Advice desperately needed

myskyegirl · January 2014

Lo stopped bottles and formula on Saturday, the food went awesomely, but she refuses to drink fluids.

We've tried 3 different cups, hard plastic, soft plastic, a cup that let's you drink from all sides, she tried all of them once and then won't use it again. We've tried water, milk, water with a little juice mixed in and that won't tempt her. I tried giving water to her from an open cup, it worked for a day but now she just let's the water fall out of her mouth. I've also tried using a straw by putting the water in her mouth with the straw, but she fights everything. She blocks her face with her arms, screams, moved around, short of pinning her down I have no idea what to do. I'm terrified that she's going to get sick, and that we will to have to bring her to the hospital for dehydration.

Edit - Forgot to mention, I tried the bottle but she refused to drink from it.

HELP

kerbear135 · January 2014

Have you tried a straw cup? I know DD doesn't like when we feed her out of a straw, but she likes her straw cup. We have the Playtex training one that allows you to squeeze the sides to teach LO how to suck from the straw. I hope you find something that works for her.

Jackiemxoxo · January 2014

Could you try a transition of formula mixed with milk? See if it is the liquid or the vessel? You could also try milk in the bottle. It sounds like stopping them both together may be too big of a transition for her and it may be easier to drop one and then the other.

DD never had formula or took a bottle for that matter so these are just suggestions. I know it can be stressful and you feel pressured to cut them out with all our lo's turning one, but just do whatever works for now to get her to drink. Although if your dc doesn't allow bottles at that age or something like that then ask for suggestions.

ETA- I saw you just wrote that she won't take the bottle either. It could be teething if she is just not drinking or she could be sick. Just keep offering and hopefully she will take it if thirsty enough

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SingleMom31 · January 2014

No real advice, but our DD is at that stage too. She doesn't want a bottle other than right before bed (which I'm pretty sure is just comfort at this point), but she's not a fan of any of the cup options. It's almost like she's stopped drinking altogether. She LOVES to suck the purees out of the packets, so I thought a straw cup would be a sure thing, but it's a no-go. The best that we've come up with is giving her apple sauce packets since they're mostly water anyway. I figure that if she's getting enough liquidy food that she's at least not going to get dehydrated (I'd worry if it were 90 degrees, but it's 9 below here today).

myskyegirl · January 2014

Thank you ladies. We do put the cups on the floor and her PNP. It is funny to watch her bend over the cup on the floor and try to drink out of it that way, Lol. Speaking of that, I gave her pieces of banana and she couldn't pick it up so she bent over and picked a piece up with her mouth. Lmao

@kerbear135, I'll have find that straw cup, one more cup couldn't hurt.

@singlemom31, I agree with the temp comment. I'm in Boston and we just got dumped with close to a 1' of snow and it's 10" here right now.

MrsBigTime · January 2014

I don't know if this would help, but when my DD refuses a drink I pretend to drink out of it so that she thinks it's mine. She seems to always want whatever I am having!

L also loves smoothies and I find that she'll drink way more that way over anything else. Maybe try a milk-based smoothie?

dee12807 · January 2014

We want through this also when DD was a bout 10 months. She flat out refused the bottle, and after a day or two putting formula in a cup was also a no go. It took about 2 weeks to fully transition herself, but we switched to milk in a dippy cup and were done with formula just like that! D likes ice water, I think because she likes the sound of the ice when she shakes the cup

laura1 · January 2014

My DD did the same thing. I was lucky to get 3-4 ounces of fluid into her all day. I left water cups in her crib, pack and play and super yard to tempt her. I also tried all sorts of cups - and she finally started drinking from the nuby one (after 3 WEEKS!) I found a girly version of this one: https://www.amazon.com/Nuby-Monster-Handle-No-Spill-Sippy/dp/B008RXWCT4/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1388893990&sr=8-11&keywords=nuby+sippy+cup

at marshalls, and she got it in her stocking. Since then, she will drink about 2 cups of milk a day. Not fabulous but a VAST improvement. Also, if the other kids leave their water cups lying around, she will find them and drink from them. Not quite sure why, but if she is getting some fluids, i don't really care (as long as the other 2 kids are healthy!).

It was super frustrating - DD#1 did the same thing, but gave in and drank from her cups after 2 days. With DD#2, it took 3 WEEKS! I never tried giving her back the bottle - I was done with those! Good luck - she will eventually drink when she is thirsty.

ilenegrace · January 2014

I would try maybe popsicles? or water in a syringe to put in her mouth similar to the straw method but alittle easier. And try not to worry! Monitor the wet diapers and if she goes under 3 in 24hrs then I would take her in. Good luck!!!

kescalera · January 2014

Killian will drink anything out of anything... or at least pretend to. We started handing him straw-sippy cups, regular sippy cups, bottles, every form of cup (except open) with water about 6 weeks ago and let him play with them. He would "drink" out of them, throw them, bang them on everything but eventually figured out how to drink for real. We picked water so that when they drip/spill/etc it wasn't a big deal. Now he has a certain straw-sippy (that he has to bite the straw to open the hole) that he carries around everywhere. We do half/half water & juice.

I was really worried about fluid in take as well but since we sort of made a game of the cups he's taken to them pretty well. I'm always asking him "Where's your juice?" even if the cup has just water in it so that it stays in his thought process throughout the day.

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