When to switch from bottle to sippy cup

[Hardiharhar]

Hi all
My LO is on hypoallergenic milk and unlikely to be ready for cow's milk when she turns 1. I think the general advice is not to use bottles beyond age 1? Correct me if I'm wrong. Just wondering when people started giving formula in a sippy cup instead of a bottle.

You could start trying after 6 months but ds1 never got the hang of a sipping cup until he was about 9 months, used to just spit out the water I'd put in.

My 2.5 year old still has one bottle of milk a day, not sure if the rush. He drinks all other drinks in a cup since about 12 months.

Nhs advise no bottles after 12 months as they're bad for teeth, I assume that's what ops talking about anyway.

I think in reality most people keep the bedtime milk bottle going past 1 in spite of the NHS advice. We swapped to cows milk at 1 then ditched the bottles when DD decided she was completely done with milk before bed at 15 months. The most important thing is to do teeth brushing after the milk from this age.

We switched the eldest at 1 to cows milk in a cup. Our youngest is allergic to milk and so at 1 we switched to a cup and soya / oat milk.

DS never got to grips with a traditional sippy cup! We used munchkin weight straw cups and 360 cups. Then just a normal cup when he was a bit older. I think we got rid of all bottles except his bedtime one at about 13 months, then stopped the other at about 15 months when my midwife sister gave me a bit of a nudge!