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14 month old still won't take sippy cup!

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Anyone else out there in the same predicament?

DD drinks 6 bottles a day of breast milk/formula (due to multiple food allergies, there is no milk substitute we can offer her).  She'll drink water from a straw or sippy cup, but only a little.  After a few sips, she'll start spitting out the water.

We've tried giving her the breast milk/formula combo in a sippy, but she just spits it out. 

They're preparing to transition her to the toddler room at daycare, but none of the kids in that room take a bottle, they all take sippys.  I'm sure they'll work with us on this, especially because of her unique nutritional needs, but I'd like to get her to drink more consistently out of a cup.  Does anyone have any advice or tips?  How did you get your LO to stop playing with the sippy cup and start drinking?
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Re: 14 month old still won't take sippy cup!

  • oliversmommy32912oliversmommy32912 member
    Have you tried a day with no bottles to see how she reacts? DS would only drink sips out of straw cups and nothing at all out of hard or soft spout sippy cups so I was afraid to cut bottles cold turkey. One day we just decided to see how he would do and by the end of the day he was fine.

    We transitioned using Zoli Bot cups. They were the only cups we found that he would drink ounces out of instead of sips. I actually hate the cups. They're expensive. They leak like crazy. But they are the only cups I could find that he would drink out of and they have a weighted straw so he could drink from any angle, including lying down.

    Once he was drinking fine out of the Zoli cups we tried other straw cups and now he does fine. In fact, he drinks more liquid from straw cups than he ever did out of a bottle.
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  • jrc2009jrc2009 member
    We had this same problem. My son was breasted and he never really took a bottle, so when we started offering sippies it was completely foreign to him. We bought about 10 sippies before we found one he would take, and the one he took seemed like the liquid was really easy to get out and he didn't have to try hard. Good luck!
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  • LEIGHLOVE09LEIGHLOVE09 member
    I was worried transitioning my DD as well and I tried about 50 sippys. No lie. The only one that she took and likes is the munchkin mighty grip. The spout is soft and similar to the nipple so it was an easier transition. Hope this helps!

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  • aquariogirlaquariogirl member
    A speech therapist recommended this "honey bear zippy" https://www.talktools.com/honey-bear-w-flex-straw/

    I used a few times with diluted apple sauce (has to be used with a thick beverage) and quickly moved to the regular Playtex straw sippy cup. It helped a lot. 
    DS was born in April 2012 at 31 weeks - 45 days in NICU
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  • zbeesma86zbeesma86 member
    we had this issue too- we do the soft sippy cups because more bottle/nipple like. DD hates the hard lid sippy cups
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  • EandIMommy86 EandIMommy86 member
    Philips Avent had sippys with a rubber spout and my daughter took to those right away because the rubber top is more like a bottle and it is thinner than a lot of other rubber tops so it is not a drastic change. See if those work.
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  • HollyBee013HollyBee013 member
    We went cold turkey. We showed LO that we were throwing the nipples away and that she needed to use the soft spout sippy. It took about a day, like pp.
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  • allardrallardr member
    skip sippy cups, go straight to straw cups. My LO never "got" sippys except when I held & tipped. Two days she got straw cups down. Pinch a regular straw to trap water in it, then release in LOs mouth so they realize what its for. Do that a few times and LO will pick up on how to drink from a straw.
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  • foreverapartofmeforeverapartofme member
    My LO was not a big fan of the transition to a sippy cup.  She really would just dump the sippy upside down and get water/milk all over her high chair.  When she turned 16 months, all of a sudden she loved the sippy cup!  I would just keep offering it every day but do not stress over it.  My pedi and I talked about this and said usually before they turn 2 they want a sippy cup so let it happen when he/she is ready!  Have it available at all times and eventually I am sure the sippy cup will become the preference. 
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  • Suzanne68Suzanne68 member
    I have no advice but you are not alone. My daughter will drink water out of sippy with a straw. But she drinks 4 bottles of formula at 15 months because of food alergies also. She is addicted to the bottle and refuses formula any other way. Good luck

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