Sippy Cup - Salt Lake City, UT

Offer milk & juice in the sippy cup and only water in the bottle. If it's milk she wants, she'll learn real quick that it simply isn't availble from the bottle anymore. If it's the sucking action she needs, she may begin to rely on her pacifier or thumb (whichever she prefers) while she makes this transition.

With my kids, I explain all changes before making them. Even though they might not entirely understand, they do tend to be more cooperative when I remind them that this particular change was coming. It's especially effective if I tell them that the doctor said so :)

Start by giving her milk to her warm but each day make it a smaller amount you are warming up and add cold to it. If it's a gradual process she probably won't notice it. The sippy cup thing has to be a little more right now. I would make a big deal out of it like a little mini going away party for all her bottles. Tell her that there are lots of babies in the world that need bottles and it's time to share them with all the babies in the world because she's a big girl now and doesn't need the bottles. Take her shopping and let her pick out a couple of cups. Try ones with the straw top too!

I had the same problem with my daughter. Unfortunately, she stopped drinking milk altogether when we weaned her off of the bottle and to this day refuses to drink it. From what her doctor said it is not uncommon and does not mean that she will be unhealthy without milk in her diet. If it turns out that your daughter will not drink milk from the sippy cup there are alternative ways of getting her the calcium she needs. He doctor recommended yogurt, cheese, Danimals, Pediasure, orange juice and multi vitamins.

A few things that I tried to get her to drink milk that might work for you are:
- Put chocolate or strawberry syrup in the milk to cover the flavor.
- Give her milk in a plastic "big girl" cup when she is in her highchair. My daughter loved this and it got her to drink milk a few times.
- Put milk in a bowl and let her drink it with a straw.
- I also tried every flavor of soy and rice available but my daughter did not drink them but yours might.

Good luck!

I had the same problem. My daughter would not drink milk out of a sippy cup, but water was fine. I actually stopped trying and made sure that she gets the calcium she needed from cheese and yogurt. One day I gave her a straw and some milk, don't ask me why I did it. I just tried it and she drank all the milk from the straw. So we bought her straw sippies and she drank milk from then on. And only from the straw sippies she will drink milk, and she is still that way at 2 years old. I don't know if this will help but this is how I got her to drink milk from a sippy.

I had the same problem with my daughter. Someone told me that if I refused to give her anything but the sippy cup, it would work. I was at wit's end, so I tried it. My daughter threw a big fit, but eventually she got to the point where she wanted anything to eat or drink. It sounds mean, but your child has to learn that her favorites aren't an option in order to take herself out of her comfort zone.

This may sound cruel, but it worked for us. Put away the bottles completely so they aren't even an option. Then only offer cold milk in the sippy cup. It took my son a week to finally accept the fact that this was his only option. It was a very long, hard week with lots of whining and crying, but we survived. Eventually, he got thirsty enough to just take it. If you try this route, make sure you tell her in advance. "Next week, we're putting away your bottles." "Tomorrow we're putting away your bottles." Make sure she realizes that you're doing it because she's a big girl. I've heard that the Nubby brand sippy cups have a spout that's similiar to a bottle nipple, so you may try that, too.
Good luck!

My daughter is the exact same way! I finally had to give in and give her chocolate milk (which she WILL drink in a cup, cold) that way she gets her calcium. I didn't call it chocolate milk (since she was focused on the word "milk") but a chocolate drink. I cut down her bottle's to two a day, one for each bedtime. She really needs the comfort (I was the same way as a child) so I haven't cut out the bottle completely. She is now almost 4, but doesn't ask for her bottle as much, and at nightime, I tell her that she can't have one before bed or else she'll wake up in the middle of the night and need to go to the bathroom.

Anyway, I know your daughter will eventually grow out of needing one, but in the meantime, try some "chocolate drink", her pediatrician said chocolate milk is just as good for her.

My only suggestion is to simply not allow her to have a bottle... I know it will be difficult for a week or two on you mainly, but if you only give her a sippy, she has no choice but to drink from a sippy if she wants milk. I got lucky with my daughter, my mom had her for a weekend and when she came home, the sippy came up missing so my daughter just started to take the sippy because I told her the "baba" was all gone. My daughter is 15 months old and also only drinks warm milk... in time I guess she will grow out of it, but I just look at it as she's still my "baby" in the meantime. GOOD LUCK!!

M.,

Have you tried a sippy with the nipple like texture. It is formed like a sippy cup but has the soft nipple texture. That is what I did with my daughter. She was off a bottle at the age of 9 months old. You can find them at Wal-Mart. It took my daughter some time before I could give cold milk. That one was hard for me to break. Maybe try to have her watch you drink the same cold milk out of your own cup. Children love to be like there parents maybe this will work for the two of you.

Eva

I just went through that myself. My doctor suggested this: First thing in the morning offer a sippy cup with milk in it. Don't offer any else. After an hour then you can give her, her bottle. At before and after nap times we offered him a sippy cup too. Before we knew it (with in a couple of days) we didn't have to offer him a bottle. He mainly would drink from the sippy cup when we were not in the room. He would throw his fits and scream/cry, when we left the room and peaked in, he would be drinking from it. Don't give her the attention when she trows the fits.
As far as warm to cold milk, start gradually not warming it as much.
Hope this helps, I thought we were never going to get our guy off the bottle.

I switched from bottle to sippy cup at about 1 year and I did it cold turkey. If you keep offering the bottle everytime he doesn't want the sippy he will continue to do this. Not having milk is not going to hurt him for a few days. Just throw out all the bottles having him help you do this will also help.