Our 10 month won't take her forumla in a bottle or sippy cup?

Question

She eats her solid food, but won't drink more than a couple of oz. in of her formula in her bottle and won't take a sippy.

Any ideas on what I can do? Is it possible to add some type of flavoring to her formula to make her want it more?

THANKS

Answer 1

Call your pediatricians office on Tuesday and ask one of the nurses - I'm sure this is something asked of them before. I've heard of kids just waking up one day and deciding that they no longer want formula (after tasting real food and smelling that stuff I'm surprised it didn't happen with mine!) and it not being an issue. Since she is close to a year, they may suggest switching to whole milk with some kind of nutritional supplement to get you by until she reaches 12 months, but they would need info on what she's eating otherwise to make that determination.

Answer 2

At that age when introducing new food she may just being going through a faze of not liking formula. Do not flavor it. She may just need some time because of course solid food tastes better than the boring formula she drank for months. Kids are like that. Just make sure she gets other fluids so she won't get dehydrated

I would ask her doctor about converting her to whole milk, but don't go straight to whole milk. Try half formula, half whole milk so her body can digest and make a smooth transition. She still may be too young though

Answer 3

We started switching my DD to whole milk at 9 months, with the docs blessing. She seemed to enjoy it more. We stopped heating her bottles and once we found a sippy cup she liked we had no more problems. She seemed to be exerting her independance. We do however own about 9 pricey sippy cups, but the playtex sipsters are her favourite and she'll drink anything from them no problem.
We do keep a can of vanilla flavoured toddler formula in the cupboard for the days when she's teething and/or not eating so well. Sort of a supplement and it's by far her favourite. Smells great too.

Answer 4

hmmm.... my daughter stopped taking a bottle at 10 months and also refused her formula. I just switched to real milk and juice also she was drinking from a straw around 8 months its a great thing to get her into if she will that way you can get rid of the sippy cups soon as well you can still use them for the spill resistant part just use the kind that you can fit a straw into. Its allot better for her teeth:) Good luck:)

Answer 5

it has taken my son forever to drink well from a sippy cup. I finally tried the "take and toss" brand and he does great with these. Keep going with formula till 1yr. You shouldn't have to flavor it. She's been drinking it for 10mo now, so she likes it. It will just take time to get used to the cup. Try different ones and you'll eventually find a winner. Just keep offering it over and over. You may want to try a little watered down juice to get her to use the cup. If you're worried about not getting enough dairy, try yogurt and mix it with some iron fortified baby cereal to thicken it up.

Answer 6

mine did exactly the same thing, she just went through a fussy stage, we stopped warming it and gave it to her at room temp and she took to it again. Took a while for her to drink it from a sippy cup though, had to really keep at it.

Answer 7

Talk to the doctor but I think maybe you should try whole milk. She is almost a year old. She might prefer the taste.

Answer 8

Go over to regular whole milk. I sent mine to cow's milk at 6 months (I didn't know I shouldn't, and we couldn't afford formula). She did fine. Ten months is close to a year, and that's when they say to make the switch.

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