still won't drink from a sippy cup!

[Anonymous]

I posted a couple of months or so ago about Owen refusing to take milk in a sippy cup and I think it’s a test of wills!! This kid wants to show me his power now! UGGGHHHH!

The reason I don’t think it’s anything other than him refusing is that he will just go all day without drinking milk, but he’ll drink water and he sleeps fine and otherwise is not crabby except with the teething thing going on too. When he gets that bottle at night he guzzles it in about 3 min. I have tried warming the milk in the cup to no avail!

My doc wants me to take away his night bottle by 18 mo check up and that is really the only milk he is getting. Weight is not really an issue anymore as he is 23lbs and he eats well. He does eat cheese, yougart, and gets other forms of calcium, but it’s the dehydration I worry about.

I gave up and let him have 4 oz in the bottle for his noon nap so now I’m sure he’ll remember that tomorrow when DH is here alone with him! Otherwise he has had about 3 oz of water and 2-3 sips of milk plus what little bit was in his cereal this morning!

I’m becoming obsessed with his intake like I was when he was a few months old and I dread mealtime b/c he just throws his cup at me.

He was out of control crabby this morning which I think was teeth. He’s getting a second set of tubes next week and adnoids removed so I can’t give him Ibuprofen right now until after that. But he also didn’t drink hardly anything so I would have been crabby too!

Any suggestions are welcome!!! How many oz are kids this age supposed to have?? Do your kids get the right amount??? My oldest would guzzle milk like crazy at this age and it’s driving me nuts!

[Anonymous]

I don’t really remember how much at that age was a normal amount.

Have you tried different types of cups? Isaac would only drink from the munchkin straw cup until recently.

[Anonymous]

dont worry ..shane wont take a sippy either! not sure why..

he still gets two bottles a day! only 5 or 6 ounces each..

my ped. hasnt told me to take them away..and to be honest i wouldnt anyway! its the only way he gets his milk.. (rice milk).. and i feel assured.

one way he will drink juice though.. is through these juices called “wadda juice”.. its in a bottle that doesnt spill and is half juice half water..and added vitamins and calcium! maybe you can look into those??

[Anonymous]

Danika my oldest also would not drink milk from a sippy cup. The only way I can get her to drink milk is in a open face cup.

[Anonymous]

hmmm. Maybe try a different cup. Or even pour it from the bottle into the cup? I am lucky that Cooper has adapted really well and we are down to bedtime bottle only. I gradually started taking his bottles away at 10 months and just took his breakfast one away this week and changed to a cup and he did fine, but he loves his sippy cups. What about letting him drink from a regular cup with you holding it? Is that an option? I am clueless, but I would keep the bedtime bottle until he will take milk from a cup just to make sure he is getting what he needs. I was told at our 1yr check that no more than 16 oz of milk/day, don’t know if that increases as they get older.

[Anonymous]

He will occasionally drink better from an open face cup, but that is also minimal. I was going to try one of those Nuby brand sippy cups with the soft nipple like lid. He doesn’t get the drinking from a straw thing and it actually will throw him into a huge fit when we try. He just bites on all straws. If we take the straw out and have a little liquid in it, he will suck the liquid out, so he knows how to suck, just won’t do it will the straw in the cup. He’s one of those kids who just is very short tempered. It gives us lots of things to look forward to in life!!

[Anonymous]

Oh gosh…I was going to suggest a straw up until I read your last post. That was what worked well for us. We only had to do it for a few days until she would FINALLY take milk from her regular sippy. I was glad to get rid of the straw sippy…they were a pain to clean!

GOOD LUCK next week with his surgery. I will be anxious to hear all about it. We have avoided that same surgery for the moment, but we go back in 10 weeks for another check up and I’m afraid it’s imminent.

I don’t know the exact ounces he should be taking but I know the ounces needed drops significantly after they turn one year old so maybe he doesn’t need as much as you are thinking??!?!??!

[Anonymous]

I remember using those avent sippy cups because you can use that soft spout, or an avent nipple. Dylan was difficult to transition, but really like the nipple, not so much the bottle. So we did this for a bit to transition slower. We are probably not the best family to go by, because I just throw the timing thing out the window (I think Dylan was almost 3 when we got rid of the bottle/nipple thing) but we did what worked and what made him healthy. I know it didn’t help with speech at all as it did not help him develop the appropriate muscles, but I think you pick your battles and do what you need to in order to keep your LO healthy.

Good Luck!!

Ann Marie

[Anonymous]

Do you think it’s because he doesn’t like sucking so hard? I know with teething, it can really irritate the gums because those darn valves are so hard to pull liquid through. Maybe try taking the valve out during a meal and see if he likes it any better.??

[Anonymous]

ooh it does sound like a will thing! lol

If not, I would def try various sippys like others have suggested to see if maybe he just doesn’t like that particular cup. landen uses the playtex “my first sipster” and likes the munchkin straw cups (he sees big bro with them). You can also order Dr. brown’s sippys if that is the kind of bottle owen uses, maybe if it looks familiar it would help.

Landen was really easy to get to use a sippy and I was shocked b/c I excpected him to be a pain about it. I still give Landen a bottle at naptime and bedtime, but we are working on taking away the naptime bottle and eventually bedtime. Don’t worry, he’ll do it when you least expect it, perhaps with a different cup. My oldest was REALLY stubborn about using a sippy cup and wouldn’t hold it himself for a long time. LOL

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