Help getting 9mth old onto cups - desperate!!

[budd]

Hi there.... new member here, first post I have made.
I am hoping that someone out there might be able to help.
I have a 9month old who has been BF so far. The occasional bottle was given in the first few months but I had problems expressing so wasn't religious with giving a bottle that regularly. (regret that now)
He will now not take any liquid from anything other than my boob. Have tried various tt cups, NUK trainer cup, avent bottles, tt bottles. Liquid we have tried includes milk (formula - Farleys, Aptimil, Cow & Gate), water, watered down apple juice. Beginning to get slightly stressed about this as would ideally like to start weaning him off me a bit. Going back to work in a couple of months and he will be at nursery for three days a week.
Any suggestions?
thanks
Izzy

It does take time. How about leaving an empty cup on his high chair and clapping when he makes a sipping action.

It took a lot longer for dd1 than dd2 to adapt to bottle but we got there in the end.

Have you tried a doidy cup? Ds is 7 months and he loves his

Yes Doidys are good - you can get them at John Lewis

Well I never breast fed so not one to give advise about the weaning aspect but thought this might help.

How about trying from a straw?

My dd could drink from one from about the 10 month mark you could try and orange juice carton with a straw to start off with.

Well I never breast fed so not one to give advise about the weaning aspect but thought this might help.

How about trying from a straw?

My dd could drink from one from about the 10 month mark you could try and orange juice carton with a straw to start off with.

ds2 is the same - we use an open avent lid as a cup, ok it does leak a bit but he does drink from it.
Recently we have a Nuby silicone spout one, which he loves to chew for teething, now he has just figured he can drink and is quite chuffed with his autonomy.

thank you. yes, I do have a Doidy which sometimes he will drink from but more often than not he will push it away or upturn it out of my hand. when using a Doidy, how full do you have it? ie is it easier with more liquid?

Would also say a doidy cup. Just started using one with DS2 who is 6 months old and he can quickly drink a cup full from it. But DS1 just had a normal plastic beaker from about 6 months (although a bit messy). I found all the training cups fairly hopeless with DS1. With some of them it was quite difficult for him to suck anything out.

Ok, so the Doidy seems to be the way forward then!!! Will persevere with an open cup. Will it then just be an open cup always or will he eventually learn to suck from a spout?
May try a straw. - would the OJ need to be diluted or can it be given to him straight?

I found a tommy tippee cup a good middle ground - free flowing but not open top, so felt a little safer to them andering around etc when a little older. Both my ds were breast fed until 1 year od but took to these happily.

I think more fluid is easier as you don't have to tip it back so much.

Have only ever given my babies water, not orange juice. I think water is better for their teeth, but occasional very dilated juice is probably OK. You could maybe try a straw in a cup of water? One of my friends did this for her baby who wouldn't take a bottle.