Teat to beaker -how?

[Redwood]

Any suggestions how to persuade by 12month old to take her morning and night milk from a beaker and not a teat. I've read this is important - although I'm not sure why?

Not sure why either! But try swapping the bottle teat for a soft spout rather than getting rid of the whole thing all at once and then graduate from there - Avent do a good one. As far as I understand it they don't really need milk feeds after a year if they are eating enough dairy from others things - unless they really like them of course.

It's to do with coping with the flow of a drink rather than sucking on a teat, I think, which gets them used to sipping for when they drink from a cup. Also, unless they only drink water or milk, the teats allow more contact with teeth which is bad for them.
We tried dd on the Avent spouts but she hated them for some reason. By accident we found the Boots spouts to be brilliant. They fit onto Boots bottles (but not Avent, so only buy one if you've got all Avent stuff in case your dd doesn't take to it). The Boots spouts are blue and shaped like a flattish cone. Dd never looked back after these. HTH

Ah - we were thinking about this problem too - ds loves his am and pm milk feeds, but won't take them from a cup (even though he'll drink juice happily through a spout). I'm going to try those Boots spouts, Moomin.

Good luck Redwood, lets swap progress notes!

We used Avent bottles and simply changes the teat for a spout on the bottle. DD likes the comfort of holding a bottle for milk. We got the Avent soft spouts, took the non spill calve out and used them.

That's a good point Hulababy - I never thought about removing the valves. I'm sure that's why dd hated them - it was too much like hard work, sucking for her milk!!

THat is what we found with DD. She didn't want to work that hard for her milk. I tried them, they are quite hard to suck to get anything out of. AS soon as the valve was out she was fine with them, and they are much softer than most spouts.

Redwood, It has taken my son ages to go from a teat to a beaker as when i first tried he just wanted to chew on the beaker i think it helped his teeting he never got the hang off sucking out of it ......only just about 2 months ago he has learn't how to use a beaker (hes 15 months now)
What i found was in the superstores like Asda Tesco etc they sell a bottle/beaker that has a special teat sort of thing that will train them to go from a teat to a beaker its called something like baby trainers bootle (how to make your baby go from a teat to a beaker) this is how he got the hang of it. it really helped its soft like a teat but like a triangular shape. its about £4.00. but its worth the money!
They don't like babys to drink juice out of a teat as its bad for there teeth. not sure about Milk though. Goodluck and i hope this helps.

Thanks for all the advice - I'm only just back online as I've had the flu! I did try the soft spout from Avent about a month ago and she screamed like never before. But since then she has got much better at taking water from a beaker, so I might try again tonight. She seems to have got the bottle of milk as part of the nightime routine, and it seems hard to imagine her ever giving up the morning milk as when she wakes at 6am she is crying wih hunger for her it!!
I'll let you know kow it goes!