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When to start giving milk in a beaker?

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Dawnie6577 · 01/08/2008 10:34

Ds has 2 x breastfeeds, 2 x bottlefeeds a day. He is a little over 9 months and I wondered should I still be giving him milk in a bottle or trying a cup?
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LittleMissNorty · 01/08/2008 13:01

I started prob around 10 months giving daytime bottles (only one by then) in a cup....very unsuccessful....so we dropped it altogether and just kept to morning / evening milk (in a bottle).

Does he have his water etc from a cup? My DD drinks from a cup all the time, but just doesn't like milk in one for some reason

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Seona1973 · 01/08/2008 13:14

I started offering one day feed from a lidded beaker when ds was around 9 months old. I offered it to him along with a snack and got him to feed it to himself rather than offer it the way I would with a bottle. Once he was used to taking milk in a beaker at that feed I did the same with the mid-afternoon one and he eventually ended up taking all his milk feeds from a cup by 10 1/2 months. He was also down to just 2 feeds by then.

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Dawnie6577 · 01/08/2008 13:59

Thank you for your replies.
He has water from a cup with every meal, drinks at most, about 2oz.
I did try with his mid morning milk today and he took some from it (although a lot he likes to spit out, like he does with water, the little treasure!).
I think I'll keep trying with his mid-morning milk, which he isn't taking that much of now anyway tbh.
Thanks again.

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