I'm feeling a little lost. DS will take a straw cup just fine, but I'm scared to make a complete transition since he tends to leave a bunch at the bottom of his cup. What did the process look like for you?
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i offered at meals and then would hide the bottles (out of sight, out of mind) and offer before naps until she started taking it more and more. finally she wasn't crying for bottles anymore (i would give in after awhile) and voila, fully on straw cups. Once she stopped seeing them, she kind of forgot about them! Our ped said if you make the transition before 15 months, it's easier because they forget about it better. Anyways, it wasn't a big deal for us, thankfully! And as far as leftover milk, i just stuck it right back in the fridge. It's homogenized *shrug*
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Gah. I'm in the same spot. She was doing so well two weeks ago, only a bottle once a day and then my dad went into the ICU, my husband threw my rules out the window and now she won't take her milk in her straw cup
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@grizz: When did he "get" the straw cup? M still just mostly chews on the straw!
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She had already been drinking water from the straw when we transitioned at 12 months. The first few days I'd let her finish her milk from the bottle (whatever was left in the cup) but by the 4th day or so she was strictly drinking from the straw cup.
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@lawbee11: He saw his little friend, a 14 month old he always plays with, do it about a month and a half ago and he has done it ever since. Before that he just chewed! The cup he stole from his friend was a Playtex straw cup, so I bought a few of those.
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The transition was going poorly and it just got worse. LO loves to drink water from any kind of sippy but she freaked out on the idea of milk in a sippy. After a few weeks of cold turkey no bottle we finally got her to drink an ounce or so at a time from the sippy cup. Then she got sick (RSV, then pneumonia, then HFM all within two weeks). She won't take the bottle or sippy cup now. She takes milk straight from the tap only.
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@lawbee11: R didn't get get till like 10 months. Before then she would chew and drink a little.
We offered with meals and then at 12 months went cold turkey on bottles. It took a week or two for her to get that is where/when she gets milk. We moved to a sippy though cause I hated cleaning milk with the straw and she will drink 10ozs in a sitting now if we let her.
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We started with the Zoli-bot just for water. We wanted her get used to it. Then we slowly weaned the bottles.
We bought Playtex straw cup for milk only and she liked it. Good luck!
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@lawbee11: a friend recommended a Rubbermaid Litterless juice container for BF babies. My LO got it right away. They're super cheap ($2!) and really easy to clean!
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We didn't have much of a choice. Daycare doesn't do bottles in the toddler room so they pretty much did it for us.
We started offering water first and once he got that down, we did milk. He didn't drink much at first but he still nurses a lot so I didn't stress. We tossed the bottles at 12m when he couldn't have them at daycare anymore and he didn't care.
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I think because my son was used to pouches, he caught on pretty quickly to the straw cup. He was definitely drinking well out of them by 10 months. We never used a sippy and he hadn't had a bottle since maybe 4 months.
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