I have been trying to slowly ween my daughter from a bottle to sippy cups. she will be a year old on march 18th and I orginally wanted her 100% off the bottle by her first birthday...I now see that as kind of unrealistic. I can get her to drink apple juice from the cheap sippy cups every once in awhile but she refuses her formula from one. She has been so easy to ween on everything else...this is just hard for some reason!! has anyone gone through this and have any suggestions? I am willing to take any advice!!! I am not sure if maybe it will be easier to make the trasitition when she is on whole milk!!!!
any advice I appreciate!!! thanks in advance!!
I had the same problem with both of my little girls and as soon as they were on whole milk it was a lot easier for some reason. It actually was totally easy and neither one of them noticed they didn't have a bottle anymore. I think for us it was the formula thing. Good luck.
If she doesn't like sippy cups, you could try to teach her to drink out of a straw. My daughter would only breastfeed for 1 year, not one bottle - it drove me crazy. She didn't like sippy cups either. Finally my mom tried her with a regular straw and she took to it right away.
i too weened my kids from the bottle when they turned 1. if your daughter is used to only formula in her bottle, that will make it much easier for you. i would start introducing her to milk in a sippy cup soon, and only allow her formula in the bottle. for my kids, the hardest bottle to give up was the bedtime bottle. i did allow my daughter to take a sippy cup of water to bed with her once i took away the bottle completely, and that helped ease the transition.
hope that helps :)
M.
Hello!
I had the same goal with our daughter and it did not really work out until she was about 15 months. : )
In retrospect I think that it might have gone better if I had made a distinction between formula in bottle and milk in cup. When she was down to 1-2 bottles/day, eventually I just had to make the bottles disappear over the long Thanksgiving weekend, never to return.
We tried several differnt kinds of sippy cups and it seemed that initially she preferred the Nuby cups with a soft top and she still loves the Avent Naturally Soft Spout cups. Since then we have also added some hard spout cups and she likes them fine.
Good luck with this! I know that I agonized over this much more than necessary, but what can you do? : ) Live and learn.
D.
Hi A.,
This may be extreme for some, but when my daughter turned 1, I hid all her bottles. I would then offer her milk in a sippy cup, and believe me, we tried practically every cup out there, and she loves the Nuby Sippy. She had her tatrum though, she refused to drink for 3 days, and on the forth, grabbed the sippy cup and drank away. She's now 2, and still drinks from her cup occasionally, but we are getting her to drink from a cup now. Hope that helps.
D.
try Nuby no spill sippy cups first. The sippy part is made out of a softer plastic sort of like a bottle nipple.
You can find them at Walmart and they are really no spill and the fact that they dont have additional small pieces that go into the spout is good,less to clean.
Good luck
Hi,
My advice is just a little different from the others. Maybe because I've raised my kids and now I'm helping to raise my grandkids. If it were me, I wouldn't really make this a huge focus. In two weeks, a month she may be less resistent then she is right now and this will be a non-issue. They are only little for such a short time. Let her have her bottle while you try some of the the sippy cups the women reccomended. You don't need these power struggles yet, cuz you will have plenty to come =) Take care hon and try not to sweat the small stuff. Sounds like your a very caring mom, and Bless you for that.
P.S. Happy 1st Birthday to the little one.
D.
