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miami85

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 9:45 am

...drink from a bottle/sippy cup/cup. Not water, not juice, not milk, not breastmilk.

Basically I didn't give her a bottle over pesach last year since she was so young and it wasn't worth the hassle of pumping over pesach and she forgot how, and since then we've tried here and there, but she never took a bottle--like never allowed one in her mouth.

Then the formula shortage and the few times we tried she would spit out the formula.

So now I'm basically ready to be done with nursing, but she refuses all other liquids.

I have other kids who refused a bottle until I weaned them, but they would at least drink water from a cup.

Should I just go "cold turkey" on her now?

mushkamothers

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 9:49 am

She can't drink from a cup? My babies are drinking sips of water from like 9 months. How does she drink water?
I have one kid who never took a bottle or pacifier which worked fine for me anyways but he also physically couldn't, I feel like it's bc he has a tongue tie. But he always drank from a cup

BrisketBoss

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 10:02 am

I am confused as well. Babies of every age drink from open cups. Younger ones need some help with holding/supporting but the drinking motion comes naturally and hydration is needed for survival. Even newborns and premies having trouble with nipples are fed from spoons and open cups.

amother

Seashell

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 10:03 am

My babies also drink from cups. Only in the car and at bedtime they get water in a sippy cup

amother

Burntblack

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 10:03 am

My kids will drink from cups pretty early on. I don't do sippy cups or bottles. I will teach her how to drink from a straw and make sure it's always put a straw in the cups she's drinking in.

Hashem_Yaazor

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 10:06 am

My almost one year old doesn't take bottles for nursing (he did a few times in the summer at a few months old and one day in the winter when I was sick) but took to a cup totally fine. She's eating solids normally?
So then flavor shouldn't make a difference.

I started with weighted straw cups.

No reason to quit nursing. She'll suffer and you'll suffer and add much more stress. She'll get there...

Try a small medicine cup for her to lap up maybe?

honey36

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 10:10 am

I also find easiest to start with straw drinking. If she can't figure it out- there is a method to help her learn. Basically you hold some liquid in the straw using a vacuum (cover other side of straw) then let it go in her mouth. Sorry, it's very simple but hard to explain. You can look on youtube.

First time I saw that method, I highly doubted it would work, but it did for all my kids! They quickly learn how to suck on a regular straw.

amother

Jade

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 10:17 am

Try a straw cup with apple sauce or yogurt on the tip. She needs to start drinking water regardless of the nursing status.

amother

Cadetblue

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 10:41 am

Bump!
My one yr olqd wouldnt take a bottle either . My greatest issue though is her getting extremely constipated from solids without enough liquids.

miami85

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 7:33 pm

She turns her nose at cups, she just wont even try. She only nurses so she gets her liquid that way. When we traveled we would have to feed her by syringe. We got her to drink from an open bottle once, but she would turn her head away at future attempts. It's driving us nuts.

amother

DarkViolet

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 7:41 pm

Try a spoon. Then a sippy cup with a spout or straw.

miami85

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 7:43 pm

mushkamothers wrote:

She has no tongue tie. She has one of the cleanest tongues I've seen in my kids

She won't take a pacifier either.

Stars

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 7:44 pm

Try this- Take a juice box, water it down at least half, and spray some into her mouth. Once she gets the taste of it she’ll probably want more and then you can work from there down to water in a cup.

miami85

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 7:46 pm

amother DarkViolet wrote:

Try a spoon. Then a sippy cup with a spout or straw.

She hates spoons--she turns her head away at spoons. She prefers forks--strangely enough, or using her hands/fingers.

amother

Foxglove

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 7:56 pm

My first had lots of feeding issues. He was tube fed as a newborn (preemie), had a very sensitive gag reflex, and lots of food aversions. He's in his teens now (and still a picky but healthy eater!), but if he were born now I think he'd get an ARFID diagnoses. I used to cry after many mealtimes; there's something so frightening for a mom, so primal, about not being able to nurish your baby. We worked with amazing feeding specialists. The biggest thing I learned was to back off. I'd say stop trying so hard. Babys learn through opportunity, modeling, and fun. Expose her to lots of fun cups, straws, drink pouches, open cups. Give her really tasty liquids- diluted juice, milk with some chocolate syrup, fruit smoothies. Let her make a mess. Let her see you, her dad, her siblings, drinking from straws and cups. Put little toys in the bottom of her cup to encourage her to get her hands and face wet. Chances are the toys will go in her mouth, she'll get a taste of the juice or milk, and will want more. Let her 'feed' her little menchies. For me, the most important peice was staying calm. I used to approach mealtimes with so much apprehension. My son absolutely sensed that tension in me and it impacted how he was able to enjoy food. When I relaxed, so did he.

snowflake1

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 7:57 pm

I was literally gonna come on here to ask the same question
My baby is very constipated and refuses to drink besides for nursing not from a cup sippy cup straw. She will take very little from a syringe and she will take tiny sips of soda from a cup
She only makes 1 dirty diaper once a week and 1 wet a day a birth so I really need to figure this out appreciate any other tips

amother

Seagreen

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 7:59 pm

I ended up being stuck nursingfor 2 years…

amother

Nemesia

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 8:28 pm

Keep on offering her water in a cup. I exclusively nurse but still a baby needs water access all the time. Be persistent and keep on offering water in a cup, on an open spoon and buy a good sippy cup. What does she do when you work? A baby needs to be able to get water easily this is very important regardless of your nursing.

amother

Nemesia

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 8:29 pm

And dont go cold turkey, that’s just mean to do that to a baby.
What do you do when you feed her food? She for sure gets thirsty. You must offer her water as she eats.

amother

Nemesia

Sun, Mar 26 2023, 8:32 pm

snowflake1 wrote:

This is very concerning. Did you speak to your pediatrician?? Why are you offering a baby soda??
Please have a sippy cup of water available at all times night and day from when a baby is 6 months old. Before that baby should drink breastmilk or formula on demand. This is very important for all babies.
Offer her water on a spoon to get her used to water. Soda is not healthy and doesn’t help her at all.
Your baby sounds dehydrated. She should be having lots of wet diaper a a day! You should have to change her all the time. Please reach out to your pediatrician asap!

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