how do i get my 2 yr old off the bottle and to drink regular cold milk out the fridge?

Question

i have been trying to get my daughter off the bottle on to a sippy. she wont drink it at all unless i switch the nipple back on. ...

also i have been trying to give her cold milk instead of warm. but she wont take it. she it used to getting warm milk since she has been getting it since she was a baby

if she sees milk in someting else instead of a bottle she wont take it at all.

any advice would be great!!!

Answer 1

The nuby sippy cup worked for my son as I weaned him from the bottle. I also made him get a little thirsty and only offered him the nuby sippy cup. He got the hang of it because he was thirsty. After a month on the nuby i finally switched him to the big kid sippy cup and i had to do the same thing make him thirsty enough to try it out. Good luck!

Answer 2

Ideally at two years old you should get her onto a regular cup, sippy cups are really worse for teeth and jaws than bottles and are meant to be a short term step before a toddler is able to control tipping a cup. However at two she should be able to handle a big girl cup. So I would try that rather than a sippy cup. You an try a crazy straw at first if that will help.

Also you can try the good ol' "bottle fairy". Make a fancy letter from the bottle fairy and read it to her. It should tell her that she is a big girl and in X days/sleeps the bottle fairy is coming to take her bottles to a new baby who needs them. On the day help her pack up all the bottles and leave them at the foot of her bed (or wherever) and during the night replace them with a nice toy and some new big girl cups.

But ultimately you know what is best for your child, if taking away the bottles is causing her undue stress, and she starts having problems such as pulling out her hair, behavioural problems, sleep problems, nightmares, etc. Then maybe it isn't time to take her bottles away. There are much worse things that drinking from a bottle and many toddlers use pacifiers ALL THE TIME until much older than two. So really a bottle a few times a day isn't any worse. It is cruel to cause a child stress and take away their security item just because some book says it is time. What is right for most toddlers isn't necessarily right for yours.

Answer 3

We switched our daughter to a sippy and cold milk at 12 months and the way we did it was to just take the bottle away and stop warming the milk. I know that it sounds mean to do it that way, but I have watched so many of my friends try to switch and just go right back to the bottle. It took a few days, but once she finally gave in things have been great.

Answer 4

Just take it away, I have Cousin who had the bottle until she was four that's right 4 years old, you don't want that. My son is 17 months old and has not had a bottle since he was 14 months old. Sippy cup all the way, he is now learning to drink from a regular cup. Just take it away. Start with not letting her have it during the day and only at night then wean he of the night time bottle.

Answer 5

Have you tried the Nuby sippy from Walmart? The tip is very close to a bottle nipple. Throw the bottles away, then you won't be tempted to give in. I don't see the big issue with warm milk over cold except the time it takes to warm it, just try warming it for a few seconds less each day so she gradually gets used to the lower temperature.

Answer 6

Ok, I've been here before. My oldest son absolutely would not give up his bottle. Two months after my son's second bithday, I was like, ok we are done with this. I took him shopping to buy new cups. He had been drinking from a sippy, but he wanted his bottle too. So we went to the store and I let him pick them out. He got really cool ones with dump trucks,my husband and I made a huge deal out of what a big boy he was shopping and buying his own cups and all. From that day on he thought bottles were for babies only and never drank from one again. Just something you could try, good luck.

Answer 7

Explain to her that one day she will be a big girl and when she’s a big girl then there will be no more bottles. She’ll know when she’s a big girl because the bottle won’t taste good anymore.

Sell her this story for a few days or a week or two. Then one day, give her her bottle filled with buttermilk instead of milk. When she protests, give her some regular milk out of a cup and ask her if it tastes all right.

I know one person who did this and she said that it worked like a charm.

Answer 8

I had the same problem with my first born, i would give him small amounts of milk in a bottle without the lid to get used to drinking without a nipple, after while i would let him pour milk from bottle into sippy cup with help he then started drinking from sippy cup by himself. good luck!

Answer 9

I was lucky...my son went straight from nursing to a sipy cup. So the milk needs to hae the cold edge taken off it...that's not a big deal. Throw the bottles away, and only have sippy cups...she'll get thirsty. Kids know how to push the issue, and know you will eventually give in.

Answer 10

Good luck trying to get her to drink cold milk. You need to get her off the bottle as soon as possilbe. You can use a sippy with a protruding mouth on it. They have a backflow valve to prevent them from spilling. My two year old only took a couple of days to warm up to it. But I still have to warm the milk up though.