Anyone started FF from a cup not a bottle? At what age?

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Hi there - DD2 is currently 7 months and up until now has been EBF. She has always downright refused to take a bottle, and so when we started solids at 6 months, I started giving her a sippee cup with her meals to get used to (tommee tippee type with no valve).

She seems to take some water or milk from this, but its hard to tell as there is so much spillage. I've been giving her formula with her breakfast and tea, and water at lunch, with the aim of getting her onto just BF morning and evening (and nights, sigh) - so she can go to the childminders all day and be happy without me when I go back to work. I'm not sure when I want to stop BF, as its quite handy for the night feeds, but I'm in no way wedded to continuing it for very long.

But... I am worried that a baby this young can't take enough milk from a cup as opposed to a bottle, and that I'll somehow be starving her of milk during the day so she'll wake up more at night. Is this totally irrational? My mum says that I was fed from a cup after 6 months, so I assume its possible.

Has anyone else exclusively fed from a cup rather than a bottle, and at what age? Please tell me its OK!

I am currently trying to get DS2 to drink from a cup. He is BF at mo. He is 7 and half months. Not much luck so far but early days imo. I think as they get older they get batter at it iyswim.

I'm not back to work till he is 11 months so I am not panicking yet.

I am going to try some different cups though as the ones he has are quite hard to get hold of. Hienz used to do some really good ones that my other two used but I haven't seen them in the shops for a while now...

ds started getting formula from a cup from 9 months old and was off bottles by 10 1/2 months. I used avent magic cups and a cow print cup for milk - I used them with the valves in but they can be removed to make them free-flowing.

Mmmm, you see DD1 accepted bottles, so she had EBM in bottles until she was 1. She had cups before then for water, but I never expected her to take as much water as she needed to take for a milk feed IYSWIM. I don't think its the type of cup, as DD2 is taking a reasonable amount from the TT cup, its just that I'm thinking 7 months is just too young?

I would imagine its all about practice and getting used to the cup. DS started off only taking a small amount from the cup but over time the amount increased and he would take a full large Avent cup of milk.

Ds went straight from bf to cup (formula) with no ill effects - but I didn't totally stop bf until he was a year (was only bfing morning and evening for the last couple of months though)

It is definately, definately worth trying out different cups - my two both had very different cup preferences!

Okey dokey, will also try some other cups to see if we can get less spillage, so I get an idea of how much she really is taking. Cheers m'dears.