Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Bottle Help!
Alright, Dexton turns 20 months this Thursday and he is still on a bottle. I think it's time to get him off it so I need some ideas. Dexton has drank from a sippy from 10 months but I have only allowed water in it so now he doesn't want anything in his sippy but water. Since has turned one I have only let him have his bottle with milk right when he wakes up in the morning and right before he goes to sleep at night and Dexton will only drink really warm milk so thats a problem too. If anyone has some clever ideas how to get him off his bottle plus how to get him to drink cold milk out of a sippy I would really appreciate it. :)
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Our pediatrician just told us to put the bottles into a box and duct tape it all over so it is not easy to open (this is to keep the parents out). Then you just offer him milk in a sippy cup. Don't give him any juice, water, or anything else. He will eventually get thirsty enough that he will drink what you offer him. We did this and were worried about our kids getting dehydrated, but it ended up not being a problem at all. I will say that it is hard to listen to your kid cry, but they do adjust quickly to the change and after a couple of days they don't even seem to care about a bottle. If he still is insistant of not drinking milk in a sippy, you could try a sippy-type cup that has a straw that comes out of it (this is what my sis in law did with her son).
About the warm milk: we never did have much of a problem with that. We just gave our kids cooler and cooler milk until they finally started getting milk straight out of the fridge. We just did it gradually enough that they seemed to not even notice over time.
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