My 15 months baby wants to have milk from feeding bottle. Tried sippy cup and others but waste. Please provide tips to make her forget feeding bottle and take from cup.
Baby Help Line Response:
Hi!
From the title of your problem, I guess that you most of all want your baby to stop feeding at night? Or is it the bottle that is your biggest issue?
At the age of around 15 months, many babies have quite a strong view on what they want and they show it! While this is a natural development, it can be hard to know how to deal with it. So if she really likes her bottle she won’t give it up without a big fight!
To get rid of the bottle, I’d suggest you start with introducing the cup at daytime. There are a few tricks you can use to make her want to try it:
Make sure it is easy to drink from. Try it yourself to see how hard it is to get the liquid out. Some no-spill cups are quite hopeless even for adults to drink from. Consider giving her a usual mug (not a no-spill one), but still a baby cup with handles and lid.
Let her use the cup as a toy to get used to it.
Put some liquid in the cup that she really can’t resist, like formula or juice.
Use the cup yourself without offering it to her, to make her curious.
Meet other babies that use sippy cups, so that she can watch others using it.
If you have a fight over her current cup, buy a new one that doesn’t look the same and have a fresh start with all the tips above.
If your baby really hates a sippy cup anyway, consider a cup without a lid. She will spill more, but since it is easier to drink from, she might accept it easier. One of my kids were like that. Hated the sippy cup, but gladly drank from a regular cup AND learned quite fast how to drink from it.
Once she has started to accept the cup, take away the bottle at daytime first. When that works, try offering the cup at night too. It is very possible that your baby will stop feeding at night, if she is not offered her beloved bottle.
If this doesn't work and your baby continues to refuse a cup, get back to me and we'll work on a plan to help your baby stop feeding at night anyway.
My baby was like that. What I did was to offer her water in her bottle at night. I never thought that it would work, but it did. She stopped eating at night without being very sad or anyting. Then you don't really need to take the bottle away, just don't offer milk or formula at night.
Jan 28, 2008
GO FOR STRAWS by: Anonymous
Those sippy cups are really hard to drink from - use the ones that have straws that they can drink from without tipping over their head. A lot of times the baby is just frustrated with trying to get liquid out and they know the bottles work just fine so will be very fussy. My son was soooo fussy with sippy cups, then i saw somebody using the straw cups and it was like the burden had been lifted. no more bottles.
May 11, 2009
Baby wants feeding at night by: Anonymous
Hi Ladies
Mine is a nightmare,I have a 2 year old baby and have been trying to make him to stop feeding a bottle at night but all he does is cry and i mean he screams and that is really not nice and I have also tried to use a cup it doesn`t work.I really need a plan on that PLEASE HELP!!!
Anonymous
Jun 11, 2009
baby stop feeding at night by: Anonymous
My baby was a nightmare like i said,i finally managed to make him stop feeding at night.I use to give him kids rooibos tea but that night i decided not to make it for him and hey it wasn`t easy because he kept on waking up crying for it almost the whole night but i just ignored him and i am telling you it worked very well because the following night he slept the whole night and till today we sleep like angels with my babyboy,so ladies i suggest that u give it a try even though it is not so easy but it worked brilliantly for me.
