my son is 10 months old and still will not use a sippy cup...he still can not figure it out. Am i a bad mother to have my son on the bottle after a year old?? my daughter was off of hers at 9 months old.
2006-12-15 13:38:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
After my formaula cans are all gone. I am on Wic...can i just put regular milk in the bottles?
2006-12-15 13:41:28 · update #1
he does not go to sleep in the crib with a bottle.
2006-12-15 13:41:54 · update #2
he is on 3 bottles a day
2006-12-15 13:42:19 · update #3
I can not cut down the bottles as he is only on baby food. he is not ready for any type of table food. he gags, chokes and turns all red and sometimes pukes it up. he is just not ready yet
2006-12-15 13:43:17 · update #4
i can not say i am taking the bottle away...he does not understand that yet
2006-12-15 13:44:35 · update #5
Dont panic at this point,most pediatricians say that baby should be off bottles at 12-18 and most will be but to just take it away with no warning is cruel...a baby wont know what is going on.Sippy cups are just as damaging to a childs teeth as bottles are...sippy cups only make adults lives easier because it prevents spills.My son weaned from breastfeeding at 7 months so i gave him formula in a bottle until one year and now that he is almost 14 months he still has the bottle but he is using it alot less...im not stressing b/c he will do it at his pace...he isnt even walking yet and im not stressed about that either...dont wish your baby away by wanting him to grow up so fast..his time will come.
2006-12-15 17:25:42 · answer #1 · answered by alecnaaron 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No WAY!! Some babies are ready for things at different times. That doesn't mean you're a bad mother!! One of my friend constantly "informed me" that her daughter was off the bottle at 9 months. My son was off the bottle at 10 months. But my daughter was on the bottle until 13 months. The other difference in the two was my son used a paci and my daughter didn't. So I think my Son was more willing to give up the bottle because he still had something to suck on. My daughter on the other hand never wanted anything to do with the paci.
I was just kinda wondering do you find that the case with your two also?
2006-12-15 21:46:16 · answer #2 · answered by ♥N,K,E&DJ'§ Mommy♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you are NOT a bad mom!!
Personally, sippy cups don't actually teach children ANYTHING abotu drinking from a real cup. It's just like a bottle, they have to tip it up and suck out of the tip in order to get the drink out. What is the big push to get kids off bottles and onto "bottles that look more like cups"? As long as you make sure your son isn't using it as a pacifying device or falling asleep with it, he'll be okay. Keep offering the sippy cups, though, play around with different types maybe he just needs to find one that feels good to him. Try different drinks inside too... my friends daughter wouldn't TOUCH the sippy cup until she put OJ in it one day and now the kids an addict :) But only with OJ ;)
2006-12-15 21:43:48 · answer #3 · answered by SaraBMW 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My sister-in-law didn't take her first two daughters off the bottle by one year...more like past 2 years. Needless to say, they have dental problems. Overbite, rotting teeth from giving the bottle at night. They are clean people too, don't get me wrong. Bottle after 1 is a no-no.
Maybe you could tell him Santa will be taking it it on Christmas and leave a sippy cup in it's place. Will he know what you're talking about? Or should you wait a few months?
2006-12-15 21:43:05 · answer #4 · answered by Kimber 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I let mine change when they thought they were ready. jI think my younger one just wants to skip the sippy cup, but have you tiried the Nuby Sippy cup, they have these at walmart. I bought the ones with the rubber top. It makes the transition easier because the top is made of the same material as the bottle nipples are. I had a hard time with my older one when she went to a sippy cup because she didn't like the hardness of the sippy cup and also she couldn't figure it out. She transitioned great with this one.
You can't introduce them to milk until they are a year old and then you should give them whole milk.
2006-12-15 21:45:28 · answer #5 · answered by joan jett 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My kids were the same way at that age. They only wanted to chew on the sippy cups. For some reason by 13 months, they were off the bottle. I just gradually took it away and they were fine with it. You are not a bad mother.
Try a different cup. Nuby makes one that has a nipple almost like a bottle. Gerber and Advent are good cups too. Good luck to you.
2006-12-15 22:14:55 · answer #6 · answered by TRUE PATRIOT 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
every child is diff. You are not a bad mom you just need to make sure he is on a bottle that he has to hold up to drink out of( mine was on the liner ones for a while and never learned to hold them up so I switched her so she would understand to turn the bottle up to get a drink like in a sippy cup. I think that yr to 14 months needs to be the cut off just keep trying hell catch on.
2006-12-15 21:42:45 · answer #7 · answered by mommy of 2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not a bad Mother. All kids are different. Try taking the stopper out of the sippy cup so he gets the idea that there is milk or juice in there. If he doesn't get it the first time try it again every 2 weeks. He'll get it. :)
2006-12-15 22:05:32 · answer #8 · answered by luv3dbb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are not a bad mom, what i did with my son was (and i know this sounds cruel) i took all the bottles and threw them away if he wanted a drink he would figure out how to use the cup! and after about 5 hours he was drinkin that cup like a pro!!! when i ran out of furmula for my son i always mixed milk with a little water but straight milk should be fine at your sons age! he is almost one which is when they switch to whole milk good luck
2006-12-15 22:33:37 · answer #9 · answered by *Heather* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my second daughter is has had difficulty gaining weight (she weighs 16 lbs at 20 months) so our doctor has recommended that we bottle feed her on demand. anyhow we were concerned with the same issue. one thing we did was we started to work straw cups into the rotation. we use just one spoonful of ovaltine in milk in the cup- and she is more than happy to drink from there to get the chocholate milk. slowly we have started to do use less ovaltine in the mix- and she has transitioned to straw cups pretty easily.
another thing i have worried about was bottle rot. when your child takes a bottle before bed after they have gotten their teeth- it's disruptive to leave the bedtime regimine to go into the bathroom and brush teeth. but if u don't they are bound to get cavitives. we now keep a toothbrush on her night table and after she finishes her bottle we brush her teeth with no toothpaste and then give her sip of water to rinse. the dentist seems to think that this does the job.
2006-12-15 21:56:08 · answer #10 · answered by stains 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋