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How can I get my child to drink milk out of a cup?

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My son refuses to drink milk out of a cup. He will only drink water from a cup and milk from his bottle. I want to eventually take away his bottle but I am concerned he won't get enough dairy in his diet! Any help, he is also 14 months old.

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  1. Try giving him choc. milk in the cup.  Then dilute it wit white milk. And just keep diluting it more and more until it is all white milk.  I had to do this with water. My son would not drink water, only juice.


  2. take away his bottle and give him a cup with milk, you really should of been putting it in his cup since you started the cup so he'd be used to it, but i'm sure you figured that out, took till my second to get that too.

    just take it away he will eventually drink from the cup

  3. If you want him to drink milk out of his cup then I would suggest just taking the bottles away cold turkey and throwing them out.Put milk in his cup and leave it there for him.Do not give in to his fussing and stand your ground on the no bottle rule now. If you continue to give him milk in a cup only and no bottles he will eventually catch on to the fact that bottles are a thing of the past and the cup is now what he will have to use for now on. Just make sure to give it to him and leave it there,he will drink it when he gets thirsty.Also if it sits more than 2 hours(if its not hot) to throw out the old milk and give him fresh milk.

    Good luck...its hard,but worth it

  4. start diluting the milk in the bottle, but putting regular milk in the cup. as a baby he should come to the conclusion that the bottle is making the milk taste bad but the cup does not. if that fails wait a little longer and try again. Plus he can always get his dairy from cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt and things like that.

  5. when he's thirsty, ive him his bottle with milk in it, but sprinkle hot pepper on the sucking part. he will want a drink, so hand him some milk in a cup, keep doing this til he learns that the sucking part of the bottle is hot!

  6. add a little sugar to give it taste i think that will help

  7. A lot of babies do this.. the milk is more comforting from a bottle.  Does he drink from a straw?  Try a cup with a built in straw and see if that helps.  Also, does he see you or anyone else drink milk from a cup?  It may help if he sees other kids or toddlers drinking milk from a cup.  

  8. There are cups that look like bottles.  The name of them is Nuby.  The mouth peace is rubber like a bottle nipple.  You can find them at Wall-Mart.  You could try them and throw his bottles away.  Tell him that the nuby cup is his new bottle.  Don't let him see any of his old bottles.  Here is a pic of what they look like.  That way you know if he will even try them.  https://www.goodforthekids.com/item_imag...

  9. Stop giving him a bottle.  He will get what he needs out of the foods he eats.  You are allowing him to control what he gets rather than the other way around.  By letting him have the bottle you are enabling his dependency upon it.  

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