Bubba won't drink milk from beaker!

morello · Apr 12, 2011 2:58PM

Anyone else come across this and got some advice.

Bubba drinks water absolutely fine from a beaker and I leave a soft spouted beaker of water near her bed at night and she helps herself if she is thirsty during the night.

But, I cannot get her to drink her milk from a beaker! She is coming up to 14 months, I tried when she was 12 months and began to worry about her milk intake as she flat out refused unless it was in a bottle. At the same time I tried cows milk which again she would flat out refuse to drink (despite having had it on her breakfast for months now!). She also seemed to be being sick a little after drinking a little of the cows milk.

Anyhoo, I stopped and now I'm thinking I will try to get her to take her formula from a sippy cup again.

Any ideas, I thought I might try a straw?

piggypops · Apr 1, 2011 4:32PM

for us it was trial and error finding the one he will take milk out of, we have these, the top for milk/tes and bottom for water/juice

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tommee-Tippee-Active-Kids-Soft-Spout-Cup-BPA-Free-BNIP_W0QQitemZ140425853711QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=222473887740&rvr_id=222473887740&cguid=128f2d5e12f0a47a2f0169a1ffd91bea

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Babies-R-Us/Feeding/Weaning/Cups/Tommee-Tippee-First-Beaker-Blue(0078487)?cm_mmc=Feed-_-Google Base-_-N/A-_-Tommee Tippee First Beaker - Blue

flimpo · Apr 1, 2011 4:43PM

We started the transition by getting him to take cows milk from his bottle (which luckily for us was fairly easy) and then introduced it in a beaker. I agree with piggy pops its trial and error on beakers. We ended up with about 8 different types of cups!!

For the sicky after cows milk it might be a bit rich for LO so i'd just try it a bit watered down and see how that goes.

Good luck xx

Coco-25 · Apr 2, 2011 2:31PM

Sam loves his active straw cup so definitely try that. x

nessie76 · Apr 4, 2011 7:58AM

My Lo is 18 months and had dropped down to hardly drinking any milk.. Before he was taking it out of a sippy cup. We tried a straw in his cup and he loves it.

The last couple of weeks he has been drinking a whole cup of milk at breakfast time, with his straw.

iwantanotherpls · Apr 4, 2011 3:54PM

sorry to gatecrash your thread but i have the same issue with lizzie who is 15 months. she will only drink milk from a bottle!

didnt have the problem with dd1.

so a straw might be the way to go?? i had it in my head that a straw was as bad for their teeth as the bottle?? dont ask me where i got this from i coupldnt have dremt it!

morello · Apr 10, 2011 10:33AM

Sorted, i found a "bottle to beaker" bottle type thing in Sainsburys and we are officially off the bottles, it has a softish spout so not as hard as her beakers and still bottle shaped with handles.

So far so good, once she's used these for a bit i'll try a proper beaker I think but for the mo she's fine

kayssis · Apr 12, 2011 2:58PM

Ds is coming up for 1 (at the end of the month!) and we have exactly the same problem. I really want to get him off bottles but if it's just bedtime (and morning at the mo) I'm not going to force it- when my mum stopped giving my sister bottles she stopped drinking milk, she's now 21 and still won't drink milk, cereal, tea or coffee lol! xx

Bubba won't drink milk from beaker!

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