Milk is milk is milk?

We are facing somewhat of a challenge with Sam. He continues to breastfeed at least 5 times a day, and has recently started drinking some liquids (i.e. water, juice) from a cup or sippy cup. In fact he's taken to one particular sippy cup the "Take and Toss Little Learner" sippy cup (5 oz) size. They're great, because they are small enough for Sam to handle and drink from on his own. Interestingly, these are the only disposable sippy cups that are recyclable. I picked them up when we were going away on a trip, and believe me, I looked through all the disposable ones there. And the Take and Toss brand is the only one out there that you can recycle. So kudos to Learning Curve, the makers of Take and Toss. Anyway, I digress.

Very soon I will be returning to work part time, and Sam will be spending three days a week at daycare. Ideally, I'd like to be able to send breastmilk with him every day as an option for him to drink. So on the weekend, while I was away, Tim tried giving Sam some breastmilk in a sippy cup. Back in September Sam started outright refusing to take a bottle, so we were hopeful that the sippy cup would do the trick. Not so. Sam did the same head turning, throwing a fit, throwing the cup on the floor that he did when he stopped taking the bottle. The next day we tried some regular homo milk in a sippy cup to see if maybe it was just the breastmilk. Same reaction. Sigh.

For the next couple days Sam was completely resistant to the sippy cup, even with juice in it. Thankfully this evening he started taking it again. Sort've.

Interestingly, I was feeding him lunch and drinking a glass of milk, and he wanted it. So I let him take a sip of my milk. No resistant reaction, in fact he wanted more. What a goof. Obviously he's trying to manipulate us. Maybe I'll have to start pretending to drink his milk, then give it to him. We'll see. :)