Drinking milk from cups

[sunshine75]

Dd is almost 9 months but i'm thinking ahead here.

Probably going to bf until 1 year (ish)but then would like to get my body/boobs/periods/life etc back. Anyway she will take a bottle well and last week when she stayed at my parents my mum tried to give her milk from a sippy cup. She did this quite well but gave up after about 4oz. When my mum tried her witha bottle she wolfed the rest down.

Anyway, to get back to the point. Can I just give her morning and bedtime milk from a sippy cup after a year? Will she be better at drinking it then?

Anyone gone from breast to cup and how did it work?

have you tried doidy cups?

i am still bf DS2 (nearly 1) but in the day he has water from a doidy cup and has done so since 9 months when i went back to work.

to be honest, he often manages with the little ubiquitous beakers from IKEA now, but he started with the doidy to get him used to the rim.

we hold it for him or it would just go everywhere, but he never had a bottle and we didn't want to introduce one or a sippy cup, so went straight for this. he has known nothing else and is perfectly happy with it.

Start now, my DD takes a bottle of milk in the morning and at bedtime and milk or water in a cup mid afternoon. Next week I'm ditching the morning bottle for a cup and plan to get rid of bottles by a year.

My DS 3.5 only gave up his bedtime and morning bottle at 2.5 because I forgot to take a bottle when I went to visit my mum and had to buy a new one. He refused it so we stopped the bottle!

Forgot to say DD is 8 months and uses either basic Tommee tippee sippy cup or Anyway up cup.

I go back to work at 11 months so I want her to take her afternoon milk from a cup by then. Hopefully when i stop bf she will do morning and night the same.

Will have a look at the doidy cups, thanks

The doidy's are fine, but they still chuck the contents everywhere. Don't spend a load of money on cups an open cup will do the same job.

I think it does take a while for them to get used to the different technique in taking from a sippy cup rather than a bottle. I (tried) to start giving ds water/juice from sippy cups at this age and we tried lots of different ones until we found one that suited him.
We stopped giving milk in a bottle at about 16 months (so about 5/6 weeks ago) he can drink it fine, but tends to prefer tipping it onto the floor. Personally once we decided to stop the bottle, there was no going back