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How do I get her to take milk in a sippy cup?

So my daughter is one year old. I want to stop her from using a bottle at all, but we are having a hang up. She uses a cup really well for water and sometimes juice, but will not drink milk from it. She recently started drinking cows milk as well as breast milk and will drink straight cows milk from a bottle, but not the sippy cup. I have tried sippy cups that have a silicone top, so it is more like a bottle. I'm just not sure what to do. I don't want to deprive her of milk by forcing it, she is on the lower side of the weight scale already.

Thanks.

Update:

I have been warming the milk I put in the sippy cup.

Update 2:

She was also very picky about her bottle. Only will use the playtex drop ins with a fast flow nipple.

Shelia- lucky for me she never used a pacifier. Good luck!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I would show her that your throwing away all of the bottles and then tell her if you want some milk you will have to have it in this cup. Then for a few days only give her the sippy cup. She'll probably end up taking it. I would also keep 1 bottle and just hide it up really high so that way in a few days if she is still refusing the cup but you really want her to have the milk she can have it in a bottle but try to not to do this.

  • NONAME
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    1 decade ago

    Throw away all the bottles. Eventually she will get thirsty enough to drink out of the sippy cups. If she does not like the flavor of milk you can put Nestle Quick in it.

    Source(s): On their first birthday, I threw out my twin boys bottles and made them watch. I have had no problems with sippy cups since then.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I did not give my son any choice after he was a year old. at bout 7 months I started giving him water and sometimes his formula in a sippy cup and after I was tol dm,y doc to get rid of the bottle at 1 year. I had no problems, he was off his bottle in one day..good luck..I have heard some kids are more difficult than others. Now if it were this easy to get rid of his pacifier...LOL

  • 1 decade ago

    It's the thickness of the milk and how hard they have to suck out of a sippie comparied to a bottle that is the problem. If you have a silicone tip, slice it a little so the milk comes out faster.

    Source(s): Been there, done that...worked for me!
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  • 1 decade ago

    i weaned my daughter bottle to cup using the avent bottles and cups. the tops of the cups attach to the regular bottles it worked for us. it takes time and trying lots of different cups. I probably have at least one cup for every type of cup out there. also the straw cups worked well too because my daughter loved to drink out of straws because i used straws all the time.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Try warming the milk like you would warm milk in the bottle.

  • 1 decade ago

    dont' give her a choice. throw all the bottles away and give her only the sippy cup. she'll soon learn that if she is thirsty and the only way to get it is from the sippy, she'll use it.

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