I have a 12 month old daughter and am trying to transition her from bottle to sippy cup. She drinks juice and water from the cup but refuses to drink milk from the cup. I'm also trying to transition her from formula to cow's milk. Someone told me to try both transitions (milk and sippy cup) simultaneously so it will be less painless later on. Has anyone tried this method and has it worked?
I added a little smoothie to the milk in the sippy cup at 12 months. I did this for the first day, and intermittently for a few days. It worked. no bottle after day one. She did have a few mini meltdowns, but I expected it.
We went thru the exact same thing. My daughter is now 18mo old. This is what I did. I did the transition of formula to milk with the bottle. I'd do 2 parts formula 1 part milk for a couple days, then I'd move up 1/2 formula 1/2 milk for the next few days, then 3/4 milk 1/4 formula til she was drinking all milk from the bottle. She started a sippy cup about 8mo old w/ water or juice. Starting at 12mo old I would put straight milk in the cup, but she would never drink it. Once she is on straight milk from bottle, I'd cut out the daytime bottles and give her the milk cup. Keep offering the milk cup, I kept with it, and now my DD loves to drink milk and juice from the cup. I hope this all made sense, this is what I did, best of luck.
Our son was not into the sippy cup and milk either. Then we put a little yogurt in with it and cleverly marketed it to him as " yogurt milk " (we are advertising gold). He is 7 and still drinks it. Give it a try, we had luck with Stonyfield farm banilla and strawberry but anything they like is game :))
Ya, my son did the same thing. They associate formula with the bottle. I would try giving your daughter whole milk in the sippy cup. She might start to associate the milk with the cup, making the transition easier. Just when I thought Peyton would never take the sippy cup- he just did. Hang in there.
When I had my son (8Years ago). We just stopped the bottled cold turkey. The day he turned one we gave him whole milk and no more formula. He had trouble adjusting to it but your child will get what is needed by offering other dairy products with calcium. Try the yogurt drinks or just yogurt itself, also cheese, don't just given American either, try all types, you never know what they will like. The sippy cup shouldn't be an issue once you take the bottle away, your child will learn if it is thirsty the only way to get a drink will be from a cup and NOT the bottle. The hardest bottle to be rid of is the night bottle and the morning bottle. For night offer a sippy cup with water or milk, no juice for sugar reasons around 15 min. before bed. Then do your usual routine. Morning you should be giving some cheerios or chex or possibly cut up fruit before they have their "real" breakfast just to hold them over to breakfast time. Hope this helps.
I used the philosophy that formula was in the bottle and milk was in the cup. After she turned one I started to gradually mix milk in with her formula...after about 2 weeks she was on straight milk from a sippy cup...don't ever give her milk in the bottle....it will take forever to get her to drink from the cup. And if she will allow you to, give to her cold.
Buy a completely different style of sippy cup for the milk. Like the ones with a straw or different style lids. Use one style for the juice, water etc. and one for the milk. It worked for my son and now he drinks anything from everything! :)
I started transitioning my son to whole milk at 11 months, the first week I did 3/4 formula, 1/4 milk, second week I did 1/2 formula, 1/2 milk, 3rd week I did 3/4 milk, 1/4, and the 4th week I did all milk. This worked well. I had my son fully off of the bottle by 13 months. My best advice is realize your baby may never sit down and drink a whole sippy cup of milk like she did with the bottle. I had thought that would happen and we went through a couple of stressful mornings and than I decided my son would drink the milk if he was thirsty. Since taking away the bottle fully he doesn't drink as much milk as he did out of the bottle. I just give him cheese and yogurt and try to get him to drink milk whenever I can. Good luck!!
I am going through this also but my daughter is going to be 2 soon. She needs her bottle to sleep so it's real hard. I give her a sippy cup all day and for naps and bed I give her the bottle. I try not to give her the bottle in the car until she asks for it.
My pediatrician recommened putting water in the bottle and milk in the cup and offering both. In the end kids will choose the milk. I did it and it was surprisingly easy.
For breast milk to cow's milk. I started using all my frozen breast milk. I started by combining 75% breast milk and 25% cow's milk, then reducing the amount of breast milk each time. It also worked and I didn't waste any of my frozen breast milk.
