Change bottle for sippy/straw cup for one year old

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Hello

I am looking for advice. My son now is 1 year old, when he was 10 month old I stoped him breastfeeding, cause I couldn't handle diet - he is allergic to diary, eggs white and yolk, wheat and peanuts, so I start giving him bottle - soya powder ( he is not allergic to soya ). He really like that, when he turned 1 - last week I start giving him soya milk for 1-3 years old - he love it. I giving him quite often - after each meal and before bedtime ( 4 times a day - 150 to 180 ml each time ). I giving him so often, because he don't getting enough weight, and he don't eat much food - because it's boring eat similarly food all the time, cause it's hard to make tasty food for him when he can't eat a lot stuffs.
So from the 6 month old I was always trying introduce sippy cup and cup with straw - sometimes he drinking, but not much.
Now I am trying change his bottle to sippy cup or cup with straw, it's going hard. I decide that I will change at first one milk time from bottle to cup, so I decide do that at lunch time, he ate his food and later he was expecting his milk in bottle - I gave him sippy cup - he drink little bit and start crying, and don't took any more ,I give up and give him bottle, then after 2 days - today I decide try with cup with straw I gave him after his feed - he even did not try and cry for long time - I drink form it and he don't even think to take it, so I didn't gave him any milk and put him for nap, feeling bad that he gone for nap without milk.
I know that in his age he don't suppose to get milk so often, but just he is much healthier and looks better and happier when he have milk.
Can anyone please suggest how to change completely bottle to cup?
P.s. I will see daetrition only next month.

If he’s having the bottle before a nap, I’d try to swap another milk feed for the cup instead if that one. He may be associating the bottle with sleep and it’s going to be difficult to swap to a bottle and changecrhat association at the same time. Could you try swapping his first milk feed instead?

Such a restricted diet must be tough. Have you posted in the MN Allergy Section for ideas? Would he be ok with Porridge Fingers made from Porridge Oats and his milk?

Is he getting a decent vitamin supplement too?

Thanks for advice, i will start then from first milk feed.
He love porridge with his milk as breakfast, and porridge snaks he like too, but still need more ideas.
I did not know about allergy advices section - I will definitely check.
I waiting for daetrition opinion about any supplements, at the moment I doing like my allergic and my pediatrician.

Does he like things adde£ to his porridge OP like chopped banana, raisins or berries? My DC loved things added and it makes it a bit more interesting for them. There’s another breakfast idea here. Can he eat things like spag bol made with spelt spaghetti, fish pie, cottage pie etc?

How is he with wheat free bread? Can he have things like smooth almond butter, avocado or sardines on toast?

He hates porridge with babana, but i will try introduce tomorrow with berries. He can have spaggeti maded from corn - it's taste different, maybe that why he not much like it, i don't have idea what is in fish pie, but my cottage pie he like.
I was giving him wheat free bread - but he dont like that, but I anyway will try give him later, because he is like that - that he don't like new things, so always need introduce him at least 3 or 4 times. And it is where it's became really hard - he don't want eat the same what was eating yesterday, because it's boring, but if introduce him new taste he will not wanted too that.

P.s. I don't giving him anything where is nuts, just afraid if he is allergic to other nuts.
He like salmon, maybe he will like sardines too - need try.😊

Sorry forgot to say. If you’re giving him Soya milk, just make sure that it’s fortified with calcium. Soya doesn’t have much fat in the milk either, it’s a bit like giving the baby semi skimmed instead of full fat so as well as making sure he gets enough calcium, yiu need to replace the fat in his diet. You can do this with avocado, oily fish (he can have oily fish upto 3 times a week), smooth nut butters and by adding olive oil to his Savoury dishes and if Oatly Cream is siuitable, you can add that to his porridge

Sorry, x-posted with you there. I can totally understand you not wanting to offer other nuts at this point if he’s not been tested for an allergic reaction yet.

It’s perfectly normal for a one year old to eat something one day and reject it the next or to be reluctant to try new foods, especially as he’s having so much milk so he knows that if he refuses anything, he can just fill up on the milk straight after

If you are offering something new, I’d try to give him something you know he’ll like as well, it doesn’t have to be much. So if you try him with sardines on toast, maybe offer him some cucumber sticks alongside if he likes those.

There’s a recipe here for allergy free fish pie although I’m not sure about his allergy to wheat, would you need to swap the Gluten Free flour for Wheat Free flour?