Switching to beakers
Hey ladies
Any tips on how to swap from bottles to beakers for milk? Dylan has 2 bottles a day and were keen to switch him from these to 2 beakers a day instead.
We tried this evening he point blank refused the beaker, screamed in protest and took no milk. Its like he's scared of it, but he will take juice from it during the day. We will try again in the morning when he is less tired but wondered if anyone had any tips on how to make the transition easier? I did try covering the beaker but its the teat or lack of it he hated, we even tried letting him play with it but nothing worked!
Please help ?
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Any tips on how to swap from bottles to beakers for milk? Dylan has 2 bottles a day and were keen to switch him from these to 2 beakers a day instead.
We tried this evening he point blank refused the beaker, screamed in protest and took no milk. Its like he's scared of it, but he will take juice from it during the day. We will try again in the morning when he is less tired but wondered if anyone had any tips on how to make the transition easier? I did try covering the beaker but its the teat or lack of it he hated, we even tried letting him play with it but nothing worked!
Please help ?
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Mn88 will try that but he will drink juice from it, he just point blank refuses to take milk from it. Maybe he's just being stubborn (
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I'd still offer the bottles at the normal times too until he was drinking it ok from the beaker, to make sure he was getting enough. He gave up bottles completely at 11 months.
A bit of a faff and won't necessarily work for you, but it's what worked for us.
I will perservere but im really at a loss!
I just read this in my Baby Whisperer Book...
"Start by offering two cups of liquid at his meal. In one, have an Oz of the liquid you've been giving him (jiuce or water) and in the other pour 2 oz of milk. After he has a sip of the water/juice, take that cup away and try to give him the milk. If he refuses, leave it and try an hour later. Try sitting him on your knee for a drink.
Be persistent, make it fun and don't think of it as something your LO needs to learn IMMEDIATELY."
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Well today has been a little more successful he's had 3/4 of a beaker throughout the day and then another quarter at bedtime. He did have a protest at bedtime but he at least took some.
Its not helpful that he's teething so his food intake is down anyway, however beaker has helped in the sense he can at least chew on it
I will literally try any method to make this as easy as possible for him, I thought we'd have this issue when we got rid of the dummy but that wasn't even missed! Thank you ladies for all your suggestions more are always welcome
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good luck xx i think if you keep doing what your doing, offering him the cup and then giving the bottle too he wont see it as the 'enemy' and will hopefully eventually take the milk from it so wont need it from the bottle xx