what does yur child drink its milk out off?

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juice · 08/09/2005 10:37

hi all, my dd is just over 1 year. she is on full cows milk now. i have been giving it to her it a bottle, but i read it is bad for their teeth. what should i be giving her milk to her in. first child so not too clued up on this. hope someone can point me in the right direction. thanks very much

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ghosty · 08/09/2005 10:39

Apparently it should be out of a cup ... If they drink everything (milk, juice etc) from a bottle only then yes it is bad for their teeth.
But DD is 19 months and has two bottles of milk a day. All other drinks are from a cup.
My DS drank his bedtime milk from a bottle till he was 3. His teeth are fine (he is nearly 6).

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juice · 08/09/2005 10:42

she has her water out of a cup. so do you think i should just leave her with her milk in a bottle

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ParisMum · 08/09/2005 10:42

my dd is nearly a year and only drinks her milk from a bottle, everything else from a cup. I'd rather she used a cup for milk too but when I give it to her in a cup she hardly drinks anything so it's a bit of a toss up between her drinking enough milk, or her using a cup for all her drinks. It's a bit of a dilemma.

ghosty · 08/09/2005 10:43

How many bottles does she have a day?

ParisMum · 08/09/2005 10:45

mine has two large ones and then a small one mid-afternoon

ghosty · 08/09/2005 10:54

Yes, when my DD was 12 months she still had 3 bottles a day. I can't remember when we dropped the mid afternoon one ... I think it was when I got fed up with waking her from her nap to have her milk before legging it up to school to pick up DS ... so probably around 14/15 months.

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juice · 08/09/2005 10:54

she has a big one in the morning and and 4oz at noon, 4pm and before bed

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Bozza · 08/09/2005 10:57

DD is 15 months. Has milk morning and night from a cup. 7oz each time and drains it in seconds. When she was about 10 months I started giving her the daytime milk she was still having then in a cup and then the morning and finally at about 1 the bedtime milk.

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juice · 08/09/2005 11:00

bozza, what cup are you using.
i dont really know which one to give her. she has her water in a cheap tommee tippee thing the now. its not a non drip one. it has detachable lid and hard spout. it was about £2 out of tescos

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Bozza · 08/09/2005 11:05

She has it out of an Avent Magic Cup. At first I took the valve out so it flowed easily but as she got the hang of it she now has the valve in. If I were you I would maybe consider milk in a cup in the daytime at first and leave the am/pm ones in the bottle until she gets used to the idea.

bandbsmum · 08/09/2005 20:54

Try the Tommee Tippee bottle to cup trainer, that's what I've just started using for my dd who I'm trying to stop bfing. She would never take a bottle, but has had her afternoon milk from this every day for a week now. It has a soft spout, and the sucking action needed is similar to using a teat. Think it's meant to make the transion from bottle to cup easier.

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