Parenting Toddlers (1-3) Support Group

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nanda1979 10/26/2011

So I finally took my son's bottle away from him at 16 months. Now really, it wasn't bad for him because he only had two bottles a day anyways.It def was harder for me because its just a reminder that he is growing up. Anyways..I tried to put milk in his sippy cup and he just WILL NOT have it. I tried warming it up (since thats the way he drank his bottles) nope ,no luck there, Ive tried make it like chocolate milk and home made milkshakes. No luck. He loved it in his bottle, but now he just refuses to drink it. Any advice? Thanks.

deleted_user 10/26/2011

Hi Nanda, I had this very problem with my little guy. He really wasn't interested in drinking his milk out of a sippy cup. Since he drinks a lot of water during the day from his sippy cup, the cup wasn't an issue and he just preferred his milk from a bottle.

Like your son, my little guy only has 2 bottles a day, a small one in the morning before brekkie and his normal one at night before bedtime. As he doesn't look for a bottle at any other time of the day/night I went back to giving him his milk out of a bottle. I figured it was just one less battle to worry about. Maybe its going backwards but as long as he is using the sippy cup throughout the day to drink his water, I have no problems with it.

des10ed2b 10/26/2011

have you tried a nuby sport cup? they are very similar to bottles and their nipple is soft. i went from that to a soft nippled regular nuby cup, and then finally a plain ol cup.

nanda1979 10/26/2011

I have the Nuby sippy cup, well its the kind with a straw, so I think thats the one?He never really did the "sippy cups" he started out with juice boxes but since he always squirted them all over the place those sippy cups with the straws are awesome.

deleted_user 10/27/2011

My daughter did the same thing and all i can tell you is that we just gave her juice in that sippy cup for a few days till she got used to it then said you will not get any more juice till you drink milk and it worked! some kids are more stubborn than others but maybe you could try that :)

deleted_user 10/27/2011

My son will drink milk better from a sipppy with a straw or the nuby cup, but honestly he doesn't like milk. If your child will eat yogurt & cheese don't stress on the milk. Leafy greens are another good source of calcium. I was serving 1 cup of milk a day and when i increased to 2 my son had a nasty rash. I went back to 11 when his bottom healed and made sure i offered cheese and yogurt.....his pediatrician also suggested ice cream believe it or not! Oh, and I give cereal in a bowl w/ milk and my son will drink that up.....he is 18mos. :o)

LJPage95 10/27/2011

We're not there yet, so I don't really have any advice of my own to add, but my mom said with me that I rejected drinking juice out of the sippy cup but would drink the milk. She got me a different shaped and colored sippy and then I would drink it. She thinks that it was just a shock to me because I was so used to drinking milk from the sippy that it made the juice taste weird...

Kinda like when you grab J's drink instead of your own... you like his drink okay it just wasn't what you were expecting.

Maybe try something that just looks totally different than what he is used to.

deleted_user 10/27/2011

Mine was the same way. Nothing I did worked. The doctor told me as long as she's eating cheese and yogurt, she's fine. She also suggested I try Pediasure Sidekicks. My daughter loved the vanilla. It's kind of rich for every day, so I switched her to Horizon vanilla milk, and she likes that too. She'll drink those out of her sippy, but still won't drink regular milk (this is 8 months later). So maybe try vanilla flavored milk?

joleneLS 10/28/2011

My daughter is 2 and still doesn't really like milk. She went off of the bottle at six months, so she still took formula from her sippy. But at about 15 months she decided she hated milk.

So instead I fed her tons of other dairy products. And I found she didn't like homo milk as much as 2%, and now 1%. Plus...this may help. Give it to him in an actual cup. Help him of course, for the first while until he gets it himself. But he may just want to be able to look into the cup as he drinks. It's the only way my daughter would drink milk. She started at about 14 months with water, so just putting milk into it didn't seem to bother her.

Good luck!

deleted_user 10/29/2011

My son is 2 and he just switched to drinking his milk in a sippy cup. We tried and he refused I felt like him having milk was more important. When he was ready he gave it up. Good luck

RoxiesMama 10/31/2011

I didn't take my son off the bottle
Until I was confident he was drinking enough out
Of the cups and that wasn't until 20 months. Maybe try different cups, different flavors...choc, vanilla, strawberry...good luck!

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