Help - bottle or beaker?

[Fiftyshadesofposset]

Should I start training my (what will be 9 month old) to get used to having milk in a beaker? I'm returning to work soon and at the moment he is exclusively bf but does readily take water in a beaker at mealtimes. I'll be needing to introduce formula for when I'm at work (long hours), should I introduce a bottle at this stage or could he take it in a beaker? Would he get enough from a beaker (i.e. sipping rather than glugging it down)?

I would start with a beaker as you are supposed to stop bottles by 1 year so you would have to go through it all again in a few months time.

My dd started nursery at 8 months and used a sippy cup, not a bottle. She had quite limited experience of using it for milk, I mainly practised it with her with water, but it went fine, she got plenty.

my dd is 8m old

she is exclusively breast fed, and has refused bottles since January.

Although I am a SAHM i have a few occasions in the coming months where i will have to leave her.

In the past week or so i have got her drinking milk out of her sippy cup. (I give her milk with her tea instead of water, cause she loves drinking and i dont want her to drink a massive cup of water an hour before bed)

not sure how she will go to sleep when i leave her, as (at bed time only) she falls asleep on the breast, but i figure she will just have to do it some how.

I agree go straight to a cup if you can, better in the long run, so long as baby is happy that way

Thanks for the advice. Think I'll avoid introducing a bottle at this stage, hopefully he'll get enough milk with the sippy cup alone. Was dreading having to as the last time we attempted giving EBM in a bottle a few months ago he flately refused!