weaning from bottle to cup

[kateyfer]

my dd is 15.5 mo and I'm trying to wean her off a bottle and on to a cup for her milk. she drinks water from sippy cups/ 360 cups/ doidy cups with no problem, but as soon as I try and give her milk in a cup she'll take one sip, realise it is milk, and refuse to drink any more until it is put into a bottle.

So, do I:

1. refuse to give her milk in a bottle anymore full stop. if she doesn't drink it from a cup, she doesn't get any milk? She always has some milk before bed, and my one concern with this is that she won't sleep through the night as she will get hungry.
2. split her milk between a cup and her bottle so she gets used to having milk from a cup as well
3. any other suggestions!?!?

what has worked for you?

Does she drink milk from a sippie cup? Maybe put that between bottle and regular cup...?

She is very young - I would just keep giving her a bottle for the time being. I know that they eay you should stop bottles at one, but I don't know anyone who actually did that. FWIW my daughter stopped drinking properly out of a bottle at 17 months. At that point she went onto a cup fine.

Hi HopingForAZoo - no, she won't drink milk from a sippy cup either. I'd like to get her drinking from a cup for two reasons. Firstly, she is very possessive over her bottle and screams like a banshee when her milk is finished and we take it away from her, and secondly she drinks it too fast in a bottle usually ending up in hiccups and/or wind.

she drinks water from a number of different cups, sippy cups, my water glass etc, so I know she can handle a cup very well, I think it is just the association she has with her bottle that I need to break...

With my DS we have just done the change from bottle to sippy cup. But he is 2. We waited until he could really understand.
I don't know how smart she is, but the way I did it was; I took him to the shop and he took a fancy to a random cup in there with a mouse on it. So I said that he could have this as a special cup for his milk. As soon as bedtime came he was so excited to have his new mouse cup that he forgot about his bottle, and has never asked for it since! He always has his little mouse cup now.

LPO, maybe my dd is a little young at the moment then, and i should wait. I love the idea of her picking out her own special cup!

Kat I don't know what is best for your daughter, all I can tell you is what worked for my DS. He loves his cup and gets so excited about having it!

Here is a random tip our Pediatrician gave us such we never had a chance to try. Give them a cold drink while they are in a warm bath. For some reason the sensory difference makes them want to drink it. We never did this because Ds caught on to a sippie cup pretty fast. O guess you could give it a try as it wouldn't hurt anything.

will give this a go Zoo and let you know if it works!!