How does LO drink their milk?

JessicaKS · July 2014

musicalsilver · July 2014

SS for from the tap and open cups

Cricket81 · July 2014

SS - bm from the tap 3 times a day, wcm from a straw cup with meals.

ColieAnn31 · July 2014

He gets milk from a sippy during the day and he gets a bottle of milk at bedtime. We are working on dropping the bottle at bedtime. I'm so ready to put all the bottles away!

JessicaKS · July 2014

I made this poll because I cannot get LO to drink any milk whatsoever from a sippy and I was curious what others situations were. We are doing three bottles a day (wakeup, midday, bedtime) with attempts at milk sippy cups at meals. I was ready to try cold turkey on the bottles at daycare but after she had a meltdown the first day of trying, we decided to let her have one bottle at daycare to give her more time to adjust. Not sure that was the right decision. Why does this need to be so hard?

momofcatan · July 2014

@jessicaKS At this point about 75% of the reason we are still nursing is because DD refused milk from a cup when I tried a month ago. I'm simply putting off the struggle.

bumpuser7846882 · July 2014

Benjamin goes to sleep totally fine at daycare without a bottle, but I've had no such luck at home. We do a bottle at naptime and bedtime, and a sippy cup with meals.

amie444 · July 2014

SS. Sippy cups and from the tap

daffy2k · July 2014

Sippy cup, bottle before naps and bedtime, and still nurses first thing in the morning. I don't totally understand the rush to ditch the bottle...? Am I crazy? So far, we've had pretty easy transitions from nursing to sleep, to nursing before bed but going down awake, to a bottle of milk during story time with daddy... I don't doubt that she will eventually ditch the bedtime bottle all together, but on her own time. If she doesn't by 18-24m I'll look at taking it away. But so far following her lead has worked for us.

momofcatan · July 2014

@daffy2k I think bottles are bad for teeth/oral development so there is a general suggestion to switch away from bottles at 1 year.

daffy2k · July 2014

@araziza - I have definitely seen the suggestion to steer away from bottles after 1. I guess I'm just thinking that moderate use can't really be that bad for oral development... And clearly this is my very uneducated thinking, as I am no orthodontist. I just have a hard time believing that 5-10 min a couple times a day until they are ready to let it go is going to do much damage.

JessicaKS · July 2014

For those of you who are completely done with bottles, how did you make the switch? Cold turkey?

TheTamedShrew · July 2014

winesconstantly said:

BM from the tap and WCM from a straw sippy.

+1

MorganWP · July 2014

She only gets milk in a bottle in the morning and before bed. Sometimes she gets one for a nap but thats only if she's overtired and wont go down.

The rest of the day she gets water in a sippy cup.

numbersgirl08 · July 2014

We just made the switch to all sippy yesterday. So far so good.

sndravt · July 2014

From a straw sippy only. She never used a bottle. Straight from the tap to sippy cup. But she will only drink it warm.

summer2times · July 2014

He has used a sippy cup or straw cup since he was about 11 months for all liquids.

riansmommie · July 2014

Straight from the tap, though he is starting to wean on his own. Nursing in the morning and for about 2 mins at night before bed. I don't offer WCM but juices/water he gets in a camelback during the day. He never took a bottle.

JessicaKS · July 2014

LO drank milk from her sippy cup tonight!!! I have determined that she has a sixth sense about when I have been writing about her on the internet and quickly shapes up soon after! Seriously though, it makes me feel good that I have been letting her move at her own speed and not trying to force things, because as soon as I start getting really worried, she all of a sudden does it all on her own like its NBD. First it was toothbrushing, now this.

In case you are curious about my secrets: I literally filled up her cup with milk, drank it in front of her out of the sippy, and then "shared" it with her. Somehow that inspired her to try it herself. Apparently she decided milk in a sippy cup is just as cool as milk in her bottle. Babies are weird.

mshukh · July 2014

Tap, straw cup, and open cup. Done with bottles at 1 cold turkey, but I did teach him how to use the straw at 7 months so it was an easy transition since he didn't seem to have a preference one way or another.

flerlgirl · August 2014

lol at the boob being the tap. You made me giggle.

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