Moving from bottle to cup

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My 15 month old DD still has 2 bottles of milk a day (morning and bedtime). Please can you give me some advice how we can move to a cup, as when we do try she'll cry!

Tend to try at the morning bottle as find evenings she's just too tired and ratty, but mornings she can be pretty clingy til she's had her bottle.

She also has her milk warmed a little (to room temperature).

Any help would be much appreciated.

DD just sort of did it by herself around the same age... But she had a thing for drinking out of a big proper glass because it was heavy and she obviously thought she was super grown up! But in the mornings now, to make sure she actually drinks enough milk to get her through til breakfast at nursery, she has one of those cups with handles and a spout lid - like THIS & she got used to it pretty quickly. We were very happy to get past the bottle phase even if it's not quite into a cup

Hi,
I switched DS from bottle (he had one twice a day only, too) to cup at age 2. I told him that tomorrow there would be no more bottle & his milk would be in a cup from then on. He protested for about 3 days but then accepted it. Good luck x

Are you absolutely desperate to make the switch?? If you can, I'd just leave it a while and wait until she seems more ready herself. That's what we're planning to do with ds who's 14 months.

I suppose no desperate hurry but people keep telling me she shouldn't be having a bottle at 15 months.

I really wouldn't worry just yet - loads of kids have bottles beyond the recommended cut-off point, and maybe in a few months she'll be ready herself. Ideally make sure the nighttime bottle isn't right before bed and she brushes her teeth after.

Wouldn't stress at all about keeping the bottle but we got rid of the morning one by offering breakfast as soon as she got up instead then give a sippy cup of milk with breakfast no fuss

We had a bit of that too op. When I read about it the main issues are anaemia (if baby has loads of bottles instead of food), speech issues (if baby has loads of bottles instead of learning to talk) and dental problems (if baby has loads of bottles damaging teeth).All involve baby having loads of bottles when ds only has two so we've kicked it into the long grass!! We brush his teeth after his bedtime one though. I think we'll just wave a "big boy" cup around for a bit and eventually he'll take it himself I reckon.

I just went with the lazy parent strategy and moved him onto a nuby cup with a soft spout then no a tommee tippee cup with a hard free-flowing spout, then didn't really try to move him onto an open cup till nursery had done most of the hard work & he started nicking mine!

Whatever you do they'll not be on a bottle when they're 18. Don't worry about what others think.

My almost 18 month old still has a bottle for his bedtime milk. We tried to switch it to a beaker just after his first birthday but he wouldn't drink it, and tbh I'd rather he was having a daily drink of milk than just taking it away so went back to the bottle! He has drank water from a beaker since he was about 9 months, and we switched to one of these
www.tommeetippee.co.uk/product/active-sippee-cup/
just after he was one for his water. The last month or so we have been giving him an open top plastic cup just at mealtimes with very weak squash in, to encourage him to drink from a proper cup, and he loves this, just like mummy and daddy! Only do this at mealtimes though, he has his non spill one available the rest of the time!
In regards to the bedtime bottle I'm thinking it's a comfort thing as it's the only time of day he lies still cuddled up in my arms now right before bed, and I'm not in any hurry to drop it, he only has the one at home before he goes to bed, I'm sure he will drop it when he is ready, for now he is happy having a cuddle and bottle with mummy each night :)