My daughter is a week away from 11 months. I'm trying to stich her from a bottle to a sippy cup, but she won't take it. I've tried many times to give her the sippy cup with water or juice, but once her teeth touches the mouth piece of the sippy cup, she turns away and won't let it get near her mouth. Sometimes she'll drink from my glass of water. Should I just skip the sippy cup and give her formula in a cup? What can I do to get her off the bottle?
Ummm... Okay... this may seem a little frank, but please understand that I mean it with love. LOL
And... as a mom of 7 kids, I might be a little opinionated. Experience does that to a person. LOL
If you want to switch her to a sippy, do it. Throw the bottles away, and when she's thirsty she will drink from it. 11 months is a F-I-N-E age to do that. Your instincts are right in this area!!! I promise you will not emotionally damage her and she doesn't need it for "comfort."
We all like the familiar. It's, well, what we KNOW and are used to! But just as we encourage our kids to try walking, potty training, basketball, driving, and whatever else is the next step... we encourage them to stop things that are no longer age appropriate. You do NOT want to be one of those moms who the other moms point at in the grocery store and say, "Is that a 4yo with a bottle still?" Then they shake their sad heads. Yuck!!!
Be a good mom. Encourage your daughter to do things that you feel are timely, even if she doesn't "want" to do it. Toss the bottles. If it makes you feel better, get 3-4 different kinds of sippys and see if she prefers one style to another. But don't get caught being the "mommy martyr" who has to keep her baby a baby because it makes you feel needed. I'm sure you can think of someone like that. Be the best mom YOU can be.
You'll make it through this transition. Then, the hardest... potty training! Then you'll feel like super mom, like you can do anything. I bet you'll do a great job. :)
Dear alivia, At your daughters age you don't have to push her drinking from the sippy cup. The bottle is an emotional security to a child and can be difficult to give up. If she drinks from a regular cup, regular cup with a straw that is fine. Some sippy cups are made spill proof these are very hard to drink from. Try a regular sippy cup. Give your child several to play with and get familiar with them, she may love the orange one but not the green one. Then you can start giving her liquid from the green one. But if she refuses any sippy don't push it try again later. Sue...good luck
Alright, it is NOT okay for a 5 1/2 year old to be drinking out of a bottle, it promotes tooth decay, especially if your giving sweet drinks like juice in them. Doctors reccomend weaning children of the bottle by 1 year. Sippy cups are prefered to bottles however, dentists still don't like them because they still put the liquids near the teeth. A cup with a straw is the best choice if your child can't drink from a regular cup yet.
Well what if your child enjoys sour things then what?? My son is 17 mnths old soon to be two in September, and sometimes He drinks out of the bottle and sometimes out of a cup, But mainly out of the cups that we may drink out of,my mother suggested that I send the "big people" cups to daycare and let them know that this is all he will drink from.
try giving her the sippy cup there and take away the bottle...everytime she is thirsty, give her the sippy cup...do that evry time she wants a drink...and throw all the bottles away. keep doing that, she will have to drink it if she gets thirsty.
Hi! Your daughter is still young enough to drink from the bottle. My sister went on till she was 5 and a half!
What you can do is cut the teats so the little whole is too big, then she will not find it fun to drink from it any more...?
you dont have to change right now your daughter is still young, try the sippy cups with the soft nipples, I bearly swiched my daughter about 6 days ago and she love it cause it still fills like her bottle.
I agree with jenasayqua .
My mum did that as I wuldnt come off it .And ti works just fine - I cried for ages but it has to be done!
Good Luck.
and 11 monts is not to young .x
I weaned my daughter off the bottle at 5 months , at walmart they have some soft nipple sippies, they work great they are nUk. try those.
Put lemon or vinegar on her bottle adn alittle honey on her sippy cup.
