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have you tried this sippy?

http://www.amazon.com/NUK-Disney-Winnie-Ounces-Silicone/dp/B005A3OGR0

My LO was the same way but took to this one right away and loves it. A lot of the reviews said it was a great bottle to sippy transition cup.

If it counts for anything we are in the exact same spot. Two bottles/day (wake up and bedtime) and she drinks like a pro from her straw cup, but will not drink milk in it (cold, warm, anything) like she does with the bottle. Same routine, everything, and no go. We have given up for now and will continue to roll with it, and try again in another month or two!

@2PeasinaPod: DS was EBF and wouldn't take a bottle, so I used these for him to practice with when he was really little (like 4 months) and it was an easy way to wean him when he was about 15 months.

Good luck! They're usually at Walmart for less than $3, too, so I usually grab a couple when I'm there. I'm stocking up for LO.

@MUI831: DS opts for chocolate milk every day at school. I figure the benefits of the milk outweigh what little bit of sugar and chocolate he gets from it. He does drink white milk at home, but I'm not at school to stop him, so I accept it.

@2PeasinaPod: we are in the same boat! DD just turned one a few weeks ago and I started trying to give her milk in her straw cup that she drinks water from and she refuses. I even got the Nuk sippy but she took one sip from it and refused that too. I hope you have better luck with it than I did! I'm just going to keep trying and hopefully one day she'll take it. Bottle weaning is hard!

I know this is a really old post but wanted to revisit it--because I'm now having this problem.

My little guy turned 1 a week ago and the pediatrician advised us that we should have him weaned off of all bottles by his 15 month appt.

Up until recently he's been taking 3 bottles a day--originally they were half breast milk half formula and in the last month they've been transitioning towards including whole cows milk and most recently towards all WCM He takes the WCM bottles fine--slowly--and frequently doesn't finish them--but fine. He was taking about a total of 10-13 ozs a day. He also drinks water throughout the day and is a big eater so I've never been worried about him finishing bottles.

But after his 1 year appt last week, we switched his "bottles" to sippee cups (either the nuk sippee cup or the 360 cup--I've been unsuccessful getting him to figure out a straw cup so far--but he take water from either the nuk or the 360). And I now cannot get him to drink more than just an initial sip (and then he flings the cup and refuses to touch it). He'll still drink water out of the sippees/360 though.

Then last night my husband made him a all-formula sippee before bed (we did a pantry cabinet clean-out and found a single serving packet of formula that he wanted to use up) and he DOWNED it.

Could he just not like whole cows milk that much? My pediatrician seemed unconcerned--told us that whole cow's milk is a good source of vitamins and calcium but by no means the only source and if he is getting vitamins/calcium through other food--then no worries.

But what do you ladies think? Any suggestions? Should I just not worry about whether he drinks WCM or not? Or should I continue to try to get him to drink WCM from the sippee/360? Or just let him have it in a bottle maybe just once a day?