Bottles - Troy, MI

Toss out all the bottles! If they aren't around she'll realize she's not going to get one. Make a big deal of putting them in the trash or give them to someone with a new baby and tell her the baby needs them. If you don't think her helping would be a good idea them just tell her they are all gone and put them in the trash. She's going to be upset but she'll get over it. It's not good for her teeth and she can get milk in many other forms them straight milk. If you really want her to do milk maybe put a few drops of chocolate syrup in the sippy, it's not that many calories and as long as you brush her teeth regularly it won't hurt her.

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Hi C.,
I just went through the same thing about a month ago. It is a very tough thing to do. Like you, I also turned to Mamasource. I got great advice and ended up just packing up all of my daughters bottles. She either took the sippy cup or nothing. She was really attached to her bottle for milk only too. She drank from a sippy cup all day long with her juice and water, but wanted milk in the am and pm in her bottle. It only took her 2 days to get it! It was tough for both of us. She cried and whined, but I stuck to my guns and we both made it through. I figured that from what I have heard, a few days of crying is better than the dental problems that a bottle can cause. Good luck to you! I know you can do it!

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my daughter is 17 months. She still gets a morning and bedtime bottle. The dr said she needs 16 oz of milk a day. She gets most of her milk in the 2 bottles. she does drink milk and water in a sippy cup. - Just be patient. try to eliminate the daytime milk bottles. we got rid of daytime bottles at about 15 or 16 months. I would be careful about juice in a cup -- the current recommendation is 4 oz of juice or less a day. It really is not a great food for babies.

Try different sippy cups maybe she would like a different brand. She will start drinking milk from a sippy cup when she is ready.

I the same problem, except my daughter really wants her ba-ba at night, our cuddle time. She is so scheduled (totally on her own) that she will take her bath, ask for the bottle and then give everyone a kiss goodnight and ask to go to bed. I asked the doctor about it and he said it was better for her to get the milk, not to worry about the fact that she has a bottle since she is not drinking it in her bed. Of course she is on the small side and we need her to get as much 'good stuff' as we can get into her. I am wondering how I am going to break this tie also, but not too worried about it at this point, she only gets it at bed time - she is 19 months old.

my son had a hard time to. The doctors made us take him off before he turned 15 months. We started by replacing one bottle at a time the morning and night bottle were the last to go. I also bought sippy cups with a soft tip that seems to make all the difference. Once he got use to those we switched to the harder ones it did take a while. A few months to real get him use to the cups. He is 16 months now and doing great no set backs!

C.
I used to give less and less milk in the bottle and kept introducing it in the cup! She will understand sooon enuf.
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Go with what you feel. If she only wants it before bed I wouldn't take that away from her until she is ready. Babies grow so fast..why rush it. My daughter just turned 3 and she finally has not asked for a "baba" anymore. I offered her sippy cups and regular cups instead of "taking her off the bottle" I would still give her a bottle when she asked for one, but eventually she wuld ask for a sippy or cup.. She still loved a warm bottle at night, but bought her a sippy cup that almost looks like a nippple top, but it is slightly different and she would take warm milk in that at night. Go with what you feel is right. Mom knows best!!! :)

When we transitioned from the bottle to sippy cup, our pediatrician gave us an easy trick! He recommended filling the bottle with water, and the sippy cup with milk. Offer the baby the sippy cup first - if they refuse it, then offer them the bottle with water. Chances are, your baby will want the milk more than the bottle and will switch herself! When we offered our son the bottle with water he drank a little, then looked at the sippy cup - tried that and got the flavor he liked. Then, he took a couple more pulls from the bottle for the sucking action. He repeated this back and forth a few times, and then was content with the sippy cup. Remember NOT to put anything but water in the bottle from now on! Good luck.

My ped said as long as she's getting dairy in other forms (cheese, yogurt, etc) we can give up milk in a bottle (we never gave her milk in a bottle though, just formula). So we gave up the bottle and offered milk in a sippy only.

There were a few milk free days, but she got over it really quickly and now happily guzzles milk out of cups.

i DON'T THINK KIDS DON'T THINGS UNTILL THEY'RE READY!bECAUSE MY DUGHTER cHRYSTINA IS ALSO 15 MONTHS OLD AND SHE WN'T DRINK OUT OF A SIPPY CUP EITHER! sHE WOULD WHEN SHE WAS ONE YEARS OLD FOR SOME ODD REASON, BUT NOW SHE WONT! wE SPENT THE DAY OUTSIDE ONE TIME SO i MADE HER A SIPPY CUP OF JUICE AND WHEN i FIGURED SHE WAS THIRSTY i OFFERED IT TO HER AND SHE DIDN'T wANT IT! sO i KEPT TRYING TO GIVE IT TO HER AND SHE WOULDNT TAKE A DRINK FOR LIKE 4 OR MAYBE 5 HOURS AND BY THEN i THINK SHE WAS REALLY THIRSTY AND SHE ONLY DRANK A LITTLE BIT OF IT!

My son is goin to be a year old tomorrow whoo whoo happy birthday andrew. Anyways i found that he likes the playtex baby einstein ones. Kinda of expensive (4.94 for one) but they work. They have handles so they can grab a hold of them better like they do the bottle. Other sippy cups seem to slip out of his hands. I also had a problem with him not wanting milk out of the sippy cup but i noticed that he didn't like cold things right out of the fridge. Not even juice. He didn't get his bottles warmed up when he was drinking formula. The water would be room temp. I have to warm what ever liquid i give him wether juice water or milk. He has also decided that the sippy cup wouldn't work for bedtime so he cut that one out on his own. lol Just keep up on it and it will work out. Good Luck

C., I had the same problem as well-- "with the second child in my case." I use to stess about it, but found that would do no good. my daughter is 2 and she just got off the bottle a few weeks ago. what worked for me was not stressing about it and letting it happen nautrally. I liked the advent sippy cups at night, she adapted to them well. My advice is," forget what they say about being off the bottle at 1 --she is still a little baby. why rush these things, they grow-up so fast. besides when is the last time you seen an adult on a bottle? goodluck, L.

I just went trough this with my 15 month old. If I put milk in a sippy he would toss it back into the kitchen and stand there and scream until I got a milk bottle.

I went through a week of only allowing bottle first thing in the morning, last thing at night. Then I went through about 4 days of cranky baby and offered no bottle just the cup. My son was breast fed and now only takes milk about 4-5 ounces at a time, so he had 5-6 servings a day. The bottles are now out of the kitchen. (i just kept feeding him snacks to keep him full, and kept a sippy with ice water in it at all times). Good luck.