10 Month Old Will Not Drink a Bottle or Cup

Cups requires a different "sucking" method, versus nursing...it is 2 different techniques. For some babies, this causes confusion. ALSO, maybe your baby still has his tongue-thrusting reflex, and thus, he is not ready to drink from a cup.

Just wait, and keep trying every couple days. He does not sound ready yet.

I like the "MAM" brand baby bottle... it also does not have the plastic BPA"s in it which can leach into our bodies. You can get it at www.amazon.com Just type in the search word "MAM baby bottle"

Just make sure he is getting enough intake. Don't take away nursings for him.

My son had no problem transitioning to this bottle when I was breastfeeding.

Good luck,
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You could also try having someone else offer the bottle when you are away from the house. I had Nana offer my youngest her first bottle while babysitting, and she took to it like a champ.

Have Grandma or Dad or someone give him a bottle or cup with breastmilk in it. Avent makes a cross between a sippy cup andd a bottle and they are pretty good. All three of my babies would not take to the bottle or sippy cup until I left them with someone else for a few hours.

Hi A.,

My 10 month old hasn't been interested in a sippy cup either. I read somewhere that breastfed babies sometimes do better with straws because the sucking used is more like nursing. So I use narrow straws and small cups. (IKEA sells these great narrow straws, and I cut them in half so that they're shorter.) I started by just dribbling a little diluted juice into her mouth using a straw, and then let her suck out whatever was in the straw. Now she will usually use it when I offer it, but recently she discovered the fun of blowing bubbles in her drinks. Sometimes she likes it better if I give her water directly from the cup.

It also sounds like maybe your son just gets impatient with the cups - have you tried taking out the valves? Yes, you may have a mess at first, but it might keep him interested in the cup longer.

Good luck!

I don't know if you've tried this, but you may want to pump some breast milk and try to give it to him in a sippy cup. Probably which ever one he tried to drink from the most. He may just want to stay with something familiar and warm. But I think that if there was just a partial change maybe that may ease him into the idea of a sippy cup. And after he's mastered the sippy cup and no longer asks to nurse, you can start him on warm milk instead of cold. That way it's not an instant change into something unfamiliar. Or even the warm up the formula designed for 12-24 mo toddlers.

I'll be honest, both my boys took to sippy cups right away. But I've had friends with the same situation and that's what they did. I hope that'll give you some ideas :)

I think its a little soon to stop. Do you need to go back to work? If not then wait the year out. Then you do it gradually, at one year they start eating more, before a year they totally depend on the breastmilk for nutrition and have to many risks for allergys with solid food. Wait till 1st birthday then cut down the nursing to early morning, afternoon nap, and bedtime. Two weeks then take away naptime nursing. Do it gradually till your down to just bedtime and major accidents. When you get stuck on the bedtime one by then they can either be put to bed by someone else (dad, gram, brother, sis,) or you can put on a video like barney and say your "going potty" then they will drift off to the T.V. and that will help the final cut off. At ten months I think they are still too baby to stop. I hope this helps I have two children and I did the exact same thing with both and so did my sister with her son and it worked great!

Well, my method may sound harsh but I was desperate. At 9 months, my milk slowed down significantly and my son didn't want to take formula or even my milk in the bottle. He was stubborn. I tried 5 different bottles, 3 different sippy cups, and all the different kinds of formula. ALL of them. (Talk about $$$.) What could I do--I didn't have enough milk. I even had him stay with my in-laws a whole day to see if he'd take while I'm not around, but he screamed at them. Luckily he was already eating baby food and solids so they were able to feed him something. I asked the doctor. He said to not give him anything until he took the milk. If he was really hungry he would take it. I asked someone to watch my
3-year-old daughter because I KNEW there was going to be a lot of crying and he was going to need my undivided attention. I didn't give him my milk all morning and all through lunch until 3:30 in the afternoon. He cried a lot, and took a couple of short naps, and by the time 3:30 rolled around he took it. I was TOTALLY scared and called the doctor because he was so lethargic, but my doctor reassured me that he was fine and would take it eventually. He did drink all 8 oz. of it at 3:30. And I made sure that I gave him nothing else but formula after that. He put a little fight the next feeding, but not too bad. By the next morning, he took it so easily. It was seriously hard to watch him go hungry, but I didn't have any more milk. Try giving it to him when he's hungry and half asleep. Like you, my daughter was sooo much easier. My son is very healthy and big. He's 15 months and weighs 24lbs. now. Good luck. If that doesn't work for you, just wait until he's older and he understands more. Then you can ease into it better.