Milk

As I reported last month, Anna finally learned how to use a sippy cup but would only drink juice or water out of it, not milk. So I let her have milk in a bottle through the month of August. But after talking to the speech therapist, I decided to take the bottle away from her entirely since she is able to drink from the sippy cup and was just simply being stubborn about it (go figure!).

I thought she'd eventually give in to drinking her milk from the cup since she seems to like it so much, but the stubborn mule simply takes a quick sip to appease me and then gets to eating! I let it go for awhile since she wasn't making any progress even when I was being 'hard' on her and decided to ask the doctor when we saw her for her check up. After all, a couple of weeks without milk wasn't going to kill her!

Luckily the doctor had a great solution that worked very quickly. She suggested I mix the milk with drinkable yogurt. I bought it right away and gave her about 1 part milk to 2 parts yogurt. Anna was hesitant at first but gave into the deliciousness! Now I give her half and half and she's been doing well with it.

The only problem is that the yogurt has a lot of sugar, it's expensive and doesn't last long. So last night I bought some frozen strawberries and am going to mix it with the milk and half a banana. I was feeling lazy after I returned from the grocery store so I simply gave Anna the yogurt/milk mixture. But I'll try the 'smoothie' soon and let you know how it goes. Thanks Dr. Coy!