Can't get her to accept much juice or water

i dont really have a whole lot of advice for either of you i will just tell you my experience.

kaydance did the same thing. in fact, i was getting worried about weaning from the bottles when she turned one since at 11 months she was still refusing the sippy cup and not wanting much to drink other than formula. really i just kept at it even though she had no interest and right before/just about on her first birthday she discovered she could drink from a sippy cup!! she still wasnt very good at it though and preferred her bottles, so i was still worried. well one day she just picked the cup up, and drank. and drank. and drank! i was so shocked. three days later i took away her last bottle and offered her everything she drank, milk, juice, water, and occassionally tea, in a cup. she didnt complain. i do realize i may have just gotten off super easy, but just wanted to reassure both of you that kaydance refused her sippy cup and anything other than forumla for the LONGEST time and then one day just kinda accepted it. i guess just keep trying and maybe they just arent ready yet. some babies can drink from a cup at 5 months, and some like my kaydee just dont get it! LOL!

Hey i prob started offering Kyrah water in a sippy cup around 4-5months and she wasnt interested either, she then stared to take little sips but thats about it. I then started to put a table spoon of juice in her water to see if she would drink it and she did and now she loves water will drink 2-3 cups full even out of a normal drink bottle, pop top anything and i dont put juice in there at all anymore. However it is summer here and very hot!!!! so i guess that prob helps, sometimes she will choose water over her milk ( rare)
But i guess this doesnt help you Tiff as you said you have tried juice and LM wont drink that either

I really dont know hun, how many milk bottles is she having per day?? cause at leat she is getting fluid still and as 24 P said K didnt really like hers till recently either.
I use to just ket Kyrah play with her cup etc when younger so she could explore it first.
Will she try to drink your drinks???? can you giver hers sips of yours if its healthy choic?? i dunno sorry i am no help, but i am sure she wil start to like it soon. good luck and do share if you find any tips etc xo

Have you tried heating it a little? Alex wouldnt take water or juice at the start unless it was warm, shes still the same some times. When you think about it they are getting their formula its warm but water and juice is usually cold and thats unusual to them. Alex can start her drink warm and then come back to it later and its cold but that dont bother her but if I think back she didnt used to be like that, I would have HAD to make a fresh drink up for her if it went cold.

Hope it helps chuck, Ill try thinking of other things that I had to do with Alex to get her drink.

I do remember that water was a big no no at the very start but to shift her wind I would have given her warm water with some sugar in it, like suggested by Gina Ford in her book (cant remember the name lol) so I tried it out to get her to drink as she absolutly loved it when she had wind then I gradually reduced the amount of sugar until she was only drinking water on its own.

Audrey wouldn't take a sippy cup for the longest time, but she did enjoy her water in her bottle, so I can't say much for that. I think Audrey has been full time on a sippy cup only AFTER she turned 1 year old, because I started work on 2 weeks before she turned 1 and she was still using the bottle. She didn't much care for her sippy cups. So when I finally said enough was enough, I had a soft spout sippy cup and she took to that one well....then later on I bought different kinds and those have been working great!!

Anyways she's still young...but don't push her, but keep trying if you know what I mean! I only gave Audrey watered down juice, now I'm much more cool about her drinking normal juice, hehe, even though daddy loves to give her really watered down juice!!