Transitioning from Bottle to Cup - Noblesville,IN

he is only one. Don't force him. We use sippy cups here and also the sippy cups with straws. My daughter is 19 months old now and can use a cup but prefers using straws. Don't make a big deal about this or it will become an issue. Just give him a sippy cup to play with and put some water or water/ juice in it and eventually he'll start taking sips from it. He is only a year!!
What is the big deal?? Also, you can stick him in the bathtub with clean water and see if he will drink the water from a cup in the bathtub, using the clean water from the spout. My daughter has been doing this for ages. It is fun for her and she drinks tons of water this way.

At 12 months what is the rush? Most babies this age still get a lot of comfort from sucking. He will drink from a cup when he's ready (which will be soon I'm sure.) Just keep offering it at every meal :)

When I transitioned my daughter we used a Nuby Sports Straw cup. I mimicks a bottle but is a straw. We then gave her a straw cup and now at 2 she uses a regular cup.

I hope that helps!

Does he drink from a straw? You could try just a cup with a regular straw in it. My son loves that, although it's potentially messier than one of those sippy cup/straw cups, but it might work. If he isn't drinking from the bottle either I would just set out the cup of water pretty much all the time and offer it to him. You didn't say how long this had being going on but I imagine after a few days he'll drink it. Also, you could give him sips of water from a "big" cup that you're drinking from, but you'll also have to monitor that! Good luck...don't you hate it when the second ones are less compliant! ;)

Honestly, I think this is one of those issues you can force.

Like you've read - he'll drink when he's really thirsty.
If he only gets cups, he's going to have to adapt. Period.
Hang in there, he'll come around when he figures out that he's not going to win this battle.

Have you tried the Nuby Sports Sippers? The spouts are long and silicone, similar to a nipple. He might put up less of a fuss? Just a thought?
Otherwise. Cold turkey, just like you have been. He'll get the message.

Relax and back off, maybe. You're annoying him, and now he's constipated on top of being annoyed. That's going too far, I think. Let it go and try again in a month. He may be ready then.

There is nothing wrong with a baby (kids are babies until 24 months) drinking from a bottle. Just make sure that he isn't carrying it around, and that he doesn't get sweet things that will ruin his teeth. Ease into this. I was very happy not to have the kids (raised four) on cups when they were running fevers from cutting teeth, or had their immunizations, as well as on our many long trips in the car. It was a lot easier to get fluid into them, and who needs to worry about constipation? By two years, they were drinking from cups. There is nothing magical about having a baby drink from a cup--Mommy is trained, baby is not. Life is hard enough--tell your Doctor to chill.