DD was BF until 6mo and happily moved onto bottles. At 5mo we started giving her sips of water out of a tommee tippee beaker which she was and still is fine with. At 10mo we tried to introduce more grown up beakers/toddler training cups etc for her milk. She refused them point blank, we kept trying every week or so but she just wouldn't take to them. I have bought probably everything going on the market that I know about, our cupboard is bursting with unused brightly coloured plastic cups.
I wasn't too worried but she's now 13mo and we've been trying regulary and she just refuses. She'll happily drink from them if it's water but when she tastes milk she throws it away. I'm worried about her teeth (she has 11) and speech development if we carry on with bottles.
I read on here a while ago about a woman in a similar position and it was suggested to her that she should try being stubborn and simply offering the new cup and not offering an alternative for 3 days. So I tried this and it didn't work. She just refused for 3 days and was in a total state. She wouldn't sleep and spent the whole time grumpy and worn out.
Some people might suggest dropping the bottles and making sure she had lots of cheese, yogurt etc in her diet but I have tried this also and without the milk she just doesn't sleep. She has 3 bottles a day, 6:30am, 2:30pm and 7pm. Although she doesn't need milk to go to actually go to sleep I guess she must just think "hang on I haven't had any milk today, I'm not going to sleep".
I've been very patient about it and trying to make it fun or even ignoring the issue like it's just her normal bottle but she's not playing ball. So what do I do? If I drop the milk and replace with other calcium she won't sleep but if I carry on with the bottles then I'm risking damage to her teeth and speach development. Any amazing little bottles out there that I don't know of or any amazing ideas?
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lizzywig · 08/12/2012 08:12
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