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Switching from bottle to cup - help!

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modgepodge · 24/08/2020 09:18

My daughter is 17m and still has her milk in a bottle. I don’t know how to move her on to a cup! I’ve read that it’s bad for their teeth to still be drinking from a bottle at this age, and I actually tried switching just before her first birthday but we’ve had no luck.

I have googled it but all the articles I found were if the baby won’t drink from a cup at all - my daughter will drink water from a number of sippy cups, the munchkin 360 one and even open cups (with help) but if I put her milk in them she just wails and pushes it away and refuses to drink it. She obviously likes the comfort of sucking on a bottle.

As I say, I tried this before a year, then left it a few months and have tried again now, but the same thing. Any suggestions??

She has 3 bottles a day, which is probably quite a lot for her age, but for medical reasons she has to have a lot of calories and her dietician is happy with this amount. For this reason I can’t just not give her the milk If she refuses it in a cup.)

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Changedmynamelots · 24/08/2020 09:20

Personally I wouldn’t be hugely bothered if the bottle is just for milk, the issue arises when people us it for juice etc.
My ds has milk in one till he was 3 , he has perfect teeth and no issues at all.

modgepodge · 24/08/2020 09:24

@Changedmynamelots

Personally I wouldn’t be hugely bothered if the bottle is just for milk, the issue arises when people us it for juice etc. My ds has milk in one till he was 3 , he has perfect teeth and no issues at all.
Ok that’s interesting, thank you. It’s only ever for milk, and water in a cup, we don5 do juice or anything else at all.
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MrsPatrickDempsey · 24/08/2020 09:30

She isn't having excessive bottles and it's good that she drinks other things from a cup. The sugar in milk is a dental decay risk though but If you are able to clean her teeth after a bottle then there isn't to much of an issue.

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