Need help getting DD from bottle to sippy cup

[Minnie824]

My DD is 14 months old, and we're in the process of trying to get her off of the bottle and to use her sippy cup. She uses the cup for meals with water, and she doesn't drink any juice, but when it comes to milk, she cries and won't drink it if its not in her bottle. I tried today, to give her an option and put a cup bottom with the bottle top, and the bottle bottom with the cup top - she chose the one with the bottle top of course. Theres no way to try to trick her into it, so does anyone have any advice other than just letting her cry and not giving her a bottle? I hate to just take it away all at once like that. Thanks for any help.

 

[Spinning]

You could try a couple of different option. She should if I remember correctly be going to her 15 month check up. If so take all the bottles to the doctor and have her give them to the dr. I know this has worked with friends in the past with the binky. Telling her this is the big girl check up.
I would also call the Ped. and see how much milk she needs a day. Does she eat a lot of dairy/ yogurt/ cheese? If they feel she is getting enough then bag the milk for a short period so that way she isn't using the bottle at all. You could also tell her if she wants her bottle then she can only have water in it.
Or make her sit in one place and one place only when using the bottle. If she moves from that spot then she has to put the bottle away.
Also those new advent sippy cups look interesting. Maybe try one of those. It looks like it is similar to a bottle (the sippy part) but you hold it like a cup it is short and squatty.
good luck this is hard but with time it will pass!
Oh one more thing, straws are alway kewl! Buy a really neat straw and see if she will drink using that.

 

[Kallison]

I never had a problem getting my kids off the bottle, we went right to cups with straws. I would make them a really thick milkshake and they learned to sip up the straw right away. From that point on the bottles were gone, usually around 12 mos. The sooner you get rid of the bottles the better. But then again my kids were thumb suckers so they got their pacififying done that way. Good luck. They won't be drinking bottles in Kindergarten, so don't stress too much.

 

[Pin Wizard]

We did it cold turkey. DS didn't have any problem with it. The bottles went out one night after he was asleep. The next day was sippie cups.

 

[mivvers]

The cups with the flip-up straws seemed to work best for my two. We made a big production about putting the bottles out with the garbage one morning when DD was in a good mood, waved bye-bye and all that. Of course, she freaked at night time but extra cuddles with the reminders were all she needed. I may have been lucky, though.

But I just have to say in response to Kallison, friends of ours have a four year old who is in the preschool program at Montessori who STILL drinks a bottle every day .... it's ridiculous....I was looking after her one day and she started asking for a "hot bottle" at 10 o'clock in the morning!!!!! I told her I'd warm up some milk for her in a cup, and she threw a fit. My friend got very defensive when I mentioned it to her later, saying it's the only way she can get her to drink milk...sheesh...my friend should have been doing three years ago what you're doing now!!! Don't worry, just be peristent and eventually she'll catch on. Good luck!!