Anyone else have a sippy-cup refusnik?

[MrsTittleMouse]

DD is now 12 months and is supposed to be coming off bottles. However... everytime I've tried to give her milk in a sippy cup she refuses and becomes hysterical. I've tried different brands, I've tried a bottle-to-cup transition bottle with a really soft teat that is a bit sippy cup shaped, nothing works. I've also tried a regular cup, which she will take, but she spills loads, and often the water goes down the wrong way, and she sometimes gets fed up and pushes the cup away, throwing the contents across the room (which is why I've only tried with water, not milk!).
She also hates to hold the bottle, and seems to either have a "why keep a dog and bark yourself" attitude, or she gets a lot of comfort from being fed that way. She was really good going from breastmilk to formula from a bottle at 10 months, but going from a bottle to cup is beating us both.

Ds has never done sippy cups.

We gave him a small (plastic) glass sometimes with a straw. He was alright with that from about 1yo, supervised and with only a small amount of liquid in.

Its a pain, but we avoided them completely in the end.

He's 3 now and will sometimes have lidded cups with a straw in, but only occasionally.

Don't stress. My son was 2 and a half before he finally gave up his bottle and took to a beaker / cup. Children do these things at different times. There's an awful lot of pressure these days to pass these milestones, but I seriously wouldn't stress about this particualr one. 12 months is very young and I don't think it's outrageous to suggest that perhaps children still need that oral comfort at that stage (or if not 'need' then enjoy and benefit from it. I know that isn't a fashionable view these days...)

There's no set way to make the transition, but because my son was that bit older, we were able to make a fairly painless transition in a matter of days. We just said 'No more bottles starting from tomorrow. You're a big boy now'. And that was that (a couple of days whinging at night for his bottle, but it passed. If you REALLY want to to stop the bottles sooner rather than later, you may just have to be harsh and take them away full stop, as a one yr old who enjoys her bottle is unlikely to want to give it up independently. xx

I have the same problem with my dd (14 months). She was drinking water happily from her tommy tippee cup, so I put her milk in it. Big mistake - she had a mega paddy, and then refused to drink anything at all from her cup for several weeks. She also doesn't hold her own bottle. So at the moment I'm not stressing about it. I've noticed that she copies the older children at playgroup, so I'm hoping that one of these days she'll pick up the plastic beaker she gets there, and drink from it like everyone else (at the moment, she only manages to spill it )

Oh good, yet again the MN advice is "this too shall pass". :}
I think I might give the straw idea a go though, especially if she sees me using one. That's how I got her to try a cup. Mind you, nothing to stop me wondering the house with the sippy cup either eh?

Whoops, that should have been not :}

I had two. Both of whom had bottles and breast. Refused sippy cups. Went straight from bottles to normal cups. DS#2 who really only had breast was fine with sippy cups.

Since both of my two only had milk morning and evening at this age I just carried on giving it to them in a bottle. I decided that twice a day for 5/10 mins couldn't be that bad. After all nobody else sees them. All other drinks came out of cups at meal times or a sports bottle if out and about.

By about 15/16 months dd1 drank milk from a sippy cup and dd2 wouldn't drink any milk at all.

dd is clueless as to what to do with a straw, even after a friend spent ages trying to demonstrate

DS2 will happily drink water from a cup but not his milk. He is 17 month old and has a doidy cup (where it is tilted to make it easy to drink from)

see this

DS1 drank milk from a lidded cup in the day but didn't give up his bedtime bottle until he was almost 2.

It doesn't go on their CV and I wash DS2's bottles in the dishwasher so it is not a problem for me.

You could buy endless cups and they could still refuse all of them. I would just keep trying it every now and then, sometimes they suprise you