Anyone go cold turkey with sippy/milk.

kim_and_tony · December 2008

We have been trying whole milk in sippy for a week. DD takes two good drinks and then either refuses or drinks and lets it run out of her mouth. She does this with formula in sippys but loves water in sippys so its not that she doesn't know how to use them.

I'm thinking of just getting rid of bottles and formula this weekend, but I didn't know if that was too harsh.

Married3.22.03 · December 2008

We'll be doing that this week I think. We're just finishing up the last can of formula. DD's pedi suggested cold turkey, so we'll see!

katy75 · December 2008

We did about 10 days ago. She was getting juice in sippy so knew how to use them. We just stopped bottles/formula and went straight to cold milk in sippy cups one day. We've never looked back and she doesn't seem to care or miss the bottles.

abpdjs · December 2008

we did cold turkey per our ped the day after his first bday. i waited until he was hungry for breakfast and gave him a sippy with milk. he took a few big gulps and i thought to myself, great! then he shuddered and did not want much to do with it. i just put it back in the fridge and kept offering it to him. then i decided to offer him some milk in a bottle that same day before his nap and he guzzled the milk out of a bottle. that told me it wasn't the milk, just the delivery of the milk. so for his second nap i offered him milk in a nubby sippy (a sutto bottle imo) and he guzzled it. from that point on he drank milk from a nubby and then i switched him to a hard spout sippy. he took 16 ounces the first day and now he is a milk fiend. gl! it worked for us b/c he was never attached to bottles. he never used them for comfort. he would drink his formula and then go. i think that made it easier for us.

mlb917 · December 2008

I had the same problem with milk and sippies at first. I finally did just take away all the bottles (except bedtime). I think that he just wasn't thirsty enough for milk in sippies at meals if he was getting bottles too. For a few days, he didn't drink much milk, but he eventually got better at it. He still doesn't drink a ton of milk (probably about 10 oz. per day from the sippy), but I think it helped him eat solid foods better...he's pretty much a bottomless pit for solids now, which I think is good.

XseeinstarsX · December 2008

I got my little guy down to 2 a day then I just went cold turkey. It was about a week after his first birthday. He was fine. He was a little hard to put to bed at night, but he loved to eat so as long as his belly was full he was ok.

kim_and_tony · December 2008

Thanks! I'll keep you all posted!

Dimplz · December 2008

With DS, we slowly transitioned him off of bottles and formula. We dropped the 2 mid-day bottles first (no milk substitute), then with the morning and night bottle, we started diluting with milk (10% milk, 90% formula for a few days, then 20% milk, 80% formula and so on) until he was getting all whole milk in both. After that, we dropped the morning bottle and replaced it with a cup. Soon after, we decided to drop the night bottle. By this time, he was drinking out of a sippy all day and didn't even seem to mind when his evening bottle was replaced with a sippy.

We started this when he was 12 months and I finally put the bottles away at 14 months.