Transitioning from bottle to sippy cup

[DaisyMae08]

 I recently weaned my son from nursing (he was getting bottles at daycare and nursing at home).  He is 14 months old and now gets all of his milk in bottles.  He will drink water from a sippy cup, but will not drink milk from it (not more than a sip or two anyway).  Would you worry about it at his age?  I would love to hear at what age you switched from bottle to sippy and how you actually made that transition.  I'm thinking maybe trying one feeding at a time...but not sure if that's most effective.  I also wouldn't be said to not worry about this at all right now but the pediatrician (I know, I know) said to try to do it by 15 months and others have made comments too. 

[PiperLime]

I would love to see any experiences as well! My DS is 14 mo and loves his bottle still. 

[DaisyMae08]

Well, I found a "3 stage" sippy cup that we're going to try.  http://www.diapers.com/p/nuby-3-stage-feeding-system-8-oz-1-pk-21198  I'd be happy to post back to let you know how it goes! 

[brneyedmama]

DD is 18 months and LOVES her bottles of "milkie"  She gets one at nap time and one at bedtime (before rather, not allowed to go to bed with them) but it wasn't that long ago that she was getting it throughout the day.  At about 14 months or so we decided to slowly start cutting back on the bottle, offering more solid snacks throughout the day and it took a while.  She also loves her sippy, but only for water, also has no interest in juice.  Once she started really bulking up on solids, she simply didn't need the bottle throughout the day, and now it's 50/50 need for filling up before rest time and comfort.  It doesn't bother me that she uses a bottle, she's also a paci user at bedtime which I also think is fine.

being a thumb sucker my entire childhood, I have horrible memories of my parents/teachers/pediatrician making this HUGE deal about my security attachment and I don't agree with it.  One day, the paci and bottle fairies will come collect all of the artificial nipples in our house and give them to the needy children in the world who don't have any :)  this will be a decision that she can understand and even help with and feel good about being a big girl.  Until then, I'm not going to take away a security thing for her, I don't think it really causes any harm.  As long as they're eating properly, not bulking up on the milk, and you're offering other alternatives I think it's fine.  That's just my two cents.  Let us know how it goes!!!

[Erin77]

We switched to straw cups for water when my son was a year and he would have a very occasional sippy cup of pumped milk at the sitter's- he didn't really like to drink milk from a cup. When he weaned at 16 months, we just didn't give him any cow's milk in cups, because he didn't drink it. My ped said that he got plenty of calcium from full-fat yogurt and green vegetables, etc. (My husband and I don't drink milk either.) Maybe you could try a break from milk for a week or two, just use sippies with water and then after he's kind of used to that, try milk in the sippy? It won't hurt him to go a little bit without milk and it might break the association. Then he could "reconsider" milk as a regular beverage that would be OK in a sippy.