Give expressed bm via bottle or cup....ds 23weeks old

[Ashappyaslarry]

I'm not sure if this question is best asked here or in weaning...but I'm asking here.

Ds is 5 1/2 months. Up until about 2 weeks ago he was exclusively bf, via the breast-wouldn't take the bottle. Then, about a fortnight ago we tried the bottle again and he took it. I'm not looking to bottle feed, and wont be using formula, but do want to continue occassionally giving him the bottle so I have some freedom if I need to go anywhere.

At 6 months we'll be starting baby led weaning, which is just around the corner, and I guess at that point I'll start to introduce a cup of some form for water if he wants it. I guess I'm wondering if I should give him any expressed bm in a sippy/doidy cup as opposed to a traditional bottle? At the moment he's not really used to the bottle, so wonder if it's a bit stupid using them now, to then have to 'wean' him off it later. But having said that, for some reason, giving him a feed in a cup feels wrong....and I'm terrified that now we've finally got him to take a bottle, if we faf around he might go back to refusing anything other than the breast!!!

don't want you to go unanswered. my 22wk dd is currently taking three top up bottles of expressed milk a day but i was just pondering this week about the switch over. i'm planning to get a special cup just for milk. i had a cow one for ds2 who refused bottles completely! i've got one for water but i don't want to use same one for milk if that makes sense. my pondering has been around whether i start her on cups now or wait til i'm weaning her on solids. so i guess in answer to your question i'd go for the cup idea now. especially as you're planning it to be an occassional thing and you're not relying on bottles to get x ammont in every day. When you are away from him,if lo is really hungry for milk he'll either take it from cup or wait for you to return. (Not ideal if you're planning to escape to have a few glasses of wine., I know but it means you don't need to panic about it if the cup isn't his fav mode of delivery!)