My DD is 18 mos old now. She drinks water and juice out of her sippy cup on her own perfectly well. But she doesn't like to drink milk from the sippy cup, and still uses her bottle. I've been wanting to train her to drink milk out of her cup, from the last 2-3 months.
My problem is, If I try to hold her cup and make her drink, she fights to grab it from me. If I let her drink on her own, she loves to pour it all over her head and play. Or, she tips it all over her face, nose, and then comes up for air with a gasp. I've tried giving her just a small mouthful drink at a time, but she ends up playing with it, pouring it on the floor, or over herself.
I guess she knows the technique, but wants to play with it.
How do I win this battle?
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Jo W. - sorry, when I mentioned cup with 2 handles, I meant that I'd bought it for her a while ago. But I've tried a handle-less plastic cup, paper cup. Her grasp is fine with all of them, so is her playfulness!
Thanks for the responses mamas..
I gave her a break for 2 weeks, and then offered her water in a cup again. This time, she didn't try to grab it, just put her hand along with mine, and took gentle sips. We're doing this twice everyday.
Hopefully, we'll get there soon!
Try the NUK cups. They have a small silicon spout...my 10 month old was protesting sippy cups for months until I tried these. He took it on the first try and I immediately packed up the bottles and stored them in the basement. Bu bye!
Give her a sip at a time in a small cup. If she spills it accidentally refill it, if she spills it deliberately, drink time is over.
DS liked putting his hands in my hot tea. After repeatedly telling him no, I decided to let him "learn from his mistakes." He now points from a safe distance and says "no, HOT."
She'll clean up her style real soon.
Good luck to you and yours,
F. B.
have yu tried the cups with the silicon drinking spout-they're soft and nice-maybe she would think it was more like a bottle-they also don't spill out as fast. To get my Grandson to dring milk from a cup, my daughter had to put a little organic fruit juice in it and call it a smoothie! Otherwise, he would not drink milk!
I have never understood why people think those cups with two handles are a good idea. They look like sippy cups, they beg to be played with. Use a real cup, a small cup. Think about the death grip a kid can have on your arm, they can hold cups without handles. The handle jiggles, the drink spills, play time!! Grasping a cup like an adult that doesn't happen.
So far as the bottle goes just stop giving it to her, if she wants milk she will drink it from where you offer it.
Oh god, read your what happened, just drop her off here, she will fit right in.
All my grandkids took their bottles until they were at least 2 years old. Their teeth were fine and they don't have buck teeth. If she wants a bottle there is no logical reason to stop. The only thing that you need to make sure she is not doing is sleeping with the bottle dripping milk on her teeth all night.
The saliva rinses her mouth out after she drinks. Then she is fine. IF the bottle is dripping milk all night then it does not rinse.
Milk is milk is milk. No matter what it comes out of to get in the mouth. If it's a bottle or cup, the milk is STILL going in the mouth. That is why I did not worry about the bottles.
practice in the tub with water maybe
