2006-10-11 08:52:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Our 13 month has been using her sippy cup for water since she could sit up (at 5 months). She constantly trails this around with her but she won't take cold milk from the sippy cup or the bottle.
2006-10-11 08:58:43 · update #1
try warming the milk up in the sippy cup. after a few week don't warm it up as much (little by little) serve it to her a little colder. It is often a shock to them to go from warm bottles to cold milk
2006-10-11 09:08:20 · answer #1 · answered by Nani 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every pediatrician has stated they should be completely weaned by age 1 and drinking from a sippy cup. It may not be a cold turkey event, but give your baby something like just plain water or really diluted milk in the bottle and put the good stuff in the sippy cup to promote drinking from it. I'd say start trying the transition around 8 or 9 months and give the baby a sippy cup with most meals. If your child is one year old or older try the latter idea of putting the appealing stuff in the sippy cup and keep only a few bottles around.
2006-10-11 08:58:05 · answer #2 · answered by d4cav_dragoons_wife84 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Around 12-15 months is usually when they should start switching over to sippy cups.
2006-10-11 08:54:07 · answer #3 · answered by CelebrateMeHome 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By about a year my daughter was drinking the milk out of her bottle so fast that she would throw up! That's when I realized she was ready for the sippy cup. About a year.
2006-10-11 08:54:59 · answer #4 · answered by Mrs. Strain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For my kids, the magic age of sippie cups began at 10 months. Most kids should be weaned by 12 months. (We did this early because we had fewer ear infections with sippie cups)
2006-10-11 08:57:08 · answer #5 · answered by sm2f 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son is 12 months and still on the bottle. My goal is to have him off by 18 months. He still seems a little young yet for me to take him off. I tried it one day and he wouldn't take his milk from a sippy cup. My husband said he seen somewhere online (maybe babycenter.com) that 18 months was a good target to go for.
2006-10-11 15:11:16 · answer #6 · answered by mommycat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have three kids and I took them all off before or around 12 mo. You can use the no-spill soft top sippy cups and they seem to like it just a well.
2006-10-11 08:55:29 · answer #7 · answered by ROOTER 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on you child. My daughter still uses a bottle at 16 months. But it's only 1 per day. Otherwise she'll drink out of a cup. Just not milk.
2006-10-11 08:56:58 · answer #8 · answered by jamieinreno 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is almost two years old and drinks from a sippee cup, a baby bottle, and a regular water bottle. It takes time to ween them off of the bottle. If they want it, they will put up a fight until they get it. Sooner or later though they will forget about the bottle and be more at home with a sippee cup or something like that.
2006-10-11 08:55:56 · answer #9 · answered by Jeffrey M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
6 months
2006-10-11 14:29:38 · answer #10 · answered by artina17 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋