From Bottles to Beakers......

[Corky]

I have a nearly 11month old dd who drinks formula milk 3 times a day from a bottle & teat.

With food I try offering her a single hole beaker from Boots filled with water. Its taken me months, but now she occassionally has a few sips at each meal.

I've tried the avent spouts but she just chews them and I didn't get anywhere with it.

Should I now try and give her the milk from this beaker and just persevere? My problem is she has a very erratic appetite and her milk is important as she doesn't always have 3 meals a day.

I keep hearing the 'be hard' approach and just take away the bottles and move straight to beakers. What to do!

With both our ds's we switched 'daytime' drinks (whether milk or water) to beakers from about this point. I think it co-incides with them usefully being able to hold their own beaker at the table/ highchair. However we kept bottles for early morning milk and bedtime milk until later, as these were still quite 'cuddly'/ wind down times and I always found a bottle better for this AND they tended to finish a bottle, but not a beaker.