Milk into sippy cup ...?
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Topic: Milk into sippy cup ...?
Posted By: Nikki
Subject: Milk into sippy cup ...?
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 10:26am
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At what age did you stop using bottles and move to milk in sippy cups?
I mentioned to daycare that I was trying to get him to have his daytime bottle in a sippy cup now, and they asked if Plunket told me to do this (no, I think I read it in a book, and have some paranoid concern about not wanting a bottle obsessed 3 year old! haha). I thought some time between 12-18 months would be a good time but maybe I'm wrong? All the kids in Jakes area at daycare (12-22months) still have bottles. But I'm sure I've read on here about toddlers going to sippy cups well before 2 years? Wouldn't it be easier if they came with manuals?! Thanks! PS - Jake will drink the milk in a sippy cup but not as much as he would in a bottle ... he definitely still prefers the bottle I think. ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 10:53am
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I have stages of trying to move Spencer to a cup but it hasn't happened successfully yet. I read that they shouldn't have bottles after 12 months so I am keen to get rid of them ASAP. We definitely won't be using them at 18 months (in a few months I will probably be eating my words...hahaha).
I also saw a thing on TV with a paed saying how important it was to drop bottles at 12 months but absolutely by 18, which is why 18 months is my new cut off. She was talking to a mum whose nearly 4 year old was still having bottles  ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 11:15am
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They can have a sippy cup as soon as you are ready to offer them one. There is no set age and you are right that it is easier to remove the bottle rather than later. Alize has been on a sippy cup or straw cup since 5 mths for water as he was breastfeed. Sippy cups are what a lot of mums use when heading back to work but their babies dont want to take a bottle. Best of luck with your decision... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 12:17pm
| We give water in a sippy straw bottle/cup and he loves that but drinking out of a sippy cup is a nightmare. I'm not in any huge hurry to ditch the bottle. It works fine for us and I figure that as he drops his midday bottle he's only have a bottle morning and night and when he can master a cup better I'll deal with it then |
Posted By: LeahandJoel
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 1:35pm
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Leah has milk in the morning in a sippy cup, this is the only thing I give her in a sippy cup. She has water during the day from a botle with a straw and a bottle of milk at bedtime. The amount in the bottle is slowly getting less and less. She did used to have milk at lunchtime from a sippy cup but stopped drinking it so I stopped giving it to her. Sometimes she drinks all the breakfast one and sometimes she hardly touches it. -------------  
 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 2:45pm
i gave myboys sippy cups once they were sitting up in a highchair. they used to just play with them at first but they got the idea pretty quickly. mind you mine didnt have bottles tho...(unless you count a pump water bottle  )------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 4:58pm
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I should have said - hes had a sippy cup for water since about 5-6 months (when started solids) and has used a straw sippy cup for about 2 months now -- so my question is not about him drinking out of one - just about using it instead of a bottle for his milk. He is down to just one bottle during the day and one night bottle too (as recommended by plunket) so it was just the one daytime milk drink I was looking to change initially.
Do you know why the pead said they shouldn't have bottles after 12 months?? Just seems weird that daycare were a bit against me changing him over, and all the other kids there still have bottles (all older than Jake)?? ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 9:15pm
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we did it this week....stopped daytime bottles of formula last weekend....replaced them with sippy cups of milk and DC continued all week....diddt miss her bottles at all....
we still do morning and evening bottle...she wont let me drop those and thats ok... she had used a sippy cup for water for ages...she nearly 17 months old.... |
Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 02 August 2008 at 9:41pm
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Ashleigh has just turned 2 and she still has a bottle of milk at night before bed. She drinks her water out of a straw bottle or normal cup during the day. I've tried offering her milk in various different ways but she will only drink it out of a bottle. I'm not too worried about it at the moment. ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 12:18am
Gina won't take her milk any other way than from a bottle. Water she drinks from both sippy cup/straw but not milk  I'm not too worried either - she's on 2 bottles at the moment, morning & night------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 7:38am
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It was to do with teeth and speech, sucking on an artificial nipple isn't good when they are that little bit older.
We are the same Nikki, Spencer has been drinking his water out of the sippy cup for ages but he isn't keen on having the milk that way. He either just messes around and doesn't have any or he does drink but sometimes ends up gulping at it and then doesn't drink as much. I think he probably just needs a bit more practice. We are still on 3 milk feeds a day as well, I have tried dropping the lunch time one and some days its fine but others he just ends up wanting it at 4pm and then doesn't really want his night one so for now I have just kept it at 3. He eats a ridiculous amount of solids so I don't think he is filling up on the milk and at the lunch one will often only have 50ml but is just enough to satisfy him till the evening. -------------
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Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 12:15pm
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Thanks for the explaination - now I can tell daycare why I'm trying to change him over. I just checked the book I had read too (Oh baby by Kathy Fray) - and it said to start changing them in those few months after they turn 1, and definitely by 18 months ... so looks like its similar advice.
I had no probs dropping him down to 2 milk feeds/day - he did it naturally at 11.5 months, so a couple of weeks before he was meant to, but I wasn't worried as he has big bottles (240-260mls) plus eats quite a bit of yoghurt and loves cheese. I'll work on the daytime milk feed first, and worry about the nighttime bottle later I think! ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 1:11pm
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wow those are impressive bottles!
Daniel only has 180ml in the morning, 100ml after lunch and then 220-240ml at night. |
Posted By: Spudling
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 1:55pm
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Cailin had her milk in a bottle right through until I stopped giving her a milk drink at night which was when she was 3. I beleive that the main reason to stop the bottle is because kids tend to walk around with the teat inbetween their teeth and also take a lot longer to drink so the milk sits on their teeth longer so can lead to more decay etc. I just never let Cailin muck around
Also I have heard that it is to do with movement of their teeth and speech etc, in my humble opinion I can't see how 3-4mins a day can really make any difference to how teeth grow...this is just my humble opinion mind you, no major research has gone into that statement
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:38pm
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im sure ellas milk and all that formula is why she is stocky at moment....She was having 4 x 220 mls of formula per day....and when sick would demand an extra one! Now she has 2x 220mls formula and 2 sippy cups milk (180-200mls) as well as at least 2 sippys of water....roll on toilet training cause we use a LOT of nappies as a result!
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Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 04 August 2008 at 11:32am
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I wonder how it could really impact on speech etc too ... but I'm going with the theory that it will be easier to remove the bottle now than later.
I've also heard lying down and drinking isn't good if they're prone to ear infections - so thats another reason I'd like to get him sitting up with a cup to drink his milk. Bombshell - they only need 500mls of milk at this stage (or dairy equivalent) otherwise they could not eat enough food, therefore not get enough other nutrients in food. Thats why plunket say 2 milk feeds per day after 12 months. Jake would drink more if I gave him more bottles (but wouldn't be so hungry for snacks/meals), but I don't offer it. Stacey - I wonder if he really does drink the whole 240mls at daycare - they write full bottle in his book, but to be honest the last few weeks he has started only having about 180-200mls for his daytime bottle at home. And when hes sick he doesn't always drink 240-260 at night either. But his total per day if you include milk on cereal is always over 500mls. I used a sippy spout on a bottle yesterday and he drank about 200mls, so yay, we will do that for a week or so then try the sippy cup again.  ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: Shorty
Date Posted: 04 August 2008 at 11:46am
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My boys has a bottle at bed time and he is now 2, he has had a cup during the day for a while now.
Maybe I should look at changing the night time bottle...to a sippy cup? I don't know as he has it in bed in the dark..... ------------- http://www.alterna-tickers.com"> 
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