Getting off bottle on to cup at 22months

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MABS · 07/08/2002 12:04

22 month ds will NOT drink milk out of anything but a bottle. I'm quite cool with him having a bedtime bottle to settle with but am trying to stop the morning one.

As soon as I get him out of cot he shouts 'Muk, Muk,Muk' (his word for milk) constantly til he's had his 4/5 oz. He drinks water from a cup no problem . Any ideas ? thanks

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bayleaf · 07/08/2002 12:36

I don't have any ideas - I had the same problem I just ended up dropping the morning milk drink and making sure she had weetabix with the same amount of milk on them as she would have drunk.

JaneyT · 07/08/2002 12:45

I have the exact same problem with dd1 - who I am ashamed to say is 31ms !- who refuses milk from anything but a bottle.

I have continued to let her have it as she loves her milk, but am conscious that dd2 - only 15mns - drinks her milk from a beaker !

I had a thought that we would go together and buy a 'special' beaker/cup for her milk, as she has already drunk milk from the beakers at home - I wondered if she thought the milk would taste funny from a beaker she had drunk juice from ! I haven't tried this yet though.

Many months ago I stopped giving it her in a bottle and kept offering it in a beaker, but after a few days she still refused it so I went back to the bottle - should have stuck it out I know. This may be worth a try, and if its any consolation many of my friends toddlers also only drink it from a bottle !

Azzie · 07/08/2002 12:49

Have you persevered with the milk in a beaker in the morning? If you really want to break this then I think you'll have to be really firm - milk in a beaker or no milk at all. If he really wants his milk in the morning (and at that age my ds was totally unbearable until he'd had his morning drink of milk - luckily he took it from a beaker quite happily) then eventually he'll get the message. If he doesn't, then I think you've got two choices here. One is to do as Bayleaf suggests and drop the morning milk altogether. The other is to go cold turkey, get rid of the bottles altogether and give him his evening milk in a beaker as well. It may well be that as long as he knows there are bottles available he will continue to refuse to drink milk out of anything else.

jessi · 07/08/2002 14:21

Why does this matter so much? Surely its a comfort thing for them and its not likely that they will still be drinking milk from a bottle when their 15. My ds had milk in a bottle up until he was 2.5. Now he's gone off milk he has water in a bottle.

pupuce · 07/08/2002 15:53

Well I have an idea that I discovered accidentally... I had forgotten DS's bottle at home and had none to give... told him so and said, well if you want milk...I only have a cup... he didn't believe me but I stuck to my guns and the bottles have NEVER re-appeared !
DS was 23 months at the time and drinking only in the evening.

Of course hide them well !

angharad · 08/08/2002 11:08

Does it matter? It's not in public so nobody can give disapproving looks! DS2 is a month or so younger, he happily drinks milk from a beaker at nursery but kicks off at home. He once tried to pour the milk from the beaker down the hole in the botle's spout so he cpuld drink it from the bottle.

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Gaga · 13/08/2002 22:47

Do you know how refreshing it is to know that everyone else is going through exactly the same as me? I frequently feel paranoid about such things as my two year old still using a bottle at home (he too drinks quite happily from a beaker at nursery but will not entertain it at home).But when I read everyone's messages it reassures me that I should not be worrying.Just thought I'd let you know you are not on your own as I felt so much better when I realised I wasn't.

JanZ · 14/08/2002 11:13

I need a wee bit of reassurance/clarification. When people talk here of getting their kids to drink out of beakers rather than bottles - are they meaning anywayup/other valved cups or are they meaning open cups?

Ds is 23 months and we've now got him drinking all his milk out of anywayup cups or bottles with Avent magic spouts. He drinks his water out of an Anywayup cup (lots of it) - and he never has juice, so I'm not worried about his teeth. I leave a beaker of water in his cot at night, so if he's thirsty he's got something.

We've tried him with open cups, including the Doidy cup, but without success and have to admit for the moment we've given up. He just spills it down his front/over the table/floor whenever he has an open cup, even with supervision.

Should we be persevering?

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