What to do about a LO who will drink anything BUT formula/milk out if a sippy

BPer · August 2013

DD loves all sippy cups. We have some playtex, Tommee tippee, nuby, with both spouts and straws and she drinks water or yogurt out of them all of the time. Whenever I offer her a sippy with formula, she immediately spits it out. Tried some WCM yesterday, thinking that the thicker consistency might make a difference. It did not. She took a giant swig and was then covered in milk. The post below from @redneckmomma got me thinking. Hannah is still on 8oz., 3x per day from a bottle and we had hoped to be off bottles by one year also. Any suggestions?

kelbel527 · August 2013

Is temperature an issue? DS2 is a warm bottle snob. We purposely only give him cold formula in a sippy and he gets warm formula in a bottle (to prep him for WCM). Because of that, he drinks very little formula out of a sippy, but will chug water if we give it to him.

We just keep offering it to him and eventually he started drinking more out of his cup. He gets a sippy 4x/day with 2 snacks, lunch and dinner. He gets a bottle after each meal (except lunch), but the more used to the sippys he gets, the less he drinks from the bottle.

BPer · August 2013

@kelbel527 I'm not sure if it's a temperature issue. She drinks room temperature and cold water out of the sippy, and the yogurt is cold too. I've tried room temp and chilled formula and both get the same reaction.

Stasi · August 2013

My only recommendation would be to keep trying. The first time (and several times after) Kate had a sippy full of formula/milk she literally threw the cup across the room. Now, she'll take sips here and there. I think the most she's ever drank was 2oz. So, it's slowly getting better.

I offer 4oz. of formula in a sippy @ breakfast, lunch and dinner. She gets a 6 oz. bottle before her two naps and before bed. When she gets a little better at drinking out of the sippy, we'll transition to sippys and snack before naps and the very last bottle to go will be the bedtime bottle.

I'm not stuck on the idea of her being off the bottle at 12mo. either. AAP says by 15 months. I'm aiming for Jan. 1 2014.

kelbel527 · August 2013

BPer said:

@kelbel527 I'm not sure if it's a temperature issue. She drinks room temperature and cold water out of the sippy, and the yogurt is cold too. I've tried room temp and chilled formula and both get the same reaction.

Hmm, then I agree with @stasi. Just keep trying. You have a month before she turrn a year, and IMHO I wouldn't stress too much if she doesn't start doing it by then.

We did a bedtime bottle after 12 months. Also - DS1 was never as good of a WCM drinker as he was with formula in a bottle. Once we went 100% sippy, he never drank nearly as much as he did in bottles. The amount of food he was eating by that point was filling him enough that he wasn't drinking as much milk.

Stasi · August 2013

I think the WCM recommendation is 16-24oz. a day. If your LO drinks a few ounces with B/L/D and then some with snacks they will be at the "proper" amount.

BPer · August 2013

@mathlete her formula has always been room temperature, and she won't even take that in a sippy, even if she's starving. Spits it right out. Difficult baby.

bosha711 · August 2013

Continue to offer it as you wean off the bottle & supplement with foods like yogurt & cheese. It will take time for her to make the new association.

opaque1997 · August 2013

We've been struggling - so I asked daycare to help out - I had been giving her a sippy with formula with a meal / snack - then pouring left overs into the bottle and giving her that. What I've moved to (after seeing she will take a full "bottle" in a cup at school) is offering NO bottles during the day - so she gets a bottle in the AM when she gets up, then at home I offer no bottles (She does get one around 3 at school) and then one in the evening. I'm not a hard A$$ yesterday she was strugglign for some reason (over tired maybe) so I did give her a bottle after dinner. Anyway - she drinks it out of the cup when she knows thats it.. sometimes its less then she normally drinks but I've learned / read / heard - this is normal during the transition and to roll with it. (I just make a bigger bottle before bed to make sure she has enough to sleep with)

Stasi · August 2013

UPDATE! Kate had been using a straw sippy cup for water and it finally occurred to me (duh) after reading @origamipoppy 's post that I should be putting milk in there instead. She drank almost 4oz. with dinner.

I think we will be pushing forward and cutting out bottles (except maybe before bed) in the next two weeks.

FTR - I taught Kate how to drink out of the straw sippy cup and suck down puree pouchs by putting them to my mouth and making an obnoxious sipping (slurping) noise. Kate mimicked it and after a few tried actually got enough suction going to get liquid up the straw.

BPer · August 2013

@stasi I was able to get Hannah to take 2ish oz of WCM out of a sippy yesterday afternoon. The only issue is that every 2 sips, she'll take a big one and let it run out of her mouth, so it gets messy. But, I'm pushing forward with transitioning her afternoon bottle to a sippy cup starting today. We'll see how it goes!

Stasi · August 2013

BPer said:

@stasi I was able to get Hannah to take 2ish oz of WCM out of a sippy yesterday afternoon. The only issue is that every 2 sips, she'll take a big one and let it run out of her mouth, so it gets messy. But, I'm pushing forward with transitioning her afternoon bottle to a sippy cup starting today. We'll see how it goes!

That is seriously how Kate still is. What's with letting it all just come out?

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