sippy cup for milk in the new year?

[*Becky*]

Hi,
Henry will be 14 months at the end of December. We made the transition to cows milk easily just after his first birthday and I am thinking of going for a sippy cup for milk in the am. Just wondered how others did this.
At the moment it is actually a lovely part of our day as we have a cuddle on the sofa and he has his bottle when he gets up but I am guessing with a sippy it may be a bit different. What do you do if they are not interested? He has 8oz at the moment and I am not sure how I will get that much into a cup (!)
Any experiences to share would be great....thanks   becky x

[MasynSpencerElliotte]

Depends on the type of cup how much you can get into it...ours are the playtex starter cups with 2 handles and hold 7oz, 8 if you fill right to the top, but then it usually spills out as you try to get the lid on! I had also used Nuby soft spout ones when we first switched...they held 8 oz easily. I switched both my kids cold turkey onto sippy cups at around 5 -6 months of age, so not sure how to go about it with a toddler! Oh, and when we started with Spencer she still wanted a snuggle with her cup and me holding it for her (until she was almost 11 months old) so he might still want to do that.

HTH

[mokey_cat]

We are also in the process of transitioning to a sippy cup as since my LO was ill a few weeks back, she went off milk from a bottle.  We started just giving her a cup of cows milk once she was up and gave breakfast earlier and letting her drink her milk with breakfast.  So far the most she has taken is 3.5 oz  .  So we basically dropped the am bottle and now give milk with breakfast and dinner instead.  Im keeping the pm bottle though as that is cuddle time and a chance to get her to drink plenty of milk (shes fine with a bottle now she is not ill).

So Im going to follow along to get some ideas too 

Laura
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[*Becky*]

thanks
yes I am def sticking to bedtime bottle for a bit but ready for the am to go. So...maybe half when he wakes and half at b/fast???

[scucci1979]

Following along. i can't get my lo to take any milk from a sippy cup.

[mokey_cat]

Sabs - I really struggle too.  I hear everyone else saying their LOs take 7oz from the sippy but DD only takes a few sips then points to her water  .  Im not too bothered at the moment as she I can get lots of milk in her food and her last bottle is OK but I wish she could take more so I didnt need to worry!! One day she had 3.5 oz over an hour and I thought maybe she was getting used to it but its been about a week now and still only sips!!  I dont know whether to go back to 2 bottles again to get her to take more milk now that she is over her chest infection.

[scucci1979]

I wish I knew the answer.  Hopefully, someone will respond.  The only thing I can think of is trying a different sippy cup so she can distinguish one is for milk and one if water. HUGS

[grace annes mommy]

We are still transitioning to the sippy   

DD still gets milk 3x a day. One in the am, one after nap, one before bed. We've transitioned all but the bedtime one, and I plan to transition that one soon, after the holidays.

It has been a slow process for us!

One thing I've found is it helps to "serve" her the sippy just like I did the bottle.  Warmed, and all snug on my lap. I found she just wanted to eat real food in the high chair, so it didn't work to try and give it to her there! I tried to think of ways to make it exactly the same as it was for the bottle, with the only difference being it was in a sippy cup.

[Critter]

Following this thread, too.  Clay turned a year old last week and only takes two bottles of formula a day.  Pedi said it's time to switch to cow's. 

Clay has successfully been drinking a few sips of water out of a sippy cup, and it took us a few kinds until we found one he liked.  Yesterday I put some milk in it and he immediately spit it out.  Today he's pushed it away every time.  He even gagged at the milk.  I was curious to see if it was the milk he didn't like or the sippy cup, so I put a little in his bottle.  He sucked it down.  So, what's more important?  Getting him to drink milk or getting him off the bottle?

[scucci1979]

i have tried serving the milk warm but that didn't work. I even tried to serve it while she was in my arms.  I am going to try my lap next. I do have to admit, I have not been consistent.