I cannot for the life of me get my 13 month old to drink from a sippy. We've been trying for almost 4 months now. I've tried every cup imaginable- straws, hard nipple, soft nipple, etc. I've tried doing formula, juice, water, milk anything to see if she'll be interested and nothing. We got her to drink 2 sips of water out of one with a straw but she still mainly just plays with it and throws it.
We recently tried just giving her a regular cup and she flipped out. She only wants the bottle. She'll drink anything so long as it's in the bottle.
HELP!!!
Thanks so much. I'm going to get rid of the bottles. She never held her bottle either so she's not familiar with the feel of it. Neither of my children held their bottles...I think I spoiled them too much by doing all the work for them. lol. So hopefully this works. I just worry about her getting dehydrated especially since we go the pool and beach a lot since it's hotter than you know what outside. I'm sure if she's thirsty though she'll drink!!! Wish me luck. :)
Its an attachment thing i think. Give her the bottles to play with dont fill them with anything and when she is thirty ONLY offer her something to drink in a straw cup or sippy cup. She still gets the bottle but they aere now only to play with. DONT GIVE UP OR GIVE IN change is hard and when you give in the child knows that if the resist enough that they will get what they want.
Good Luck
My kids did the same thing. What worked for us was to buy a brand with a removable valve (Playtex and Gerber work this way). I gave it to them one morning with the valve removed. It was a little messy, because the liquid just drips out, but it was almost as if my kids said, "Oh that's what this is! There's milk/juice/water in there!" Once they got the hang of it, I put the valve back in. It only took a couple hours for them to understand.
Definitely get the bottles out of the house! She'll get it. Honest!
Get rid of the bottles! Don't even store them because you will be tempted to go back to them. Soft nipple sippy cup is what worked for us to start with. Offer her beverages in the same sippy cup every time. Eventually she will use it. Be patient when she refuses and don't pressure her into using it. Good Luck
Ok, we never used sippy cups went straight to regular cups ... we put his favorite drink in a dixie cup and only water in the bottle ... took about a week buh bye bottles!
I would try the bottle without the top screwed on. Familiar but still a cup. Only fill it a little and expect spillage. We never used a sippy with DS - it made no sense to me to teach them to disregard gravity and then reteach gravity later. We only ever put milk or water in his cup.
Time to sat "bye-bye" permanently to the bottles...throw them away and don't look back. She still has the option of using them, so she has no incentive to use the sippy cups.
Yes, she may balk and throw fits, but she'll adjust as long as you don't give in. My guy went cold turkey at 13 months with bottles AND pacifiers the same day, his ped had said the day before it was time to stop the bottles, so I had started no bottles that morning and at bedtime couldn't find his "suckie" and refused to go out or send anyone to buy one. He fussed a bit the first night, asked a couple of times over the next couple of days for it, but never the bottles, and within 3 days he was a sippy cup master.
Get the cups that she holds like a bottle, with no handles, I found he liked those best, I think it gave him a "bottle" feel. I also had 3 of the same cups in different designs, one each for milk, water, and juice, and he learned the difference.
Hope this helps : )
Sound to me she's not ready. I know they say to get rid of the bottle around the 1st year so it doesn't ruin their teeth. I say to just give her time. Let her have the bottle. I don't think it's hurting her. Now if she turns two and you haven't gotten her off of it then I think you need to go cold turkey. For my little one she loved her sippy cup. It was a treat for her to use. Just wait a bit and try again.
All three of my kids had a hard time adjusting to the sippy cup at 12 months. They're still babies! I let them all keep the bottles until about 15-16 months. My youngest had the hardest time letting go. I was in no hurry to force the sippy cup on him since he's my baby. He eventually got it, and your daughter will too. I hate those rigid timeframes imposed by doctors. It will not hurt her to have it awhile longer.
Start w/ water first and add ice to the sippy cup. My twins loved to rattle the ice and it worked.
