Warm bottle to cold milk?

fIowerchild · December 2008

HI ladies - please give me your advice!

My son will only take a warm bottle. How do I transition him to the COLD milk that he will get in 2 months? Start giving the formula cooler and cooler?

FSUSammy · December 2008

I wouldn't worry about it just yet. We had no problems going from warm formula to cold milk. You can still warm up milk if he really needs it that way, our daycare does that for some kids, but for the most part DS will drink it warm/cold now.

jessica1080 · December 2008

I would start with trying to give him a room temperature bottle. Also, does he like water or juice? If so, I would give that to him cold to get him used to drinking something cold. Pp is right though...you can always warm his whole milk if you have to for awhile.

jlw2505 · December 2008

My 9 month old has always gotten her milk cold but my older DD nursed for 6 months and was supplemented on formula so we warmed that. Once we stopped nursing, we slowly started making her bottles cooler and cooler until she was getting them at room temp. After a while, she would take them at any temp and she had no issues taking the milk when we gave it to her.

Jess0823 · December 2008

We started dd with warm milk and every day would make it cooler, then room temp and then cold. She didn't take long to transition and your ds may be just fine going straight to cold milk.

howleyshell · December 2008

Think of them as 2 totally different things in your mind.

Get him used to cold water in a sippy and then only put milk in sippies.

Stop the formula and bottles at the same time.

My pedi recommended never putting milk in a bottle. I thought we'd have a tough time dropping bottles but we did it right at a year, almost cold turkey, and it went way better than I expected.

With the formula calories gone DS became a sippy cup fiend. Started chugging milk like a champ.

GL to you!

FaeryStarGazer · December 2008

The way we got the girls used to cold drinks was to give them cold drinks in a sippy. They never got milk or juice or anything in a bottle, only warmish formula. So, bottles were for the warm drink, sippies for the cool.

IAM4UK · December 2008

We did this cold turkey, but with her bottle still. No problems in the transition.

jessicada76 · December 2008

I agree with no milk in the bottle. Put cold (refrigerator cold...we used ice cubes) juice and water in sippy to get used to the sippy and the coldness and then switch cold turkey from formula bottle to milk sippy! GL!

greta&tess · December 2008

I agree with pp. We never did milk in the bottle. So she got warm bottles but cold water in sippys and then cold milk in sippys. We stopped bottles when we stopped formula.

Erika6504 · December 2008

Put cold milk in a sippy and offer it like that. DD never got milk in a bottle and didn't have a problem at all taking milk from a sippy. They taste VERY different so don't think about the fact that milk is replacing formula.

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