I just posted a question in regards to my two children that are 11 months apart but I have another question.
I have a daughter that turned 1 on Feb 26th. She just wont drink from a sippy cup. She dumps it out and the ones that are spill proof she wont suck on hard enough to get milk. Like I was saying I do have a 4 and 5 year old, but never had any issues with this. She also wakes up 2times a night for the bottle. What in the world shoud I do. Im tired of not sleeping and waking up all hours of the night.
Thanks so much!
I have three kids. My youngest is 14 months and is doing exactly the same thing. My others didn't. I asked the pediatritian and she said he was still young. She said to keep giving him the sippy cup and he will eventually get it. We have the kind with the silicone top, so he is biting instead of sucking it.
There is sippy trainer by Gerber that is with the bottles. It's kind of a cross between a bottle nipple and a sippy spout. It runs about $6. When my oldest was about the same age I started putting a water bottle in bed (she was breastfed and slept by me). I needed my sleep so i just started putting that in her mouth and eventually the water just wasn't worth waking up for. With water, you don't have to worry about it going bad or rotting teeth. Good luck!
wal-mart has a good selection of both soft tip and hard plastic sippy cups. we started our now 2yo on the soft ones, and that helped her. we also put her to bed with a sippy cup of water. you might try giving her a bottle of just plain water or water with a very small amount of juice in it. that helped ours when she didn't want to sleep at night.
We started off with a sippy cup but it has a straw instead of the typical sippy cups and it worked very well. She might be more receptive to that and it seems easier to use. I think they are made by Munchkin (but it is at babies R us.
Consider the straw form sippies and see if she likes those. As far as night time, it depends on your sleep program preferences. At her age, there is no reason at all for her to be waking up at all. We did CIO with both of our kids when they were babies and it worked fantastic ... within days they were sleeping through the night and they continue to be good sleepers.
Good luck!
J.-
My almost 2 yo is pretty small for his age. At 15 mos he was having some of the same issues with sippy cups. My pediatrician had me go to development specialist who showed me how to work with him on different kinds of cups. The cup that worked the best at first was a mini-bottle in which a short straw could be placed. My son did amazing with the straw! After he was good with that, they had me try the sippy cups where the liquid kind of leaks out when you tip it up so you don't have to suck as much. Yes, he did figure out that if he shook it upside down he could get it to spill. But he got good at that too. After three months he was into the regular sippy cups. What they had me use for the short bottle was a salon-type bottle that you put hair color in and cut off the tip of the pointy part. Then you put about 3 or 4 inches of fish tank air tubing as the straw. It worked awesome! Hope this helps!
J.
I would go to the store and buy a few different kinds of sippys and try them. the ones that look and feel more like a bottle seem to work good. the silcone tips and handles are wonderful. does she have a bedtime? my son is 13 months, he takes a sippy all day except at nap and bedtime, then he gets a bottle. I found sometimes I have to let him wear himself down. how many naps does she take a day? my son only takes 1 nap and is fed, bathed and in bed by 730. let her cry it out, and let her keep the bottle at night and naps. i know it sounds a little mean,but once you find a sippy she'll take, don't give her her bottle during the day. eventually, she'll take all her fluid with the cup instead of teh bottle. best of luck
Sippy cups are not at all a necessity, they are a fairly recent invention. They didn't exist when I and my siblings were growing up. Now they seem to be just an added source of frustration.
My daughter never wouldn't suck hard enough either, unless we took the valve out, so we just went with a regular cup at 14 months. All the kids at her daycare by 16 months were drinking out of regular cups (no covers even). We used the ones with the cover / spout sometimes, but no valve. She drank from a bottle at nap and bedtime, and a regular cup at mealtimes.
It's not unusual for her to want a bottle at night, either (I know some will argue that babies don't need to eat all night at some predetermined age, but I'm a believer that all babies are not the same, and don't run on a set schedule.) You are likely to be close to the end of the night feedings without taking any action.
My son never got the hang of the sippy cups that have to be sucked really hard (but he never did take a bottle much either). He started using a straw right around 1 year and that seemed to work really well. They make "spillproof" cups with flexible silicone straws, so we used those instead of the traditional sippys.
