Stubborn 1 year old, milk, bottles and sippy cups! MAM soft spout as alternative?

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Anyone else run the gauntlet of a stubborn child and drinking milk from a soppy cup and can advice or give moral support...

My DD is 1 and still demanding between 5oz and 6oz of milk twice a day. It’s been a battle with her taste and reflux to get her on to cows milk but I am struggling to get rid of the bottle.

She drinks water from a 360 sippy cup but will not drink her milk from it.
It took 2 weeks of constant trying to get her to accept the water in the 360 cup and she drinks very slowly from it. (Milk goes warm and horrid long before she’s had 2oz let alone the 5oz she wants!)

I’ve tried free flow sippys, doidy cups, you name it!

I’ve found she will drink milk from this cup (link below) but I’m concerned it’s not suitable for her age - I think it’s a bite and suck type spout. Anyone have any ideas? My heath visitor didn’t know!

www.boots.com/mam-starter-cup-150ml-and-soother---blue-10249872?cm_mmc=bmm-buk-google-ppc--PLAs_HeroCompare--MAM-_-Boots+Shopping+-+Category+-+Baby+-+Medium+Margin+-+Desktop&gclid=CjwKCAiA3abwBRBqEiwAKwICA8fDNWBqyx22oftSqB-gx6ixJER75uW5fxAxyQC8dw2LotcPy1_6phoCmfMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I went cold turkey on the bottles at 14 months (after trying to gently make the transition for 2 months) and like your child my daughter could not possibly have milk from a different type of bottle... so she dropped her milk 🤷‍♂️ just gets her dairy from elsewhere.

She’s still desperate to have a milk first thing in the morning and won’t go to bed without it. We have had a stand off for the last few nights. She won.
Stubborn wee thing she is!

Sounds like she is more desperate for the bottle than the contents.

If she drinks milk from that cup, give her that cup. If she can manage it, then who cares if it's "supposed" to be for older children.

@clangus00 my concern is it’s too young for her.

She absolutely wants the milk just not from a 360 cup. Or rather not fast enough from a 360 cup for it to appeal to her.

Ahh. Sorry.

A wee bump for this post; as I have milk all over my carpet and wall as dd found it hilarious to shake the 360 cup everywhere; then howled for the milk she’d wasted.

Parenting. Woo.

On the plus side at least your one year old knows what to do with a sippy cup. Mine doesn't. She tends to either chew the bottom of it or launch it at the cat!

I am also good at this parenting thingy....

Why can’t she just have a bottle?

My DS is one and the evening bottle I’m sticking with.
All other drinks are out of sippy cups, we had that one from 6 months, then the other mam one with the clvalve to stop the flow, then onto tommee tippee

Yes t is a good cup but I tried it and it’s like the number 2 newborn teats

When you say demanding milk, what does she do? We offer 5oz milk in the morning (first drink) in tommee cup then water til bed time, when 5oz again with a bottle to sleep

1 is still very young

DS didn't have that exact one but he had a very similar one he'd happily drink cows milk out of.
He never had normal bottles though as he was breastfed so I'm not sure how different the 2 spouts would be.
But like yours he'd drink water out of a (plastic hard) sippy cup but not milk - I think the softer spout was more comforting for him.

Having the same issue still at 20 months! He throws any other cup back at you if it has milk in and demands a bottle......I've somewhat given up to be honest and try every weekend when i am off work and have time. To be honest if i have to wait until i can negotiate with him i will.....

My daughter had a night time bottle until just after 2. Her teeth are fine. My son is 18 months and still has a bottle at night. Things change so quickly with children that in a few months things might be very different. I wouldn't bother putting yourself and her through this. Revisit in a few months.

My 1yo DD uses a Munchkin weighted straw cup if you haven't tried that! Is she just turned 1 or 1 going on 2? If she's not long turned 1 then I would just let her use the cup she likes and not worry about it for now. I've never met a child who grew up unable to drink from a normal cup past a certain point so I don't think it's worth the stress. If she has something that works then just go with it.

We used a nuk sippy cup, they have a soft silicone spout and is a good transition to cups. We didn’t give up bedtime and morning time bottles though till 2.5years even though my health visitor told me off for it I ignored her and just did what we felt was best

Your DD is only 1, really perfectly more than ok for her to have her milk in bottles.

My DS1 has a bottle at night until he was two, he drank 10oz milk at bedtime and it would have taken bloody ages from a sippy cup, happily had it at other times though. I say let her have a bottle as she’s only one. DS2 on the other hand is 15 months and doesn’t take a bottle, is breastfed and if I am not available for bed time milk, will take a small amount of cows milk from a hard tommee tippee or one of those 360 cups. I wouldn’t overthink it, she’s still tiny.

I'm team bottle too, I know when mine were little this is exactly what I worried about - having teens now I really wished I hadn't been so worried and just enjoyed having a 1 Year old to snuggle up with a bottle at the beginning and end of each day.

Try Nuby grip and sip

Oh wow thank you for all the replies; no progress here other than higher milk splashing!

She is only just one yes, she has inherited the family large gap in her front teeth so I’m keen to get her off the bottles as soon as possible but probably more
To reassure myself that her teeth won’t get worse if that makes sense.

By demanding, she shouts for her milk and wails and sobs; if it is presented in the hard cup she still throws it and wails for the bottle and milk!

It’s blooming hard this parenting lark!
Never know if I’m doing the right or wrong thing!

Have you tried a straw?

@reluctantbrit; yes! She used it like a paint brush then a spoon. It was actually quite funny!

DS is 16 months and will drink milk from a bottle or the soft spout Nuby cup.

My son accepted the soft spout cup you have shared as a transition from his bottle at 18 months if I remember rightly. However his bottle never showed any sign of affecting his teeth. After a few weeks of using the soft spout cup his bottom teeth had stubborn plaque build up which is still slightly visible now he is almost 5. Dentist isn't bothered by it but it bothers me.
He also chewed right through it in them 3/4 weeks so it went in the bin.