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Melanie Potock

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🪄My Magic Method for perfecting open cup drinki 🪄My Magic Method for perfecting open cup drinking skills for older toddlers! 💕Baby Tip: Start offering small sips of water to babies 6 to 12 months via a tiny cup. But when it comes time to encourage your toddler to do it on their own, try this method with a tiny cup of your choice. There are many advantages to my method of using a baby food jar at first – see the post on why I have done it this way for over 10 years. But, sooner or later buying a cup for baby is essential of course! 👉🏻Swipe to see my favorites and click the blue link in my bio for discounts! ✨Bonus Tip: As mentioned in my book, start with a smooth puree in the cup! It will slow the flow and be easier for your child to manage. #melaniepotock
🍼Got a toddler who you want to wean from the bo 🍼Got a toddler who you want to wean from the bottle, but babe refuses milk in any other type of cup?🤦🏼‍♀️Such a common issue! Why is that? Well… 😘Kids associate bottles with comfort. That is why it’s hard to wean older toddlers from bottle drinking all together. (My Bye-Bye Bottles Video Course can guide you for any age.) We want kids to get enough liquids throughout the day, but don’t want to rely on water 100%, because many other drinks, like milk, offer nutrition for growing bodies. 🥳Here’s my solution – slowly create a love for milk though tiny sips via straws. Short straws offer the sucking comfort, but without the concern of delayed speech and feeding development. The cups pictured here are by @ezpzfun & invented by my pal @msdawnslp . 💕 👉🏻When you use the method outlined in the post, kids will take a tiny sip and yes, they might put it back down and choose the water. That’s ok! Over time, with each meal, your child will be comfortable taking one tiny sip. That leads to tiny exposures to a beverage that they absolutely love to drink, with tiny exposures of that beverage in a new container. 🤔But don’t they have a 50/50 chance of choosing the water? Sure! But they have the same odds of choosing the milk. 💕♥️💕Parent patiently. It takes time…but it works! (✨Discount code for ezpz products via blue link in my profile ✨) ✨🍼✨Bye-bye bottles course - use code MYMUNCHBUG10 for 10% off any of my video courses via blue link in profile ✨ #melaniepotock
🥛 Got a kiddo who seems to survive on mostly mi 🥛 Got a kiddo who seems to survive on mostly milk? 🥛Got a little munch bug who likes to guzzle, then run & play, leaving the rest of the food untouched?🥛Milk can provide essential nutrients for kids, but when kids just guzzle & go, it doesn’t leave opportunities to explore new foods & become an adventurous eater. 🤦🏼‍♀️Milk can cause a sudden decrease in appetite & desire for new foods, because… 🥛It’s filling. I challenge you to drink a mere 8 ounces of milk in the span of a few minutes. That’s less volume than a typical tall latte & your stomach has a greater capacity for more. Yet, you’ll feel pretty full, almost immediately. Same for kids – they go from hungry to satisfied in a matter of minutes. 🧻It can be constipating if kids are drinking a lot. Constipation shuts down appetite, especially for new foods. Too much milk can also impact iron absorption. 🤔What to do? If your child can self-regulate milk & sips on it while eating the other food, then no worries! But if they are too dependent on milk to fill little bellies, then serve low-fat milk in a small straw cup with a thin straw, so it’s not as easy to guzzle. When it’s gone, there’s still water & water can be refilled. 💕Parent mindfully &compassionately: “You do love milk! We will have some more with dinner.” 🍎What about snacks? Limiting milk to mealtimes helps kids focus on trying a variety of snacks. But, if you need a quick boost of energy, a small carton of milk with a straw is a terrific snack on the go. 🍪Remember, snacks are small with no seconds. A few cookies or some nut butter & safely-sliced pieces of apple are all delicious editions if milk is going to be the primary source of energy at snack time. ✨🥛✨The AAP recommends just 16 to 20 oz of milk for kids ages 2 to 5. Other dairy foods or dairy substitutes can be fine alternatives. It’s pretty simple: Lots of water, a bit of milk/milk substitute & plenty of variety of other foods. That’s it! #melaniepotock
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