My daughter is 6m. She is a bottle refuser. She started full time nursery this week. I had to collect her at 3pm both days as she had refused food and liquid all day.
I have been really stressed about this and want to give up BF in the near future anyway so decided today was the day. Her last BF was lunchtime
Since then she's shown little interest in the bottle- She does try, but clearly doesn't quite get it. Can't use a sippy cup or straw cup
She has had a good dinner (Greek yogurt, omelette finger, chicken ball, breadstick- hard to tell how much was swallowed but a good attempt) and has now taken roughly 3oz EBM by doidy cup and finally gone to sleep.
My questions are: can she just continue on a doidy cup? It seems the sort of thing you'd use on a younger baby temporarily! If so what amounts should I expect her to drink at what sorts of times? I gather she would be looking at about 16oz a day at 6 months?
Also if anyone has any experience- it would be great to cut out bottle feeding all together but should I preserver beating in mind how little fluid she's been getting lately?