Well, about a week ago, Rylees friend, Lexie got a new sippy cup and it was alot like a bottle.
It gave me the idea to try it with Rylee, so I went out and bought her one.
Thinking I would be able to trick her into drinking it and thinking it was a bottle.
She knew right away it was a "Cup", I kept telling her, "no, it's a bottle", but she knew better.
She kept correcting me.
So I keep giving it to her with milk in it and she will not drink it consistantly like she does a bottle.
But when I put gatorade in it she drinks it all.
She just doesn't like milk enough to drink out of a cup.
She has been saying "hungry" alot more since all this started, so she is eating as much food as me.
Before when she was on a bottle, all she cared about was getting her food by a bottle.
Im amazed by how much she can actually eat now.
Im not sure how much milk she actually needs at this point.
Although I know it is bad for her teeth and I had actually already got her off of going to bed with a bottle before,
I now give her a sippy cup of milk to keep while she goes to sleep.
That's the only way I can get some milk in her, because she is desperate for something to drink.
And she knows she can either lay there and do nothing or drink her milk.
I will get her off of a night feeding once I can get her to drink milk in the day.
Yesterday I even tried giving her 1 part milk and 3 parts gatorade,
she still didn't drink it.
She's so picky.
One thing I really like about it is before she constantly had a bottle in her hands, when I was trying to take pictures of her I couldn't pry it away from her.
Now she isn't attached to anything.
I think she's even almost forgotten about the "BABA", she hasn't said it herself in a couple of days.
I just wish this was a little easier or I wish I was seeing progress.
I want her to drink milk!
Have you tried putting a little chocolate or strawberry syrup in the milk? Not sure how you feel about sugar, but Summer usually only drank chocolate milk. Sounds like you are a great mom! I'm so proud of you!
ReplyDeletebtw - love that pic!
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