Taking 16 Month Old off the Bottle -- Wont Take Milk from Sippy Cup.

Just start taking it down a bottle or two each day, and then when a few days have gone by, start taking down a bottle more, and progressively wean her off of it.

It will get easier, more than 4 days, and sometimes more than 3 different kinds of sippys. It took my son to try around 5 sippys before we found one that he really liked. We use the Playtex ones that are colorful.

Start by taking away the car bottle or the nap time bottle, those will be easier to take away and replace with a sippy. Just keep handing it to her frequently through the day so that she gets used to holding it, and hopefully starts to drink from it more and more.

Then start by taking lastly the nighttime bottle, after she is more used to the sippy through out the day and then by then she might be more willing to use the sippy rather than a bottle.

It takes time, and a lot of patience. Just be consistent and she will learn to accept it.

Good luck!

My son was off the bottle accept for before bed and we couldn't break him of that one until he was 18m+. I tried, but had the same issues you did. Then suddenly he got it...he was just old enough to understand and I said you can't have a bottle, but a sippy instead and he was fine with it.

Sometimes waiting is better because there level of understanding is better and they 'get it' and understand you aren't trying to keep them from the milk just the vessel. :)

I always wonder what the rush is to get rid of the b ottle. Would you like
someone to take away your morning coffee or something you really really
enjoy. She is only 16 months. I say let her have it. If it is only in the
car, naptime and bedtime, why make everyone miserable. Life is too short
for this. She is only a baby once. Let her be happy.

I would go slowly. Get rid of the nap time bottle first, since that is going ok. My kids were breast fed, so I don't have a lot of advice there. But with weaning from breast feedings they say to drop one feeding at a time, I'm sure that works for bottles too.

As for the milk, only one of my kids ever took milk in a sippy cup. Will she take it in a straw cup, because that's a good alternative. They just ate a lot of cheese, yogurt and calcium fortified orange juice. Now they are much older (6, 11 &13) and drink a lot of milk. Just keep offering it and she'll eventually drink it. Kind of like introducing a new food, keep offering and eventually they'll eat it (unless it's my 6 yr old and eggs.)

Bottles and breasts are never *just* about the milk. It's also about the comfort. It sounds like your daughter's not ready to give up the comfort of the bottle. I would wait a while and try again, weaning her slowly as others have suggested.