Recommend a SIPPY cup for transition to milk from bottle

[Anonymous]

DD takes water in straw and sippy cups, but will only take milk in a bottle (blame my DH who insisted we only change one thing at a time, argh!). Right now she's getting 1 bottle of breast milk and 2 bottles of cow's milk at daycare, they started trying to give her the cow's milk in a sippy, but she will drink an ounce at most and then refuse it. Daycare then gives her the rest in a bottle. Last week, we tried it the opposite - breast milk in a sippy, but she does the same thing. I don't want to offer her milk in a straw cup yet because with water she takes in too much and it dribbles out. On top of all of that, on weekends at home, she refuses to take cow's milk from me, even in a bottle (she has taken breast milk from me in a bottle in the past, but not recently). So I'm starting to get a little stressed out because I would like to stomp pumping as soon as possible, and start cutting back on nursing sessions on weekends (weekdays she only nurses am/pm).

I'm thinking maybe if we try with a completely different cup that she hasn't used before, maybe it will work. Can you recommend a transitional sippy cup that worked for you?

[Anonymous]

We had good luck with Take and Toss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had good luck with Take and Toss.

+1

[Anonymous]

OP here - unfortunately take and toss is what her daycare has been using. She'll drink an ounce then refuse

I tried nuby and foogo at home - she'll take water, but not milk. Just ordered Nuk and am considering ordering the Nuby 3 stage bottle.

[Anonymous]

Longtime nanny here. I've had the best luck with the Nuk Learner cup. Over the years, several children in my care have refused sippy cups when transitioning from the bottle. This cup worked for every one of them. Good luck!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002UXQRLG?pc_redir=1403112720&robot_redir=1

[Anonymous]

I would try the recommendation from the nanny first, but then try the straw. I get why you don't want to do it, but straws are better for your child's development *and* my kid would only take a straw cup - she found the sippy too frustrating. The straw was easy.

[Anonymous]

We liked the Munchkin click-lock sippy. Few parts, doesn't leak, easy to hold. DD liked water from it and would take milk from it, but does better with milk from a straw cup than milk from a sippy so YMMV. We also like the Nuk sippy that PP recommends.

*Although I love the click-lock sippy, do not get the Munckin click-lock-flip straw cup: it's awful.

FWIW, DD is 13 months. At 12 months we went from breast milk in a bottle to cow milk in a bottle, and then went to cow milk in a sippy from there. Right now she gets a straw cup or sippy during the day, but a bottle first thing in the morning and last at night. Overall milk intake is down, but that's normal and age-appropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Longtime nanny here. I've had the best luck with the Nuk Learner cup. Over the years, several children in my care have refused sippy cups when transitioning from the bottle. This cup worked for every one of them. Good luck!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002UXQRLG?pc_redir=1403112720&robot_redir=1

OP here -- thank you! That's actually the one I just ordered, so hopefully it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We liked the Munchkin click-lock sippy. Few parts, doesn't leak, easy to hold. DD liked water from it and would take milk from it, but does better with milk from a straw cup than milk from a sippy so YMMV. We also like the Nuk sippy that PP recommends.

*Although I love the click-lock sippy, do not get the Munckin click-lock-flip straw cup: it's awful.

FWIW, DD is 13 months. At 12 months we went from breast milk in a bottle to cow milk in a bottle, and then went to cow milk in a sippy from there. Right now she gets a straw cup or sippy during the day, but a bottle first thing in the morning and last at night. Overall milk intake is down, but that's normal and age-appropriate.

Thanks, this is the stage we're at with my DD, too. Switched to cow's milk in a bottle around her one year birthday and it has been about a month since then, so we are trying to transition to a sippy.

I am trying to convince my husband that DD does not need as much cow's milk as breast milk as she was getting (especially since she LOVES yogurt, cheese, and broccoli so is getting plenty of calcium), but he still drinks 2 glasses of milk a day, so it's not something he is willing to accept.

[Anonymous]

Bump. Any other tips?

[Anonymous]

We used the nuk transition bottle/sippy cup - didn't like the one the nanny posted bc it took a lot of effort - but the transition sippy broke the habit for us - we just needed to yank the dr browns bottles and then we were good to go

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Longtime nanny here. I've had the best luck with the Nuk Learner cup. Over the years, several children in my care have refused sippy cups when transitioning from the bottle. This cup worked for every one of them. Good luck!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002UXQRLG?pc_redir=1403112720&robot_redir=1

This one worked best for us too and we tried lots of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Longtime nanny here. I've had the best luck with the Nuk Learner cup. Over the years, several children in my care have refused sippy cups when transitioning from the bottle. This cup worked for every one of them. Good luck!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002UXQRLG?pc_redir=1403112720&robot_redir=1

OP here -- thank you! That's actually the one I just ordered, so hopefully it works.

Yup, this one worked for us, too. We were going from boob to sippy but this is the only one that worked.

[Anonymous]

I think the dribbling thing is pretty normal. Maybe just switch to giving cows milk in a cup so it won't be so sad to see it wasted. My daugher is 20 months and still does the dribble if she isn't really hungry I guess because she thinks it's fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We liked the Munchkin click-lock sippy. Few parts, doesn't leak, easy to hold. DD liked water from it and would take milk from it, but does better with milk from a straw cup than milk from a sippy so YMMV. We also like the Nuk sippy that PP recommends.

*Although I love the click-lock sippy, do not get the Munckin click-lock-flip straw cup: it's awful.

FWIW, DD is 13 months. At 12 months we went from breast milk in a bottle to cow milk in a bottle, and then went to cow milk in a sippy from there. Right now she gets a straw cup or sippy during the day, but a bottle first thing in the morning and last at night. Overall milk intake is down, but that's normal and age-appropriate.

Thanks, this is the stage we're at with my DD, too. Switched to cow's milk in a bottle around her one year birthday and it has been about a month since then, so we are trying to transition to a sippy.

I am trying to convince my husband that DD does not need as much cow's milk as breast milk as she was getting (especially since she LOVES yogurt, cheese, and broccoli so is getting plenty of calcium), but he still drinks 2 glasses of milk a day, so it's not something he is willing to accept.

This is PP. Maybe talk to your DH about iron deficiency anemia in toddlers who get too much milk. I think the recommendation is about 16-20 ounces per day, vs the 24-32 ounces of breast milk our ped recommended when DD was under one year old. It's a big transition, but using the straw or sippy helps slow down the milk intake (as compared to a bottle, which DD just chugs) which helps toddlers eat more real food and get important nutrition that way. For us, DD doesn't drink a lot of milk at day care so we offer it at every meal and when she signs milk; if she drank more milk at day care we'd substitute water more often. Good luck!