My 16 month old will NOT drink her milk from cups, ( i have tried all kinds) only a bottle. We even through all the bottles in the trash with her help and she said bye. Three days later we got new ones. Also for the past week she has been waking up for like 4 ozs of milk at night. She has been sleeping through the night since she was about 10 months. What is making her wake again?
I would like to say thank you to all the moms for giving me hope and a little relief with the whole bottle situation. If she wakes tonight im going to try the water thing. And yes ive tried the straw cups, she drinks water and juice from them but not milk. She would drink the milk from the cups with the soft spout but the dr said thats as worse as the bottle. I guess ill see how it goes...
My youngest son drank out of a bottle till he was 4 (we were tired). He had a 4.67 GPA this semester.
If you can't get her to stop drinking out of a bottle, don't worry, she'll be fine.
The only difference between a bottle and a sippy is in our own minds. One has a soft flexi tip, one has a harder tip. They're the same durn things. So why fight for one over the other? That's my reasoning, anyway. We used bottles until 3 or 4 yo. We switched to sippies around age 3 in the daytime, just because kiddo was in preschool.
As for waking... she's hungry. The milk gives her body proteins, fats, sugars, vitamins, & minerals. Easy fix. Far easier than needing to actually cook something. 1 will get you 50 she's about to head into a growth spurt.
Ditto Riley Ditto Rachel Ditto Page.
We approached it the same way with our kids and my son.... who is 3 almost 4 years old.
NO biggie.
Also, your baby is going through a growth-spurt now... all the things you describe... is spot on a growth-spurt. They do that.
In our culture, the focus is on de-taching a baby and child from everything... very early. In other cultures, it is not the focus.
all the best,
Susan
I agree with the first post, just give her time and she will give it up on her own. Just put everything except milk in a sippy. My 4 year old gave his up mostly around 2.5 and now only asks if he is tired or upset. I was ready to take the bottle away at 2 but I was pregnant so I figured he will just want the baby's bottle.
We had trouble transitioning to cups as well but discovered it was because she didn't like tilting her head back to drink, either from a sippy or a big girl cup. Solution was to buy a bunch of those flexible straw cups. We tried loads of different kinds before we discovered the magic "juice baba".
The Munchkin Mighty Grip Straw Cup is here to save the day!
Teaching her to sip through a straw was another challenge all together. I couldn't seem to properly explain how to suck on a straw. She kept blowing into it and it was driving me crazy until I got the idea that maybe she didn't realize there was liquid on the other end of that straw. I got a regular straw from the pantry and poured some apple juice into a regular glass and sat her at the table. I then let her watch me dip the end of the straw into the juice, then place my finger over the hole at the top of the straw to trap some juice inside (like we used to do as kids). I then lifted the straw containing the little sip of trapped juice out of the cup slowly and held it above her. She raised her face up like a little baby bird and I sad, "Open up baby! It's good!" And when she opened her mouth I popped the straw in.
Because there was a little drip of juice on the bottom of the straw she knew there was liquid there and she just sucked instinctively so I released my finger from the top of the straw and let the sip of juice rush into her mouth. She loved it. I did it a few more times and then put the straw back in the glass and had her try to suck the juice up again.
She'd suck a little and I'd see the liquid move halfway up the straw and then she'd stop and it would fall back down. She'd make a frustrated noise and try again with the same effect. I cut some length off the straw and gave it back and had her try again. This time she got it. I let her drink a bit then I gave her back the longer straw again and when she would get the liquid to the point she used to and then give up I would cheer her on and tell her to keep going! keep doing it! And she finally got the liquid all the way up a full length bendy straw.
After that, re-introducing the sippy straw cups was just cake.
The thing to do is to stop catering to her. When she gets thirsty, she will drink. Go to the store, have her pick out her new "big girl" cups. Then get rid of the bottles. Don't look back. Even if it seems she is thirsty. Trust me, she will drink when she needs it.
My grandson doesn't like the sippy yet. He's 11 months old and we are not really all that keen on getting rid of the bottles just yet. He does sleep mostly through the night. My daughter has started to give him drinks right out of her cup. He really likes to drink from a cup when we hold it for him. My mother handed him a little kid cup recently though and he cried and cried when he spilled it on himself. He has no idea how to hold the cup properly. He'll get it when he's ready.
I personally think we try way too hard these days to push kids out of bottles, out of diapers, and we should just let them be babies a little longer. My 4 daughters were mostly 2 and a half before we made the bottles go bye bye.
hi there...
i would say try these cute plastic disney cups at the disney store and buy colorful straws for her to use. i don't know if u've tried those yet, but it worked for my daughter. she's probably getting up because of the stress of losing her bottle.
the best thing u can do is throw them away again and don't buy new ones and she will get used to the new cups.
p.s. my daughter NEVER liked sippy cups, she preferred the straw so just see what she likes. good luck with that! =)
its just an anxiety of letting her bottles go, stick with it next time.. try not to give in.. i know its hard especially if she is your 1st. but in the long run getting her off the bottle know. will be healthier for her. like anything that she try is new, make a big deal out of it, then she will try more and begin to do this for the positive reaction mommy is giving her. and the bottles will be gone forever...
Our son didn't drink milk well until he was almost 2. He loved water out of cups but not milk. If she is getting a well balanced diet, then just toss the bottles (DON"T BUY NEW ONES!) and she will adjust. We just kept offering cups of milk during meal times and eventually he started to drink more.
Have you tried letting her drink out of a cup WITH NO COVER OR NO SPILL PROOF PIECE??? Maybe she doesn't like having to work so hard to get the milk out? Bottles flow quite easily.
The rule I've always had (did daycare for 5 years) is that the bottle goes at 12 months and the nuk goes at 18 months. Followed the same rule with my kids! Doctors and dentists recommend getting those things away from kids at young ages for a reason! It hurts their teeth. So why take the chance of doing damage that would need surgery to fix???
IF you do choose to continue on the bottle....... I suggest that you switch back to a stage 1 or slow flow nipple to encourage HER to give it up on her own.
First I am glad you gave her the bottle back. My goodness she is a baby.
Do not understand the big deal. Everyone has to be on a sippy cup.
As for waking up, who knows. Just give her water in the bottle, she will
realize not worth getting up for. Good luck. Hope she is enjoying her
bottle.
My daughter never drank milk out of anything but the bottle. So when we got rid of the bottle so went the milk. She had plenty of other sources of calcium in yogurt and cheese so our pediatrician was not worried about her lack of milk consumption. Some kids just do not want milk (they liked the comfort of the bottle not necessarily what was in it). My daughter is 6 now and perfectly healthy.
The only kind of cup I was able to transition with was an Avent sippy cup. It had a soft spout to drink from...here's the catch. I had to remove all the "spill proof" apparatus because without it she found it too difficult to drink from. Once I did that she liked it better. Hope that helps.
Hi there. Could she be hungry? Or maybe she's using the milk to soothe her back to sleep? My daughter, up until she was 2, would refuse to drink milk from a cup and would only take it from a bottle (even though she drank everything else -- water, juice etc -- from a cup). She also drank at night, and we eventually figured it out that it was a soother for her. We replaced the milk with water during the night feeding. She'd push the bottle away, and sometimes scream until we gave her milk, other times give up and go back to sleep. Eventually, she stopped waking up (didn't like the water as much I guess). She's 26 months now and drinks from a cup only (no more bottles, yay!), but to this day we put a sippy in her bed for the night, and she knows where to find it and gets it herself when she wakes up. Occasionally (like last night), she asks for milk, but I told her I have no milk only water, and she drank a tiny bit, put it away and went back to sleep. So try giving your little one water first, from a bottle (it's no big deal, as long as she uses a sippy for all other drinks), then eventually switch to a cup.
I would just give her the bottle a little longer and try again in a few weeks. She's still little and most kids have some kind of attachment to something to comfort them...bottles, blankets, pacifiers, etc. She might be waking b/c she is stressed about missing her bottle during the day and that little bit of comfort at night is soothing. If she drinks from the cup with the soft spout then switch to that and keep transitioning. Dr's are a bit crazy with what kids should and should not be doing IMO - YES, I respect them but we don't always need to follow every little thing they say without thinking for ourselves. Just let her be, why the push to lose the bottle anyway? Is it bothering you for some reason? For me it was all about the pacifier with my son, he used it to sleep and when we prematurely tried to take it away (b/c we were so fixated on what BOOKS and DR's and OTHER judgemental parents thought of it - even though he ONLY used it to sleep) it was a disaster, eventually he gave it up completely on his own (a little after 2.5 yrs old) I couldn't belive it - I swore I would never push or make such a big deal every again like that, live and learn (he's my first and still my only) but others with kids his age had issues with the bottle and had it WAY longer than your daughter. Just keep giving her the choice to have the cup and don't stress b/c she will feel that and be resistant. Like on friend said to me, no child goes to kindergarden with a paci, well they don't go with a bottle of milk either. Her teeth will be fine! Probably better from all the vitamin D and calcium - LOL! Enjoy that she's drinking milk - hahaha, b.c my son now,not even 3.5, has really decreased his milk intake for juice. : (
