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18 month old switch from bottle to cup for morning and evening milk

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PeterJones · 05/01/2007 09:39

Have decided the time has come to get rid of the bottles. should I just go cold turkey? any experience/advice welcome

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Seona1973 · 05/01/2007 10:51

I didnt do cold turkey. I switched the morning milk first and once dd was taking that ok I switched the evening milk too. I started with the tommee tippee first cup and when she was used to using that I started using the avent magic cup as it was less messy!!

Longlegs1972 · 05/01/2007 10:55

Hi - my LO is 15 months and he is very happy having his milk in a beaker in the morning but I too wondered when to change the night feed to beaker too, I like giving him a cuddle whilst he has it!

twickersmum · 05/01/2007 11:02

what's the rush?
my dd1 is nearly 3 and has only just given up her evening bottle, willingly. I tried before and it was a fight, i gave in when stopped bf dd2 and she had a bottle, dd1 went mad.
Can't see any harm in it myself if they're just drinking from it and that's it, not taking it to bed or walking round with it in their mouths for ages or anything.

Longlegs1972 · 05/01/2007 11:26

Kinda what I hoped someone else would say!!! Why take it away from him when he obviously is comforted by it! x

tinkerbellie · 05/01/2007 11:32

hi i started a thread like this yesterday, my daughter still has two daytime bottles and one on a morning and one at bedtime
she still eats all her food and isn't huge
but she will not have the milk out of a cup or beaker and doesn't have many other drinks during the day (prob because she has soo much milk)
but i can not get her to work out how to use any other sort of no spill baby drinks cup apart from a fruitshoot type one

MayhemMum · 05/01/2007 11:53

I had this dilemma with ds (now 4) as he refused to drink from a cup (after having previously refused to drink from a bottle - don't ya just love 'em?)

Boots do soft spouted beakers in different colours & I used this as a stop gap till he would drink from cups, around 18m. Never managed to get him to drink from a non-spill cup.

My daughter is 13m & she's currently on cups for water & day time milk but beakers for night time or if she's really tired. Can't see the problem as she guzzles the milk down so it's only in her mouth for a minute or two.

Original poster
PeterJones · 05/01/2007 11:59

Sorry to be really ignorant but what the difference between a beaker and a cup?

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tinkerbellie · 05/01/2007 12:03

i class a cup as like a mug/glass type thing and a beaker as a spouted cup either non spill or not
my daughter is happy to drink from a cup cup but it goes everywhere but i suppose is she can't get her head around the no spill ones will just have to teach her to do it more neatly and give her water (less stains)
but not for milk only the bottle will do

marymillington · 05/01/2007 12:10

what worked for us was switching the teat on the bottle for a hard spout - so he could still see he was getting milk. when he was happy with that, we switched to a beaker, which he still prefers before bed, though he has drunk from normal cups and glasses since he was very small (shot glass or espresso cup from 10 months or so)

was dreading it as he was passionate about his bedtime bottle, but we have found a variation of cold turkey has been the best way to go with DS for lots of things - depends on the child i think.

tinkerbellie · 05/01/2007 12:13

wher did you get the hard teats from

marymillington · 05/01/2007 12:14

Avent do them, slightly soft white ones and hard green ones that go in a "magic cup" . Boots sell them.

Vmama · 05/01/2008 16:00

hello i'm thinking of trying these after another day of battling to try and get DS to drink milk from a cup. He takes water from the basic tommee tippee cup no probs but refuses to drink milk from them. Do you think these teats could help? And how long did it take to go from these to a cup Marymillington? I keep trying to do 'the right thing' for DS but it's so hard and i cant bear it when he's screaming at me when all im trying to do is feed him!

Seona1973 · 05/01/2008 19:12

when I switched from bottle to cup I didnt give ds the feed like I would a bottle - I gave him the cup and let him feed it to himself. I started by giving him a lidded cup of milk mid-morning along with a snack in his highchair. Once he took that ok I gave him his mid-afternoon feed in a cup too and finally swapped his morning and night milk. (this was all done by 10 1/2 months). Try using a different cup than you do for water and try not using the cup like a bottle and let them take it themselves.

If you use avent bottles already then you can interchange the avent magic spouts with the teats. If you dont use avent bottles then you can buy avent magic cups (small and large) which come complete with the spouts.

The avent range of toddler spouts/magic cups can be found in Boots and most of the supermarkets.

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