Giving up the bottle

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Hi, I'm new to mumsnet. My dd is 14 months old and all the health visitors / friends tell me to stop giving her milk in a teat bottle. She will not drink it out of anything else, even though she drinks water and juice out of a beaker or cup. One sip of milk out of a beaker and she shuts her mouth tight!
Any suggestions to get her drinking milk out of a beaker?

we had same problem with ds, but let him continue with bedtime bottle until he was around 22 months. then we went cold turkey and told him bottles were only for baby (had new baby sister by then) and big boys used beaker.
also told him he had to drink milk if he wanted to grow up big and strong like daddy (this had quite a big impact on him and he would sing it a few times before drinking his milk!)
we also bought him a second beakerm which he calls his milk beaker. I found no matter how clean/sterile his other beaker was it always smelled slightly of juice.
anyway I wouldn't worry too much at 14 months (not exactly true as I worried away when ds was that age always feel must do as health visitor says!!!)

If you want to stop the bottle then you just need to do that - stop giving her bottles. When I did that with ds1, initially he didn't go for the milk in a beaker but after a few weeks his consumption went up again and there was no problem. If you find she doesn't go for milk at all in the beaker you'll just have to make sure she eats plenty of dairy.
imo its easier to stop the bottle now than a year down the line...

I gave my daughter milk in a bottle until she was about 2. As long as they only get milk or water in a bottle , it doesn;t harm their teeth. But then, i'm good at ignoring advice........

Then she went onto an anyway up cup, only used for milk. As Gloworm says, the plastic keeps the juice smell. Although i DID keep her off juice as long as possible ( bad for teeth) and she only gets it in a normal cup ( no spout or lid).

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Thankyou, will start to stop the morning bottle now and keep bedtime one for a while longer.
She loves cheese and yogurts so I suppose as long as she is getting calcuim from those.
I can't believe how attached they get to the teat, and she was breastfed for about 8 months so has only had bottle for about 5 months. She is VERY stubborn though, like her Dad!