My son just turned 1 yr old October 8th and I have been trying to get him to use his sippy cup for about 3 months. He will take it once or twice and just take a couple of sips and cries for his bottle or for me to breastfeed him. I have tried different kinds of sippy cups and he refuses them all.
Currently he is being cared for by my mother n law, while I prepare to open a Family Child Care out of my home and work full time. She says she is trying the cup too, but when I pick him up the sippy cup looks just as full as the morning I made it and the bottles are empty. I am hoping that once I am with him when I start the child care that he will take the cup if it is continuously offered to him first.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
He got it! He loves his sippy cup now. All it took was a couple of days at home with him (not giving him the bottle of course) Thank all of you for your support.
Hang in there. try putting something other than milk... juice, water... something he doesn't get through a bottle. my daughter, now 2.5, didn't take to the sippy cup right away. it took several months!
Keep offering it to him, he'll get it soon enough.
Have you tried the nubby cups. they are more bottle like than the other.
Dana,
Don't let him play you,lol ! It's not that he can't get the hang of it, he doesn't want to use the sippy because the bottle is his security blanket sort of speak. I would suggest you take away a bottle at a time and offer the sippy cup instead. He'll eventually get it, that it's the sippy cup or nothing. Believe me, I know it sounds a little harsh , but ,when he gets thirty enough, he'll be more apt to try it,and it won't hurt him to go without a few times. You just have to make up your mind you'll practice patience while he pitches a few fits. The other thing is : don't let the bedtime bottle be the last to go, it's usually the hardest to break away from and does the most damage to their teeth. If you can break away from that bottle you can do anything ! LOL GOOD LUCK and don't give in, he 's counting on it ! C. S.
have you tried skipping the sippy cup? My daughter at one didnt like sippy cups or bottles anymore and went straight to a reguular cup...the only thing that is a problem is dont put aalot in and make sure you are there all the time so they dont drink too fast,,,good luck
My older son was exclusively breastfed, and therfore when it was time to switch to a sippy cup had NO clue how to use one. He was probably 2 by the time he figured it out. So, we just used straw cups instead. It worked for us. Good luck!
We used plaxtex drop in bottles with my son so he never had to tip up his bottle for the milk to get into the nipple he just had to suck and suction did the rest therefore he he never could figure out you had to tip the sippy cup to make it work so we bought the playtex sippy cups with staws and he loved it. Also try letting have his morning bottle of milk in his sippy cup, and let him see you pour it from the bottle into the sippy cup, but the rest of the day the only thing in the cup is juice or water. And remember that bottle has been his friend for a whole year it's going to take a while to adjust to a new friend. Good Luck
He probably just needs more time. Keep it where he can get to it and he might go for it on his own. The more we try to hand them things and get them to do things, the more they resist. Also, I agree with the suggestion about the valve-less cups. My son would not use one with a valve until he was 15 months old. I started him on the cups with the silicon spout (they have TONS of them at Walmart). After he figure out that you could turn them upside down and smoosh it into the table for the water to leak out, I went to the disposable cups. When he was completely comfortable with that, we went to the insulated valve cups! The only problem with disposables is that if they throw them around enough, the tops can come off. Take a silicone sippy cup and leave it out for him where he can see and reach it, see what happens. My son is still weirded out by the straw, so that is what we are working on next!
Dear D.,
I do not understand the urgency to get your son off of the bottle? I read a book that stated they need a lot of protein because of growth and they cannot eat the amount of food that they would need to get the protein. This book stated that they should be on a bottle until the age of three. The book is called Let's Have Healthy Children, by Adelle Davis. Now how long you have him on a bottle is up to you. Just remember that their requirements for protein are high and food alone will not provide the amounts they need.
The only time you need to worry about a bottle is when sleeping. Do not allow them to fall asleep with milk in their mouths because the milk will rot the teeth.
D.
My daughter didn't want to take the sippy at 1 yr old even though I had been tring for months for her to use it. She liked to just take a few sips and she was done. She's slowly been using it more and loves it now. I think she just needed time to adjust to it. Give him time and hopefully he makes the transition between the two! Good Luck!
When I was a baby, I was a bottle baby. Kept the bottle for the longest probably til a little after two, ruined my adult teeth. Wasnt my mothers fault she thought it just wasnt time yet. Cause I threw a fit when trying to take it from me. Usually children that are breast babies are easier to sippy cup. Some of them dont even like bottles. But, he does. So I would suggest to you, to stop breast feeding first. Only give him the bottle then when you do not breast feed anymore. They have nuby sippy cups that are like nipples on the top. Switch to that. It looks like a sippy but, the top is like a bottle. This will help him convert. Before long he will like the sippy. My daughter was hard cause she always drank slower then the bottle and sippy. So When she was tiny I had to use the slow nipples from the hospital. Nothing from the store would work. So when switching to the sippy the nuby cups worked from me. Walmart carries them.
have you tried the sippy cups with a straw?my daughter who is 11 months was a having a little trouble with the sippy cups too.she does really well with a straw.Wal-mart has these ones by Nuby that have an oval shaped straw,with a sort of valve design built in.it makes it so it doesn't spill and it's nice because the valve keeps the suction up so the juice stay in the straw(like when you put your finger over the top of a straw and the drink will stay in even when you remove the straw)that way they don't have to suck the juice all the way up the length of the straw everytime.also straws are better because their teeth have even less contact with the fluid.Hope this helps!~S.~
Have you tried the kind without the valve? If he's used to a faster-flow bottle or breast, he isn't used to having to suck as hard as he'd have to with one of the spill-proof valves. The cheap "disposable" kind are a lot easier to suck from. Or you could try a straw cup. There are some that have a spill-proof lid when the straw is pulled out.
