Does anyone have advice on how to transition from a bottle to sippy? My daughter has no problem drinking water from a sippy but when I tried to give her milk in it she started screaming and crying...I had no idea she was so attached to the bottle.
Does anyone have tips bon how to make the transition?
Thanks everyone. She does seems to at least try the milk at daycare but is still refusing at home. I'll keep working on it.
Milk, juice, water in a sippy only. Formula only in a bottle. Throw away the bottles after formual. No formual...no bottles. Screaming will stop and she will be thirsty, give her a sippy.
Hi T.,
I'd say start offering the sippy more than the bottle. Say if you offer the bottle 6 times a day, then for a while, offer it 5. You can offer milk, say in the middle of the day in the sippy and if she doesn't want it in the cup, leave it within her reach. If she wants milk, that's how she'll get it for that one time. Once she gets adjusted to that, then change another time from bottle to sippy. I did that with my son and the last one to switch was the one right before bed. But I don't think you want to only offer water from the cup. She needs to know that all kinds of liquids can be in the cup - milk, juice, water, whatever else you offer. Good luck :o)
i had the same issue. the only thing that finally worked is i got her the nuby with the soft spout. got it from babies r us. around $7 for 2 bottles.
my son was the exact same way! I had no idea he was so attached either! Here is what worked for us. Nuby sells a "sports bottle" that is very similar to a regular bottle. So I started with that at lunchtime (since he seemed to be most attached to his morning and evening bottle). Once he started accepting that at lunchtime, I gave it to him for morning and evening bottles too, which he was okay with. I then transitioned him to the NUBY sippy cup (b/c it was most similar to the sports bottle) and then to a regular sippy cup! This all happened over the course of 3 days, so not as crazy as it sounds! I also eliminated his bedtime bottle, so that he only had milk with his meals, as recommended by his doctors. I think that was a good idea as I've heard stories about people having difficulty getting rid of that night bottle and it's not good for their teeth. Good luck :)
Hi! My son started freaking out a couple of months ago when I tried the cup also. He was young enough-15 months- that I just waited a couple months and tried again. I expected the same reaction but he was ok with it this second time. The other advice I had gotten off here is to start with the morning one and that seemed to help. We are bottlw free now...Good luck!
My only suggestion it to try using a bottle like sippy cup. We used the sports like sippy cup by Nubby. It is a similar feel to the nipple. My son is 2 and we just got him off the bottle using this niew cup. Good luck.
Soft Nuby did the trick too, it is soo much like a bottle nipple!
hey Tracey, I believe tha Nuby brand sippy cups sell a transitioning system. My friend had trouble with her son and she got a bottle style sippy. it was in the shape of a bottle but had handles like a sippy. I know that there are sippys that have different kinds of nipples on them. My daughter who started on a sippy at 6 months loves the Nubby with a silicone soft nipple on it, the best part is they are only around $1.97 at walmart! I would recomend using chocolate milk unless you would like her to always have chocolate milk everytime you give her milk. I would just try to buy an assortment of different cups and find which she likes best. Hope this helps! and good luck!
When I transitioned her, I used the nuby cups too. But also, give the milk with a meal in a cup. If I fed her a cup of milk as it's own meal (Basically still being bottle fed in a different cup), she wouldn't take it. But I offered her two sippy cups with every meal. One water and one milk. She was willing to drink the milk that way, but not if I was holding her and simulating bottle feeding time without the bottle. It did take a while though. she didn't drink the milk from the sippy cup right away... but it was fairly smooth.
Try make it into choclate milk also don't give it to her to cold if you were always warmig up the milk they get use to it. Just so you know there all like that with the bottle and sippy cup
My son wouldn't hold his own bottle, so at 1 year I threw them out and bought the cups with the straws-The playtex insulator sport seems to be the best one I could find, they were the easiest to clean and don't leak. extra straws can be purchased at teebop.com! He took to them immediately and come to find out, the straw cups are better for their development than a regular sippy cup. He is 4 and i pull them out once in a while when we go on long car rides.
I had the same problem with my son. He'd drink anything but milk from a sippy cup...for me. He goes to daycare for 2 half days per week and he was drinking a little milk from a sippy cup for them, but never for me. So, I started limiting his bottles to one in the morning and one at night. Then I found some cups w/ the silicon straws (the ones I used were Baby Enstine) and he started drinking out of those some during the day. Eventually, I got rid of the morning bottle and replaced it with the straw cup even though he didn't drink it all. I supplemented his lack of milk with yogurt. And eventually he started drinking all his milk from the straw cup and I replaced his nightly bottle with a yogurt. Now he drinks milk from anything. I'd say it was about a 2-3 month process, but it seemed to work.
Good Luck - J.
Depends on the age of your child. I am in the minority in that I never thought a bottle was such a bad thing.
If your child is 2 or older just get rid of them. I
never really thought about "transitioning". When a
bottle was not available, they just drank out of a regular cup. To me a sippee cup and bottle are the same . Most cups now they have to suck, so I am not
why the big push to get rid of bottles at an early age.
I don't know how old your daughter is, but I kept it pretty simple with both of my babies. Only formula ever went in the bottle, so when we were done with formula at 11 or 12m, we were done with bottles. Neither of them cared at all because they were used to drinking everything else from a cup. (I gave them cups at 6m.) I use sippy cups that the spill-proof piece can be removed from, so that they're not sucking on the cup like it's a bottle; they're sipping. Of course, they can spill if dropped, but they're only spilling out 3 little holes, it's not like it's an open cup spilling.
If your daughter is older, she may have had more time to become attached to the bottle. You could make a slow transition and take the bottle away 1 feeding at a time or you could just put them away. Keep them out of sight and see what happens. If she's 2, that's probably what I would do.
Good luck.
