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stopping breastfeeding - trainer cups?

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sianandsoph · 27/11/2007 15:47

Does anyone have any advice on what trainer cups are the best to use? - after a visit to tesco this afternoon I'm very confused as what to buy. My daughter is 9 months old and has been mainly breastfed although has had the odd bottle here and there. I'm planning to stop breastfeeding over the next couple of weeks as I'm going back to work. I figure she's old enough now not to go solely onto bottles and so am going to start giving her milk from a trainer cup. I have been told that non-spill cups are very bad for children's mouths (regardless of what they say on the packet!) but this seems all that is available. I did find something else that looked like a bottle but the teat was flater and wider and this also claimed to be in between a bottle and a cup. Help - I don't know where to go from here. What did other people use when trying to wean their children off bottles? Am I being paranoid about the non-spill ones? Any advice would be appreciated.

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TheBlonde · 27/11/2007 16:00

non spill cups are fine
it's what you put in the cup that matters

tommee tippee best for not spilling link

SydneyB · 27/11/2007 16:02

Don't understand what the problem is with a non-spill cup. You can hardly give them a grown-up cup at 9 months can you? Tommee Tippee are cheap and perfect for water and milk.

sianandsoph · 27/11/2007 16:20

By non-spill I mean the ones with the valves in the lid - had a talk from a dentist at my postnatel group about how they ruin the shape of children's mouths and its just something that stuck in my mind.

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stircrazymum · 27/11/2007 16:33

We had all sorts of trouble with my bottle refusing breastfed dd and finally we did it with a tommee tippee 'value cup' from the hv which is extremely basic and just has three small holes in the raised bit of the top. She now can have it from the normal tommee tippee flip spout ones with no valve. Loads of people hve said that their child found these the easiest. I would avoid non-spill as it makes it harder for them to get the milk out.

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