How Do I Get My Son to Drink Milk from a Sippy Cup??

My daughter is really good at drinking from a cup but she will not, so far, drink her milk or formula from it. She is mainly bf but does get formula now that my supply is decreasing. I gave her milk in the cup and she threw it on the floor. Keep trying, that is what I will do. One dy the magic will happen, I hope soon. :)

have you tried different sippy cups. two good transition from bottle cups that ive found were the nuby sippy cups and the avent magic cups. they have soft tops and seem to help the transition from the bottle. good luck.

K.,

I agree with the other prior posts. We used the Nuby soft topped "sippy cups". It's kind of between a sippy and "nipple" bottle. This worked until we did move to open cups.

The only reason we didn't go RIGHT to open cups is simply the mess.

I've heard other people who used the straw cups with success too. They have "disposable" ones - I think Playtex sells them, at Wal-Mart or the grocery store. they are primary colors and small, inexpensive cups. CostCo also sells the soft-straw sippys in sets of 4.

A final word of advice, if you are set on getting rid of the bottle, especially before bed, beware of a fight. You may have it established as a "habit" now. He may expect that to fall asleep before bed. Also, our dentist warned against this since the milk sits on their baby teeth all night. Maybe water before bed or make sure to brush his little teeth.

Stick with it. If you "give all the bottles away", then only offer milk in the sippy. When he wants it bad enough, he'll take it. (If he sees the bottles, he'll want them. Don't be fooled, he probably knows what cabinet or drawer you keep them in.)

Good luck.

My son absolutely refused to drink milk from a sippy cup. He would drink water, but not milk. I finally gave him a cup with a straw and he did really well. Then, I took the straw away and just let him drink out of a normal plastic cup. At 18 months, they don't need the bottle anymore. In fact, my doctor said that this is the absolute oldest that children should have bottles. They don't need the nutrition before they go to bed, they just like it. Good luck!

My son was breastfed and wouldn't drink from a cup at all. At 18 months i wanted to daytime wean him. (wouldn't drink juice, water, milk...) i got 2 nuby cups with the silicone spouts. I only put in chocolate rice, soy, or almond milk. This was such a treat that he had no problems drinking it from a cup even tho he did not drink much. After a few weeks he would drink water and juice and had upped his ounces for the day. I swapped his rice milk for cows milk with a little nesquik. By 19 months he would drink regular milk. We weaned completely at 21 months and i have to say it was pretty easy. Maybe try some other milk besides cows, i did find the others to be much easier for a switch. Good luck!

Either get rid of your bottles altogether or only offer him water in his bottle and milk in the sippy cup. Good luck :)

Is there a reason that you need to transition now? Has someone told you that you need to switch? The bottle is very comforting. With you returning to work, he might like having the bottle as a comfort item.

You could transition by giving him the cup during the day and the bottle at night. Or do something like he has the cup with his food and the bottle before he sleeps (nap and bedtime). I did that and it worked well, but my guy was a little older when I did it. He was around 2.

When we wanted to get rid of bottles with our first daughter we packed up the bottles in a bag and put them out for the bottle fairy to take to other babies who needed them and then took her to the store and had her pick out her own sippy cups. She was happy with this.

Our second daughter had trouble with the suction on sippy cups and got a double ear infection, so we had to get her low suction ones (Born Free has some).

Good luck! They sure can be picky!