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[quote=Anonymous]Our pediatrician has said that now is the time to get our 1-year-old son off of the bottle. Easier said than done, right?

He drinks out of a sippy cup all day long as long as there's water in it, but he'll only drink milk out of a bottle. Put milk into a sippy cup? Stiff arm. Put milk into an open cup? Stiff arm. Put milk into a sippy cup with a straw? Stiff arm. Give him a sippy cup of water? He'll chug it.

Ok, so we maybe ditch milk then? Wrong. He refuses to finish a meal without milk. He'll start eating a meal, but at some point, during the meal, if he doesn't get his bottle of milk he will cry and cry and cry. We've tried, for several hours, to only offer all the different options containing milk in lieu of a bottle. He just cries so hard until he gags. It's soul-crushing.

How do we get him off the bottle? He's having whole milk, happily, so getting him off formula wasn't an issue at all. He'll drink all the sippy cups with water. He just refuses milk out of a sippy cup.

We've tried:

- distracting him while giving sippy cup
- only offering sippy cup
- many different options of sippy cups and open cups
- the switch-a-roo where he's having a bottle of milk and when he stops for a breath we swap to a sippy cup

What worked for you guys for your LO's who had a difficult time getting off the bottle?
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