Switching to beakers?

[deedar]

My boys are nearly a year and supposedly should now exclusively drink from beakers not bottles according to HV. But I can't get them to drink more than a few sips of milk or water from a bottle and am worried that they'll just stop drinking enough milk if I drop bottles.

Does anyone know how I'm supposed to do it - do I just stop bottles completely and hope they start drinking more, or should I switch to the beaker one milk feed at a time? Or just ignore HV and carry on with bottles?

You have a few options- you could try out different types of beakers with different spouts, or you could simply let them drink from a cup with no lid. I wouldn't worry too much about getting them onto beakers, or off bottles- it will happen eventually. They are only small. Just have beakers available, dotted within reach around the rooms they play in and curiosity might help them get used to them.

Hi!
First of all, I'm not an expert, but I know lots of Mums who still use bottles past a year old, so don't worry too much about this. We used these as a stepping stone to an open cup and I still use them if DD is playing as I know she'll just knock an open cup over! She adapted to these pretty quickly and I'm now starting to use the same one but a bit smaller with handles with DS who is 7m as I've BF and am having a bash at missing out bottles all together! This type of cup was recommended to me as the non-spill type are hard to get much from, where as these are free flow and easy to get liquid from. All I'd say is keep a couple for Milk and a couple for water/juice only as they do start to smell when they've had milk in even if the go in the dish washer or steriliser!!

HTH!

Thanks both of you. Really useful advice. I will just take it slowly and ignore HV - much as usual really!