So, we started daycare in September and found out our LO is the only kid in his class that still takes milk from a bottle. We didn't think too much of it because, well, we've tried to make the switch and usually he just screams and scream until we give him a bottle. Well, the daycare has been trying to help him switch the last couple of weeks by moving his milk to his sippy cup, but then he wouldn't drink any milk at all (not surprising to us at all) and we would pick up a very hungry and testy toddler so we gave him 5oz of milk (in a bottle) and a snack in the car for the 1 hour ride home. For our sanity - it's horrible to sit in a car for an hour with a screaming toddler.
Anyways, we decided this weekend we just had to go cold turkey. So Saturday we give him his morning bottle but then only offer it in a sippy after that (actually, it's still the same bottle, only with a sippy top - the tommy tippee ones). He refuses all day. We take him to grandmas in the evening so my DH and I can have a date (she volunteered) and tell her what we're doing - she gives in and gives him a bottle around 8pm.
He wakes up 3 times asking for a bottle, and we refuse saying "you don't get milk at night". At one point it takes him 2 hours to go back to sleep, and he screams and screams.
Sunday morning he refuses milk again, and doesn't eat much breakfast (not unusual), but by 10 am he's getting super fussy and whiny, asking for his bottle. We offer him milk in a sippy and he pushes it away and screams. Ok, time for an early nap! Wakes up from nap asking for bottle - we offer him sippy cup of milk and he throws it screaming again. Eats a pretty good size lunch though.
After lunch we take him to a local farm set up like an autumn theme park for the pumpkin patch, corn maze, tractor ride, pig races, etc. He does fairly well, but occasionally asks for his milk - we offer it in sippy and he throws another fit EVERY SINGLE TIME. He does, however, devour the rest of his lunch that I decided to pack up and take as a snack. And also eats half a sausage on a stick and some fried potatoes as if he was mr. starving - seriously, I've never seen this kid eat so much.
He actually *almost* sleeps the whole night from 7pm to 4am. We get him back to sleep without milk (just water in a sippy) but by 5 am he's having none of that and wants his milk - DH offers it in a sippy and he starts screaming again. Sooooo, DH brings LO to the kitchen and he devours a whole bowl of dry cereal and four large strawberries and then happily passes out for another hour until we have to go to work.
So, do I have the most stubborn toddler ever? Will he ever give in to milk in a sippy or are his milk days over?
