Help for young toddler who refuses milk from sippy cup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 2.5 yr old still drinks milk from a bottle. Am and Pm. During the day it's water from cup or straw, no problem so I know he's capable, but when it comes to milk it has to be in a bottle. And so it is.

Look op, choose the battle. Just go with the bottle for now. It's not like the kid is going to preschool with a bottle hanging from his mouth.
You know your child can drink fine from a cup.

Don't listen to those who think speech and teeth alignment will be screwed for life bc your child drinks milk 2x a day from a bottle. Maybe speech and teeth are effected if the bottle was used like a 24/7 pacifier, but it's not, right?

Do you really want to mess around with the extra xaliries, fat, sugar from cheese and yogurt as a sub. Or do the whole strawberry/choc. milk thing? If so, fine. Otherwise let it be.

Seriously? A 2.5 year old is a CHILD not a baby. Cut the cord PP. There is no reason your child should be drinking from a bottle.

[Anonymous]

NP. Exact same problem and same age. I trust chucked all her sippy cups since she started drinking from a straw cup. Can some PPs post links to transitional cups please.

[Anonymous]

OP here - just wanted to clarify that DD gets cheese and yogurt, but I don't give her sugar yogurt, she gets only plain yogurt. I don't like sugary yogurt, so we don't have any in the house. Sometimes I cut up fruit and mix it with the plain yogurt. And currently that's how she gets her calcium/dairy other than the one or two bottles a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just ask why is it so bad for a 15 month old to drink from a bottle? My 14 month old is the same, refuses to take milk from a sippy cup, but I just figured that was fine. Is there a developmental or medical reason why this is detrimental to her (not trying to be a rabble rouser here, genuinely wondering)?

OP here - the pediatrician noticed her teeth were starting to stick out, likely from the bottle.

It takes 3 mins to finish a bottle of whole milk. How would that short of time, 2-3 times a day, push out one's teeth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just ask why is it so bad for a 15 month old to drink from a bottle? My 14 month old is the same, refuses to take milk from a sippy cup, but I just figured that was fine. Is there a developmental or medical reason why this is detrimental to her (not trying to be a rabble rouser here, genuinely wondering)?

OP here - the pediatrician noticed her teeth were starting to stick out, likely from the bottle.

It takes 3 mins to finish a bottle of whole milk. How would that short of time, 2-3 times a day, push out one's teeth?

My DD takes much longer than 3 minutes to finish a bottle of milk. Maybe that's our fault for continuing to use slower flow nipples, but DD takes her time with a bottle.

[Anonymous]

Well then, sounds like she'll have very bad teeth, per dcum topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 2.5 yr old still drinks milk from a bottle. Am and Pm. During the day it's water from cup or straw, no problem so I know he's capable, but when it comes to milk it has to be in a bottle. And so it is.

Look op, choose the battle. Just go with the bottle for now. It's not like the kid is going to preschool with a bottle hanging from his mouth.
You know your child can drink fine from a cup.

Don't listen to those who think speech and teeth alignment will be screwed for life bc your child drinks milk 2x a day from a bottle. Maybe speech and teeth are effected if the bottle was used like a 24/7 pacifier, but it's not, right?

Do you really want to mess around with the extra xaliries, fat, sugar from cheese and yogurt as a sub. Or do the whole strawberry/choc. milk thing? If so, fine. Otherwise let it be.

Seriously? A 2.5 year old is a CHILD not a baby. Cut the cord PP. There is no reason your child should be drinking from a bottle.

There is no reason not to, either. Ours used till 2 or so, then dropped it on her own for good. No issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:V common problem!! Thus why you sometimes see / yr olds drinking from a bottle - we had to buy the nuk transitional sippy to get dd1 off the bottle and on to a sippy

NP here. I bought the Nuk and refused to use it for water. It was only for milk. However, she throws it across the room when she sees it has milk in it. I'm not sure how to fix this either. She'll drink water out of any cup, including ones without lids, but milk only in a bottle. My ped isn't stressed and told me it's a security thing, but I'd still like to move on past the bottles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:V common problem!! Thus why you sometimes see / yr olds drinking from a bottle - we had to buy the nuk transitional sippy to get dd1 off the bottle and on to a sippy

NP here. I bought the Nuk and refused to use it for water. It was only for milk. However, she throws it across the room when she sees it has milk in it. I'm not sure how to fix this either. She'll drink water out of any cup, including ones without lids, but milk only in a bottle. My ped isn't stressed and told me it's a security thing, but I'd still like to move on past the bottles.

Haha mine throws her milk straw cup too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just ask why is it so bad for a 15 month old to drink from a bottle? My 14 month old is the same, refuses to take milk from a sippy cup, but I just figured that was fine. Is there a developmental or medical reason why this is detrimental to her (not trying to be a rabble rouser here, genuinely wondering)?

Can lead to cavities, poor teeth alignment, childhood obesity and more.

Myth.

Our DD's ped was fine with her drinking milk from the bottle well after 12 months. As long as she wasn't sucking from it constantly or falling asleep with it in her mouth/crib, the doctor said it was fine.

In the end, DD drank water from a cup but milk only from a bottle until about 2.5. Yes, 2.5. At that point, she gave it up voluntarily. One day she just said, "bottles are for babies," and put it in the trash. It's been cups ever since.

As for the outcome: She's now six. Drinks about 6-8 oz of milk a day from a cup. No cavities and perfectly aligned teeth. Her dentist even predicts no braces based on the X-rays. And she's athletic with normal BMI.

Some things really aren't that big a deal. Looking back, I'm glad we didn't force a power struggle about the bottle. Or the pacifier, by the way. She dropped both things when she was ready. No harm, no foul.

Thank you for this. It's so nice and refreshing to read comments like this, spoken as a new(ish) mom.