Tell me about the doidy cup please

[Neeko]

DD2 is eleven weeks. We have tried to introduce a bottle of EBM for 9 weeks now with no joy. Have finally come round to the idea that it probably won't happen, but would like some method of others being able to feed her if I'm not there.
Has anyone used a doidy cup? If so, from what age and how successful was it?
Thanks.

I had the same problem with my ds. We eventually started trying him with doidy cups when he was about 5 mo (although I think the cups are marketed as suitable for 4 mo +). Didn't seem much point trying earlier because they need a reasonable degree of head control. It was a fairly long and messy process but he got the hang of it sufficiently well by 7 mo to enable me to leave him overnight. HTH.

Great help. Thanks DD2 has really good head control for her age so might be able to try it sooner. How regularly did you have to use it for him to get the hang of it?

We probably weren't as consistent as we ought to have been. I think we'd have a week of trying the cup for one feed every day (usually when I was staying with my mother or MIL as ds was more cooperative with someone other than me, presumably because they didn't smell all nice and milky) and then a couple of weeks of more sporadic efforts, usually at the weekend or when dh got home from work. Ds perhaps would've got the hang of it sooner if we'd done it more regularly.

Anyway, good luck with it. I think I'll be doing the whole exercise again with my dd, who is just a couple of weeks older than your dd2, and who also hasn't taken a bottle yet....

I started at about 5 months as well but DD really only starting to get the hang of it now at 6 months. Partly though due to her not knowing what to do with the milk once it was in her mouth and letting it run out the sides!

Thanks again. I can't believe how common bottle refusing is. DD1 took one no problem and I had no idea. Bet it's just the first of many surprises that she's got in store for me! Good luck to you too.

X-post PaulineCampbellJones Yay to another one having success. This has given me hope

We used a tiny one when DS was two days old as we had difficulty establising BF and I didn;t want to try a bottle. I got it off a bf counsellor. As long as you are supporting them then head control isn't really an issue. It IS very messy though! Good luck.

Doidy cup didn't work for us, nothing did till they were both past six months

But lots of people tell me good things about them.