Whats the best way to encourage my son to drink from a beaker not a bottle?

Question

Hes 15 months old and hates drinking from a cup or beaker so he always has drinks in his baby bottles

jacqui W
thanks
not helpful in the slightest!!!!

The problem with explaining to him that big boys drink from cups, is that hes onoly 15 months so he wouldnt understand what im saying anyway!!!

Answer 1

just leave him on bottles then esp for milk, however if he needs a drink, water in bottle or very diluted juice in a cup!

Answer 2

There are lots of beakers which are a cross between a bottle and a beaker. My 13 month old likes the idea of being the same as every one else so she has "fruit shoots water drink" which have a pull up top sports bottle when she is with her cousins.My daughter also tells me to call her babies beakers bottles to her How about when you take your son shopping go to the baby children aisle and buy him a beaker letting him choose one he likes himself There are so many different ones and the have some with a top of latex like a teat but it has the spout of a beaker I think it is called NU BY or NOBY i think we got it in Tesco .He is not too young to choose if you hold up a couple he will take one, Our family each have a special cup that we always have our hot drinks in if you said "look his name you have a special cup just like mummy and daddy so you can have your drinks in it because you are a big boy " this might encourage him . Don't make a big thing of him coming off the bottle and will discard the bottle when he is confident to.

Answer 3

i no how you feel my little girl would not drink from anything other than her bottle until she was about 2 and it was not through lake of trying i brought every cup going if i was to take her bottle away and just leave her with a cup she would go the whole day without drinking which i did not think was fair she is 2 and half now and she still has her bottle for bed but only while we read a story and then it is taken away my point is don't give up keep trying with the cup he will take to it some children just take a little more time than others i never thought i would see the day my little girl would be using a cup but given time she did. Good luck

Answer 4

Have you tried a glass and a straw? My son's the same age and sometimes will push away either a bottle or cup but will have a glass and a straw. Obviously, you need to hold the glass for him, but especially if you make a point of drinking like that yourself it might be worth a try.
If it doesn't work then don't worry unduly - try again in a few weeks, he's still young yet and will probably make the switch when he's ready.
I sometimes think we're under pressure to make them grow up too quickly.

Answer 5

i had same problem my daughter has always been big for her age at 18 months she looked around 3, she always had a bottle and would never use a beaker people used to look at me as though i was a bad mother for having a child with a bottle.I no its hard but you may have to waite a little while longer, leave the beakers around the house let him see they are there dont push him and try not to get your self upset about it, he will do it when he is ready. My daughter threw her bottle away when she was 3 all by her self.

Answer 6

You really should try to get him off the bottles, they arent good for his teeth. If you know another parent with a slightly older child who drinks from a cup of beaker, invite them round to play, and your son may decide for himself that he wants to be a big boy just like ...... Another way, if you dont know anyone with an older toddler, take him shopping with you and ask him which cup/beaker he would like now that he is a big boy. You could also "accidentally" break one of his bottles, and say that the tooth fairy broke it because its making his teeth all yucky, and tooth fairies just love children who are big and clever enough to drink from a cup/beaker! Its a case of invent whatever you can to deter him from the bottle. When he uses the cup/beaker for the first few times, praise him and say how big he looks drinking just like a big, big boy. If he gets stressed over not having a bottle, just bear with it, use distraction for a few minutes then say something like, "i will get you another bottle next week when i have got the pennies" and by next week, he will have happily converted to the new drinking cup/beaker. When you are out and about with him, make a big thing of saying, "look at that boy/girl drinking from their lovely cup, would you like one like that?" He will quickly adjust, its just been consistent with the cup/beaker for a short while.

Answer 7

i had trouble also with changing from the bottle to the cup but then i found these tommee tipee beakers with a rubber teat and he loves it, ithink half the problem is that sucking a beaker is completly different from that of a bottle. these tommee tipee ones they just bite down on the teat and the juice comes out. they are also non spill and come in different colours. you can get them from most supermarkets in england especially asda. about 2-4 pounds each.
with some beakers i have found that i cant even get a drink from them. and the problem is if he puts the beaker to his mouth and cant get a drink he isnt going to persist.

good luck these things are sent to test

Answer 8

In America, you would have to go to a chemistry laboratory to find a *beaker* for your son to drink from! ;) Seriously, though, can't you buy a child's drinking cup, which we in America usually call a "Sippy Cup", for your son? It's been many, many years ago, since my children switched from bottle to sippy cup; but I am reminded of when we had milk goats in the 1980s. We never let the kid goats nurse; but started them on drinking their mother's milk from a pan or a bucket from the very first hours of their birth! It would seem that a sippy cup *might* help your son make the transition to a cup or a beaker (American: tumbler or glass).

Answer 9

Try the Tesco bottle to cup trainer. Its just like a bottle but with a wider spout/teat and handles on the side.

My 9 and a half month old son (who is breastfed and has a serious aversion to bottles, cups and anything thats not a boob) took to drinking from this like a duck to water.

Plus its pretty cheap (about £2.50 I think) so you've not lost anything if he won't take to it.

You can also get little sippy spouts to clip into the bottle in place of the teat (Avent make "soft spouts" to fit their bottles")

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Product.aspx/BruOrFindUsing/BruAZOfBrands/BruFeedingAvent/423289

so its still the same bottle just a different way of drinking from it! It will get him used to sipping from a spout not sucking from a teat.

Answer 10

Thank Heaven for advancement! When I was little they didn't have all the fancy gadgets they do now! They have transitional helpers for all kinds of stuff now. Some stores carry bottles that have 3 different kinds of nipples to transition from baby bottle nipple to something that feels like a sippy cup top. Your toddler will get used to the feel so you can switch from bottle to sippy cup to (eventually) just a cup!

Answer 11

my 3 elder kids had cups early at about 8 months, so they took to them. my youngest is two and will not have a beaker, she will have a proper cup now and again but hates beakers, i think my mistake was not introducing her to a beaker early like i did with the others. i tried to keep her a baby as long as i could lol x

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