Sippy cups, help

[Danielle9608]

I have never been able to get Averi to drink anything but water from a sippy cup. But now that she is almost I really want to say goodbye to the bottles. I feel like I have tried every sippy cup on the market. She doesn't really understand how to drink from regular spout ones, but drink from the straw one just fine, but only water. I bought these cups to try:

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and this is the kind I can get her to drink water from but nothing else

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Does anyone have any tips or suggestions to get her to drink milk/formula from a sippy cup.

I will let you know how the other two cups go when they come in.

[ikkin510]

I just wanted to say I've heard great things about those tilty cups. Sorry I don't have any helpful hints on getting her to drink formula from the sippy.

[Danielle9608]

I just wanted to say I've heard great things about those tilty cups. Sorry I don't have any helpful hints on getting her to drink formula from the sippy.

Oh good! I hope it works. Hopefully she will on have to tilt it a little, she never got the whole tilting the cup up to get stuff out.

[savepaws]

Good luck! The girls still love milk out of their bottles. They will take a sip of milk here and there out of sippys now but they won't drink very much and aren't getting their full daily value. So I still give bottles a few times a day. :bbredface: Operation sippy cups needs to happen soon though!!

At first I don't think they were able to suck hard enough to drink out of sippies so I removed the valves while they learned to tip up the cups. Now they can drink out of them no problem. They are just picky and like bottles a lot.

[Danielle9608]

Danielle are they still on formula or just straight milk?

[flyerso6]

I have tons of different types of sippys but only the playtex straw ones (your bottom picture) work here. But they never had an issue drinking milk from them. They get three meals a day, milk with breakfast and dinner, water with lunch. We had no problems stopping bottles at 1. Their last bottle was their night bottle on their bday.

Mackenzie still isn't great at sippys but I think she is just lazy, she won't close her mouth, so she drinks, then opens her mouth and most of the liquid comes back out.

[Heywie]

Have you tried the sippy cups that have soft nipples? Not quite a bottle nipple, but a soft spout... I started Ollie on those because he took to them better. Too well, actually, because he figured out how to stick his finger in the spout and pour milk everywhere!

Good luck with the sippy cups you ordered. It's probably just a matter of time and a little practice before Averi gets it!

[bichonlvr]

We love the Born Free ones! But she was on the Born free bottles!

[Spatch4Officers]

I don't know anything about this stuff - but I hope you guys can get one that works for little Averi - my niece only drinks from regular cups (with help from us of course... but then again she's only 9 months so ... lol)

[Danielle9608]

Have you tried the sippy cups that have soft nipples? Not quite a bottle nipple, but a soft spout... I started Ollie on those because he took to them better. Too well, actually, because he figured out how to stick his finger in the spout and pour milk everywhere!

Good luck with the sippy cups you ordered. It's probably just a matter of time and a little practice before Averi gets it!

Yea I tried nuk which had soft nipple. Only problem is she didn't get that she has to tilt it to get anything out.

[Danielle9608]

We love the Born Free ones! But she was on the Born free bottles!


I never tried born free sippy cups. But one of the first sippy cups I tried with Averi was Avent because that is the kind of bottle she takes. Part of me is starting to wonder if not drinking out of the spout sippys in part laziness, because she still will not hold her own bottle. Only when I put this handle adapter on it and even then only for a ounce or two.

[bichonlvr]

I never tried born free sippy cups. But one of the first sippy cups I tried with Averi was Avent because that is the kind of bottle she takes. Part of me is starting to wonder if not drinking out of the spout sippys in part laziness, because she still will not hold her own bottle. Only when I put this handle adapter on it and even then only for a ounce or two.

That's my girl too....she prefers a cup....

[Danielle9608]

Well, I talk to the doctor and she suggested to go cold turkey. And we were planning on doing that until we discovered Averi will not even drink whole milk from a bottle. She flat out refuses to drink it. Warm or cold. So right now we are doing a 75% 25% combo. 25% milk. We will keep dropping the amount of formula everyday and replacing that with milk until hopefully it's just whole milk and then yaking the bottles. Not really the way I wanted to do it but hopefully this way works out.

[ikkin510]

That's what I had to do with Carter. Start mostly formula and a little milk and change the ratio every couple days. Even once he was on straight milk I had to warm it for a while so it was more like his formula.

[Danielle9608]

She never drank warm formula so I don't think I will have to warm it up much past room temp.

[ikkin510]

That's pretty much what we did with Carter. Warmed it up enough that the milk wasn't cold anymore.