Getting rid of the bottle questions

[cece]

DD is 16 months and still gets a morning bottle and bedtime bottle.   Here's the thing, she is allergic to dairy so we never transitioned to milk.   She refuses almond milk and soy milk.  But will drink a toddler soy formula, which is what she gets in those two bottles.  She won't, however, drink the formula out of a sippy cup. At all.  She will shake her head and throw the cup.  She will drink water out of the sippy cup.  UGH!!   I would love to get rid of the bottles but can't figure out how. (I feel like she needs the formula for nutritional value so she gets something besides water.)
 Any suggestions??  Cold turkey? Here is a sippy cup take it or leave it?

Not sure of this matters or not but she won't hold the bottle herself during those two feeding either.  I wonder if she likes the routine.   
Help!  Please and Thank you!

[dancingirl21]

Stick with it. We had to go cold turkey before J would drink milk out of a sippy. He absolutely refused milk out out of the sippy while still giving bottles. It took about a week before he got it and then started drinking 18+ ounces per day. It won't hurt her to miss a few days. J was 15 months when we went cold turkey.

[water*drop]

DD was still MSPI when we cut bottles, and she also refused all forms of milk substitutes. Our pediatrician said that as long as she was getting enough calcium, fat, and protein in her diet, she didn't really need to drink a milk substitute. She was still nursing, so that made it easier to make sure she got enough of everything in her diet, but even now at 2.5, she rarely drinks more than a few sips of the milk we offer. She just doesn't really like it. Maybe talk to your pediatrician about her diet if she's still refusing the milk substitute after a couple of weeks of going cold turkey.

[Velar Fricative]

DD is 14 months and she just gave up bottles for good last week. I was not adamant about her being off bottles at this point but we just offered milk in a cup first each time. If she refused, we just ended up pouring the milk into a bottle since we were in no rush to push it. I figured she'll eventually get it, and she did. She slowly began drinking from a cup for at least one serving a day (started with just a few sips) and then she began drinking from a cup for other servings, serving by serving. Some days she mostly drank from cups, other days she mostly drank from bottles so it wasn't always consistent. I figured she was good without bottles once it became a few days of no bottles. I don't know what I would have done if this continued happening for another few months from now though - if you're at your wit's end cold turkey might just help.

The key for us was just continuing to offer consistently.

[Deleted]

With my oldest I did cold turkey on her 1st birthday. Hid the bottles and no one could say bottle, baba, etc for like 3 days. She didn't drink as much, but they all drop the milk intake a bit around then and then pick it back up again. I think most kid things are easiest to just go cold turkey. Kids are adaptable.

[cece]

Thanks for the encouragement. I think I am gonna try cold turkey. I am scared about the night time bottle more than the morning bottle. Probably shouldn't do one at a time huh?