ask them today but LO is the only kid on BM in her class and they usually defer to me.
Thanks!
Warning
No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
This discussion has been closed.
Re: sippy cups of BM at DC - lots of ?s
I've been told to keep formula and breast milk in bottles only, and only serve water, juice, or milk in a sippy cup.
I'd be very concerned with a child drinking breastmilk out of a sippy cup, mostly for the other children who tend to take each other's sippy cups and drink from them.
I think you might be better off posting this on the breastfeeding board....
I did not even think about that!! I think now, they put LO in a high chair so she's sort of separated, but I'd like her to be part of the group.....so maybe we'll do WCM at DC and use the BM up at home? I will ask the teachers and see what they think.
Thank you!
Our pedi suggested going cold turkey to sippies around 9 months, but DS was a little slow to take to them. DC suggested using bottles for milk and sippies for water....we had to kind of play around, and ended up cutting off the bottles at 1 year when he switched to cow's milk, and he was just fine with them at that point.
If you're worried about wasting breastmilk, I'd send a large container with the BM for the day and 3 empty bottles and 3 empty sippies- let DC add a small amount to a sippy, and if she refuses, they could give her the rest in a bottle without wasting much.
Also- Tommy Tippee had some cool sippies that had the ozs marked just like a bottle and had covers for the tops....I felt a little more secure using those for BM than one of the bigger sippies.
I would send the breast milk in a sippy exactly the same way you do in a bottle. Make sure they're labeled clearly, etc.
I think a toddler is just as likely to try to take another toddler's bottle as they are a sippy.
Charlotte Ella 07.16.10
Emmeline Grace 03.27.13
I would talk to your DC, but some kids have allergies, so they better have a way to keep sippy cups to specific kids.
I also vote for cold turkey on the bottles. DS didn't start taking milk from a sippy until that was his only option.
My two boys are getting a surprise May 2015!
This. For us, it means I send one sippy cup and the milk in the bottles I pump into (or frozen bags on Mondays), just like I did when it was a bottle instead of the sippy. The pour one container of milk into the sippy to give DS with morning snack and the other container of milk into the (same, washed) sippy with lunch. Then send the sippy cup home in the afternoon for washing. I also send a straw sippy that he uses for water. They reuse the same water sippy all week, rinsing each day, and give it back to wash on the weekends. I don't like straw sippys for BM because I'm concerned about milk residue getting stuck - not sure if that's something to be worried about, but I do.
DS, May 2011