When we took Elye off the bottle we just replaced one addiction with another. She just switched her addiction from the Born Free bottle to the Born Free sippy. She loved it, but she drank a lot of milk, especially on her bad days. It was like her paci. If things weren't going her way, if she was tired, or if she was hungry she wanted milk. So I had enough one day when she refused to eat breakfast and only wanted milk. I hid all her sippys and refused. There were several fits. I cheered her up by telling her we would go to the mall, make a Build-a-Bear, and put her sippy in the bear. She loved it. She loved that rabbit! Until about 2 hours later when she wanted to rip its head off and get her sippy. She was literally screaming, "Cut its head off." We didn't cut its head off and Elye is now drinking her milk out of a Nuby. It has definitely helped. Every once in a while she will have her bad days(or I will have my bad day and give in) and drink a lot of milk. Most days she is down to three cups a day. I'll take it.
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