How to get my DS onto beakers HELP

[Alexandersmummy]

My DS is 10 months old and still has his milk in bottles with teats which is fine, but I would like to get him to have juice/water from a beaker but I am struggling does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

[mummyhill]

We used a nubby bottle/cup thing. It had a cup style spout but it was soft like a bottle teat. Once ds was used to this we introduced a hard spout that was the same shape. Now at 11 months he will take juice/water or milk out of any type of tippy cup although I do still let him have a bottle last thing at night.

[Snozcumber]

We used the same sort of thing from boots made by Tommee Tippee! Think they are called bottle/cup trainer systems.

They are like an in-between stage from bottles 2 cups and they come in bright colours too.
We didn't have 2 use them 4 long before dd1 would use a normal beaker.

Only disadvantage was that the teats were quite slow flowing, so I just opened them up a bit.

[mistersmum]

I was breastfeeding and MLO wouldn't take a bottle (and boy did I try every make of bottle!)so I was keen to get him onto formula out of some form of cup. I introduced the basic Tommee Tipee with milk in and tried it first thing in the morning when he was thirsty. Then I diluted the milk so he got used to having something less concentrated. With juice and water I just kept introducing at meals getting him to have the odd sip, and it did take some time but he is doing really well now. Good luck

[PanicPants]

We just chose a cup (avent actually) and offered it every day and perservered. Now ds is a year old I just threw the bottles away and only offered cows milk in a cup, took a day!

[Quannoi]

MLO (18m) took to one particular cup from Boots (now discontinued - d'oh!) and can't/won't try another.

I've tried grim determination and only offering a new cup, and his will turned out to be more steely than mine, as I couldn't let him have no water all day!

Same goes for teats - apart from his magic cup - we tried trainer bottles and teats, and he wasn't having any of that new-fangled guff either. He now uses a trainer bottle with an avent teat in place of the as-sold trainer teat.

I'm sure he'll change his mind when he's ready, my prediction is that he'll bypass spouts and trainer teats altogether and go straight to drinking from an open cup - he manages ok when I offer him some of my water.

[eggybreadandbeans]

My ds (26 months) still has a bottle before his nap and at bedtime, which I'm cool about. Otherwise, he now drinks out of an open or sippy cup. For ages, we tried all these snazzy different cups, and ds wasn't having any of it. Even now he can't get anything out of those anyway-up cups ... and I struggle to! In the end, after buying all manner of all-singing, all-dancing cups, I found a pack of four in Tesco (Tesco's own brand, in conjunction with Nuby) -they're almost disposable-looking (see-through green/yellow), but are reusable and dishwasher-safe. And they're free-flow, and just brilliant. Ds was great with these, and has graduated naturally to an open cup without fuss. They were about £1.99 for four - the best cups I bought!

HTH