Bottle to beaker - what's the best thing to do?

[scaryhairycat]

My dd is nearly 5 months and acts very oddly when I present her with a beaker. I tried a few times several weeks ago just to see if she would take it, and she hated it and cried and cried. So I gave up and carried on with the bottle.
I thought I would give it another go this morning and she drank half of it no problem at all (she can definitely get at the milk ok), and then she started to look at what she was drinking, pulling it towards her then pushing it away - staring at it the whole time, and then suddenly burst into tears! It was almost like she doesn't like the look of it rather than anything else!
She did the same thing again at the next feed only drank less (about quarter) before she started pulling it about and looking at it and she is due another feed now and I don't know whether to keep persisting with the beaker or just give her a bottle. Would it be better be persistent? (as seen as she has no trouble actually drinking from it)Or would that be being too pushy with her? My son took to them at 4 months no problem at all!

I don't really mind if she is on beakers now or not, but now that I've started giving them, if she does not get used to them now will it put her off even more in the future, iykwim? TIA

Just gave her another feed in one and she cried as soon as she saw it but then started to drink her milk. She kept stopping and crying (about three times) and drank about two thirds in total. (she usually clears a bottle when she has one) I think the milk comes out a bit too quickly for her as it is an anyway up cup that I have stretched the suction hole on(!) (as it was too hard to suck originally) so maybe I should leave it until when she is older and more able to cope with the big mouthfuls of milk.
Or any suggestions on a different beaker? Or those beaker bottles - are they any good?

Are you in a particular rush to get rid of bottles? - it is advised to have them off them by 1 year so you have plenty of time to phase them out in the months to come.

When I started with beakers I only offered water in them at mealtimes and didnt attempt to replace a milk feed till ds was 9 months and then I only offered it for one of the feeds. Once he took that feed ok I started replacing the other feeds with the beaker and he was off bottles by 10 1/2 months.

No, I'm in no particular hurry, it's just she kept wanting to hold the bottle herself so I thought I might as well get her a beaker to do that,(rather than those gripper bottles) as I did the same with my son and he took to it fine. Saves buying two lots of bottle/beaker things!
What you did sounds like a good idea actually, I don't think I will persist with it for now as I think it is flowing a bit too fast for her, which is probably why she fusses with it. Introducing it one feed a day sounds like a much better idea, and using it for water to start with too - I think I will try that when she's a bit older, thankyou!