Toddler won't drink cows milk or take formula in cup!

[Weeplin]

It seems silly writing this as this is my 3rd ff baby but my first 2 somehow weaned themselves off formula.

Freya is very attached to her bottle and her formula milk. She will happily have cows milk in her food but not in a bottle or a cup and she will only every take her formula in a bottle and never in a cup.

1) Is her having formula still that big an issue? If she won't drink cows milk I would rather she still have some sort of milk. I had issues with my first 2 and drinking milk for the first 3 years after weaning, DS is 3 and still won't drink it unless its flavoured.

2) How do I get her to take it from a cup? I've tried all sort of cups including soft spout cups.

She has about 6oz in the morning after her breakfast and 9oz at night at bedtime. She will not sleep without her bedtime milk.

Any help or cup recommendations would be great!

 

[Ktothema]

My dd would drink watered down juice and water from a cup but would only have milk from a bottle, which we had to give her too - I mean, that's what the slaves are for right lol? Eventually she decided she wanted to give herself bottles and from that point we reintroduced milk in a cup. She now has a cup of milk every night before bed.

To get her off formula we slowly mixed the formula out. So if she had a 6oz bottle we spent a while making it 5oz of formula and 1oz of cows milk, then 4oz formula and 2oz milk, etc etc until she was completely on milk.

 

[OmarsMum]

We also mixed formula with cow milk. As for weaning off the bottle Omar was the same, we started to offer him some cereals before bedtime at 17 months, at 18 months he dropped his bedtime bottle on his own, but he was still waking up some nights for bottles. At 23 months he started to sleep through so we weaned him off the bottle as he didn't need it for comfort. He went off milk for 1 month, then he started to drink it again from an open cup. He eats loads of dairy & yoghurts, so I wasn't worried when he was off milk.

I found that he prefers cow milk cold from the fridge, he doesn't like it warm.

 

[skunkpixie]

I personally dont see a problem with toddlers having thier milk in a bottle. It's just a comfort thing, and no different to a toddler still being breastfed IMO.
We have just switched DD2 from formula to Cows milk in the last couple of days. What I did was each day added 1oz of cows milk and 1oz less of formula to her bottles. She didnt seem to mind/notice the gradual change and is on 100% cows milk from today. xxx