Weaning off bottle to sippy cup?

[RayRae19]

Tips on how to do this with a 15 month old?
She has been using a sippy cup for all her drinks with meals/out and about since 6 months, but we're still using a bottle for milk feeds am and pm (and lunch, but I'm in the process of cutting that one out).
I've tried just offering it in a sippy cup instead but she gets very annoyed. Occasionally if I offer a sippy with milk in at lunch she will take it.

How did other people do it? Is it ok to leave it a bit longer as a comfort thing? She seems to be getting very attached to it...
We also use 360 cups and I tried a straw cup the other day so she physically can use them fine.
Don't really want to go cold turkey, I don't think I can handle the hit to our sleep at the moment and I prefer gentler methods generally.

Thanks!

I know cold turkey doesn't seem the kindest option but it might be the best one. The longer you leave it, the more she will get attached to it and the harder it will be and it's really bad for her teeth to be using a bottle as it exposes the teeth to more of he sugar. It can lead to bottle rot.

It's great that she's using a sippy cup for some drinks already as it won't be such a shock for her. Maybe try a few different cups to see if there's one that she may prefer. Some babies like the 360 cups more than sippy cups or even the straw cups you've tried. It could also be worth letting her pick out her own cup maybe and see if that helps?

Also it may be worth seeing if there's something else you can try and incorporate as a comfort for her like a teddy, blanket or small comforter. Maybe if she has something else that she uses for comfort she won't be so intent on the bottle.

I would just give her the cup if she uses it. If it means she doesn't drink much milk then she doesn't at 15 months I assume she eats most food anyway and no real need for milk?

I did think this @NoKnit that it wouldn't do any harm to scrap the milk if she's not having much. But I read they are meant to have 20oz of dairy at this age (including food like yoghurt and stuff) I think? She eats plenty though.

She already has a comfort blanket bunny to help settle at bedtime but I think we rely a lot on the bottle to settle her...argh feels like everything comes back to bite me!
How sugary is cows milk though? That's the only drink she has from the bottle. We're going to the dentists next week, hopefully no issues so far...

I think at 12 months my DS had a cup of milk (he had a phase where he went off it a bit) but he had cereal with milk for breakfast, yogurts as you said. As long as she's having it in those kinds of things you should be absolutely fine :)

It's not so much the cows milk but any drink from a bottle will expose the teeth to more of the sugar because of how they drink from it. It coats the teeth for longer. I'm sure there'll be no adverse affects yet

I think sometimes it can be the younger, the better to do things as they can't obviously ask more questions as they get older, can protest more and need to know what and why things are happening. It's just hard to go through the difficult phase that comes with taking it away! We did it with DS' dummy and suffered a few rough nights before he replaced it with his comforter as we didn't want to have the battle when he was older!

Good luck

My 15 month old still has 1 bottle at night it's part of his bedtime routine and I love giving it to him and he loves getting it he's a fine healthy boy. I've decided I'm not stopping until he's 2 but it's full fat cows milk. I'd try cut out the morning one first though, does she have breakfast in the morning with milk? My boy does, then has a yourgart, cheese and he bottle at night. His dinner might have milk in it too like an omelette.