Bottle to cup??

[MegO]

My 9 month old DD refuses to drink from a cup, I have a cupboard full of every make and model it would seem and she will not even try. She usually ends up throwing the cup aside and would rather dehydrate than drink from a cup (as I've tried when she's thirsty, when not etc.). What am I doing wrong, or has anyone any helpful ideas??

DS won't drink from his cup but will always have a drink from MY cup! He is nearly 8mths and still on a bottle most of the time. I'm trying not to worry about it but pretty soon he's going to have teeth and I really will have to stop bottle feeding.

I have the same problem with my ds (10mths) who likes playing with the cups and chewing them but won't suck or drink if I try just a cup cup and ends up awash with juice.

are you meant to stop bottle feeding when they get teeth?! lordy I'm useless at this.

No, it's just that DS is drinking juice from a bottle and apparently that can be very bad for teeth, so would ideally love him to have at least his juice from a cup. Don't think I'll be able to wean him off his milk bottles for a very long time

Is it true that giving a milk bottle can effect their teeth.

I heard that it can be bad for teeth if you use a bottle with either juice or milk..MegO does ur dd drink juice?

Get a doidee cup. They are brillian! I'll find a link.

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I've heard that juice in a bottle is bad for teeth too. What's wrong with a beaker or have you tried that? I think she's quite young to go to a cup and use if properly rather than play with it or make poor (pour!) attempts at copying!

A dentist explained it to me this way ... said that juice in a bottle is bad because all the sugar is held against the front teeth for a long time. It's like bathing the baby's teeth with sugar. Drinking from a beaker or cup doesn't create the same problems. Milk is fine, apparently, even though it contains sugars too ? don't know if this is either because milk is such an important part of their diet it's a trade off, or perhaps the sugar in milk is less of a problem. But you still shouldn't let babies wonder round with a bottle of milk ? they should drink the milk and you take the bottle away when they've finished.
Juice is best kept for meal times, apparently, because then there's plenty of saliva to wash the sugars away from the teeth. To be honest, I don't bother giving ds any juice at all, he gets water or milk. Gets plenty of fruit at mealtimes so won't go short of vitamin C. Plus fruit juice gives them a sweet tooth ? I know he'll get a taste for sugar at some stage, just want to postpone the evil moment as long as possible.

Thanks for the replies, in answer to ebbie22 no I don't give her juice just milk and water in the bottle. I have tried juice in a cup to try and tempt her but she's still not interested. Don't know about the stopping bottle feeds when teeth arrive however (alicatsg), as my DD has 3 and another on the way, all very well but I'm not going to let her dehydrate because she won't drink from a cup. I think that it's something she'll eventually get and I'm trying not to get too stressed about it, might try the drinking from my cup though

MegO, whatever you're putting in the bottle that isn't the issue, its getting her to drink from a cup isn't it? I wouldn't worry about it at all at 9 mos and certainly wouldn't consider dropping the bottle for milk. Mine is happy with a beaker but LOVES a cup if she can get it and can drink through a straw..... but she's 17 mos and it just seemed to happen naturally over the last 4 months or so with a lot of experimentation with pouring stuff out, putting things in the cup and dribbling liquid out. Just leave them around, let her see you using a cup and she'll probably be desperate to get hold of it, especially if you've got a nice china cup! But don't worry about it now is my advice :)