Should I introduce a bottle or go straight to cup?

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please could I have some advice about combination breast/bottle feeding from anyone with experience?

my baby is 6 months old now and weaning is going well. I have been meaning to try introduce a bottle of expressed breast milk for months but just not got around to it. Is it too late to try now and should I go straight to cup? Or is it worth a go?

I’d personally go with a cup as really bottles should begin to be phased out by 12mo and it seems like a waste to buy them! However, if you want to do bottles there’s no harm in that either. Maybe practice with water first if it’s a cup, I seem to remember it being quite messy at first!

Thanks @yogpot, bottles do seem a faff if we can avoid them. I’m wondering if having a bottle would help her settle better when I’m not there, at the moment she is a total boob monster but will settle with cuddles from dh occasionally. I have a very rare night out planned in 3 months and want to be able to leave her with as little stress as possible!

what about a nuk cup it has a teat like spout

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NUK-Orthodontic-Leak-Proof-Anti-Colic-Temperature/dp/B0BG6XXCKS/ref=sr_1_10?crid=NC2SBA856JNT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.V8gX3JQ25K8J_RRXOxkQRB823xb05-bAZz_00vXaS9Gq8tg93IgPvZ01GTYbQVGtecwnafS0ZBW-NUtrP2go0JO5cpR5F8ANZujKVOfNBt1F-z8SXh5fGCvPyP6eMHc0vfNOVEmjdI3YjXCkN8j-HaI9YEVrjAQmO0z0drHI2dz7Nz1VdeWlSV2FKgLkhTqU_Pr4DySw9HpfdQ8QPu3-7zcjLSnG9o-FTb3F2RGxOKOadC99lrpp_B_OGmmhPjCNPra1eL2QcKz6CNvRI3J8DHtvCLmwWiOe_wdCyWEFCH1K1eG9-OwMyMAmNnjXt4iJiPhVtznNoUx4R5HO8C_lqLnbCD_XjZTLz0Xg-5c1LKX72taB84CEPFTKhi3goD5FV-aBLzN_dSw1O-frko4G3fCDISy_ly_HDSw7OQN49W-7slsILuaCSqlqs7pNdGvF.abvA8o8jcdq18kbuCWDKI89TkQYAI6X7EOnNbJyNxlg&dib_tag=se&keywords=nuk%2Bcup&qid=1741003971&sprefix=nuk%2Bcup%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-10&th=1

I'd go for a cup, it goes with the weaning nicely. That's what we did.

I think it's very baby dependent. Two of mine went straight to a cup but the other two wouldn't drink milk from a cup, it took a lot of buying bottles to get them to drink expressed milk.