Tips on how to transition a toddler from bottle to sippy cup?

Hello!

I would like to know how they transitioned toddlers from being bottled fed to a sippy cup. My son loves his milk, but have been trying to give it to him from a sippy cup and he will not drink it (he only takes it from him bottle). He drinks his water from a straw cup, but when I tried this with the milk once again he wouldn’t drink. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

Posted by Claire, 11/8/13

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- - BellaB said
  - 22 Oct 2020
    7:49 pm
I just kept offering it, along with saying things like “you’re growing up now” to encourage him. I can’t remember having any real problem with it.
- - 191joannes said
  - 22 Feb 2015
    10:32 am
some good advice thanks
- - ljsalomon said
  - 25 Jan 2014
    9:53 pm
How is he going now?
- - kathryn said
  - 29 Dec 2013
    7:53 pm
we had a soft sippy cup first (a non spill one) and once she got used to that moved to a hard one
- - coppin85 said
  - 28 Dec 2013
    8:54 pm
did you have any success?
- - meltingmoment said
  - 06 Dec 2013
    11:03 am
Hope some of these tips have been able to help
- - mggarner said
  - 28 Nov 2013
    11:10 am
How are you going with it now?
- - mggarner said
  - 27 Nov 2013
    1:34 pm
What tips did you like?
- - meltingmoment said
  - 30 Oct 2013
    7:47 pm
How have you gone – any luck?
- - kjgarner said
  - 28 Oct 2013
    10:33 am
Keep trying, if he’s thirsty he will take the Sippy cup and will start to like it
- - snoopy said
  - 25 Oct 2013
    2:27 pm
Keep trying with the sippy and straw cups.
- - sallty said
  - 31 Aug 2013
    8:44 am
Have you tried a cup? My son wouldn’t take milk out of a sippy cup, but he would drink it from a cup, obviously with me holding it and tipping it for him as he was too young to do it himself.
- - lynzstevo said
  - 29 Aug 2013
    5:48 pm
I’d try a soft spouted drink bottle, he might prefer it as its more like a bottle than the strawed cups.
- - maureen3 said
  - 26 Aug 2013
    7:45 pm
tell him he a big boy and throw away the bottles
- - a-edwards said
  - 20 Aug 2013
    8:48 am
I agree with traci .. Give him no choice
- - traceyi said
  - 18 Aug 2013
    8:27 pm
give him no choice & things may soon change.
- - tahlia w said
  - 13 Aug 2013
    10:31 pm
Get the ones with the soft teat
- - haldem337 said
  - 13 Aug 2013
    10:10 pm
Persistence is definitely the key… It pretty much comes with the territory for us Mums doesn’t it 😉
- - cenewell said
  - 13 Aug 2013
    4:00 pm
Thanks everyone for the tips – some great ideas, looks like I’ll need to persevere a bit more and hopefully he will come around! Thanks again!
- - earthlydelites said
  - 13 Aug 2013
    12:07 pm
maybe get him to pick a new cup he likes?