Will not drink milk from sippy cup!!

[SabrinaD]

DD will be 12 months next week and she will not drink her formula at all from her sippy cup !

I've been giving her juice or water in it since she was 6 months. we have tried sooo many different sippy cups, including ones with straws. She drinks out of them, but just a few sips here and there. I am getting ready to transition her to milk so i've been trying to give her afternoon bottles in the sippy cup. today she threw a huge fit until I put it in a bottle. she doesnt even hold her bottle herself, she will stop drinking if I put her hands near it.

Any advice on how to get her to drink milk from her sippy cups?
Right now she likes her bottle before her meals.

[Lolly]

How much milk is she having now?

Honestly - I wouldn't worry about it too much, she won't drink out of the bottle forever and she is still little! As she is approaching 1 I would stick with a morning and bedtime bottle for now and offer daytime milk in a sippy to let her have practice with the knowledge that she is having 2 good drinks a day. Once she starts drinking from the cup and she will if you are consistent, then look at switching the other bottles over.

What do you think?

Laura

[SabrinaD]

Thanks Laura! We have had issues in the past about her refusing bottles..we never could find out why. So the only way she would drink was if I just offered it whenever she would take it...she ended up taking bottles at 8am, 11am, 1230pm,330pm,and 8pm....they were all between 4-6ounces... So I would say she probably gets between 24-30oz.
the last couple of days I am trying to cut out the 11am bottle at least...but now that first nap has been dropped down from 1hr30 to an hour at the most.

I tried giving her 1230 bottle in a sippy..she refused it until I gave her the bottle. I gave her the cup with a straw and she was chugging it...she probably drank a good 3 ounces of just water. as soon as i put milk in it she threw it on the ground and ran away. how do i get her to drink the sippy with milk in it if she completely refuses it?

i tried holding her on the couch like we normally do with the bottle, giving it to her in her highchair, switching it out when she is drinking her water

[aisling]

Ds could drink out of sippy at 7 months old, hold a mug at 10 months and drink from it and use open cups at 1 yrs....BUT only water.  Milk in his world only came from a booby or a bottle.  I was fine with it as he could drink from other things, didn't walk around with a bottle hanging out his mouth and we brushed his teeth (had 16 teeth at 1 and all including 2nd yr molars at 2 yrs.) 

He weaned from BF at 19 months (his choice). He weaned his bottle (was only having one after supper) at 3.5 yrs.    He is/ was my baby, I saw no need to make him stop from his beloved bottle, he walked at 10.5 months, asked to go to a big boy bed at 26 months, was completely toilet trained (day and night) at 27 months (he initiated) so if that was his one connection to being a baby and wanting his "milkies in his bot-bot" god bless him. He has always been a child that knows what he wants and has fabulous self control, so he had a bottle until he was 3.5 yrs old, big deal.

His favourite drinks to this day are milk and water.  My 2 cents / pence.