I am on a quest to make milk drinking from a cup fun and exciting. With this monstrosity I succeeded! 10 oz. of Sponge Bob (he doesn't know who Sponge Bob is....but the colors are exciting I guess) and a straw enticed Graham to drink a little more milk. This time there was no breast milk mixed in, but it isn't whole milk, it's vanilla soy milk. He seems to like that a lot better. Hopefully we will get to sneak some whole milk in eventually, but for now vanilla soy it is! When I took Graham to the pediatrician the other day he informed me that babies at this age really only require about 4 oz. of milk a day if they are getting plenty of cheese and yogurt and a multivitamin. That made me feel a lot better about his hatred of milk. So if I can get him to drink the soy (it has the same nutrients as whole milk..but I am not wild about the sugar added for the vanilla flavoring..trade off I guess) that is great!
5 years ago
