Best ideas please- bottle to cup for milk?

[bramblina]

Wish I never introduced the darned thing in the first place! I breastfed him till 13 months! He started taking a bottle of cm mid morning and ebm before bed (was falling asleep on breast) then that was replaced with cm when I stopped bf. Damn!
I saw a trainer system in boots- is it worth the bother? I've tried a straw and a doidy cup but he's not keep and won't take much, whereas he always has a full bottle and goes to bed no problem. What to do?!

Just start off with a cup that has 2 handles and only one hole in the spout. Once he's confident with that you can get a cup with more holes.
But there's no harm in him having a bottle at bedtime for as long as he wants to - he'll stop of his own accord before long.

oh i don't know... my dd is nearly 3 and still insists on a bottle of milk before bed! (i think my sister was 5 before my mum finally got her off it).

I have the same issue with my DS2 (13mths). He will take a full bottle of milk, but outright refuses a cup. He will drink water from a cup though!
I've decided the battle is not worth it, he will change eventually - will try reintroducing again in a month or so.

Are you worried about the teeth issue? My DS1 had night-time milk in a bottle until he was 2 - don't think its a major problem as long as they don't have a bottle in their mouths all day.

twickersmum - she'll stop when she starts having friends back from school for sleepovers!

I was mean and threw away all the bottles in one go at about 12 months. DS protested for a few days and then gradually came to drink the same amount in a cup.

I did that with ds2's dummy - he still had one at night till he was about 21 mnths and my dentist said he should stop before 2.
Needless to say, we had about 4 very disturbed nights, but it still makes me smile when I hear parents saying that they can't get their child to stop using one.
Gives me a picture in my head of their tot nicking money from their purse and marching off to the shops on their own to buy a new one!

she has her milk in a cup in the morning. i just tell her there are no bottles clean and she'll have to wait for dd2 to finish before she can have any milk if she wants a bottle. she soon accepts it in a cup.
But the night time is a different story - she just howls until i give in.
Her teeth are fine and i'm not that worried - just wonder if she will ever "give it up" without a battle/bottle fairies coming etc etc

Hmmm food for thought, thanks everyone. I think the teeth issue is the main concern, he has all 8 front teeth but will soon be getting the molars and I suppose I do worry they may decay. We brush his teeth as he comes out of the bath, not straight after the milk, I think it would counteract the relaxing effect of the milk! At the moment anyway. My Mum says relax and he'll grow out of it. I just suppose I think he's a little old for a bottle, he's no longer a baby . I'll leave it for now then. Thanks again.