9 month shouldn't be having bottles anymore?

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My HV is saying that at 9 months DD should be started to be weaned off her bottles and she should be using cups now.

She'll have her juice in a tommee tippee type cup but will not have her milk in them as her bottle is her morning and night thing.

M HV seems to think that she shouldn't be having these anymore and should really be on cups without lids by 12m?

Is she nuts and can I just ignore her or should I be expecting DD to do these?

My HV said the same thing, but I still give Dd (22mos) a sippy cup. They're thinking is that teats affect their teeth and cause rotting etc. I don't give anything but water and cows milk in cups, otherwise it's breast milk.

*their thinking.

just do what you feel is right for your DD and ignore the HV. i know that they say it's bad for little one's teeth, but as she is drinking from a cup during the day and as long as the juice is only with meals, she should be fine. my DS, now 7, had a bottle till 16 months and he is blessed with a fine set of gnashers

Oh She has juice in her cup and there is one on hand for her whenever she wants it. What damage is this likely to do? She doesn't have teeth yet but....

i was told by my dentist, that it could damage milk teeth before they come out, so normally give fruit, biscuits, diluted juice
or treats with a meal and not in between. it is easier getting little ones used to drinking water at a small age, as they don't know any better. i'm only a little wiser with the second one

Most kids I know used bottles up to (and sometimes beyond) 1. She's right in saying you need to help her graduate from bottles onto cups, but to be worried at 9mo? Naaah!

So she can still have her morning and evening bottles and she can have juice with meals but in between should be either milk (can she have cows milk yet, if not, why? - sorry but just nosy) or water! Ok I can do that!! lol

confusing one!! there is cow's milk in baby yoghurts, but the hv brigade states that no milk from the grass eating devils should pass baby lips until they have reached the ripe old age that is 12 months

Yeh thats what I thought I'd heard but was interested to know why at 12m they are suddenly cows milk tolerant. I'll listen cos I know no better but just wondered.

confusing being a parent, so it only takes one "professional" to tell us all how to raise our kids and we believe them totally. chances are, they will most probably change the rules again in a few months just to annoy us you sound like a really caring mum and it's a learning curve, so just do what you feel is best for your little one

cows milk doesnt have enough vitamins or iron to be the main drink before 1 year. DS did have the odd drink of it from 9 months but didnt fully go onto it till he was 1. It is recommended to finish with bottles for milk by the age of 1 and dd was off them by 15 months and ds was off them by 10 1/2 months. I started offering 1 feed a day to ds from a lidded cup from the age of 9 months and he took it so well (after a few days trying) that I offered more and more feeds from the cup. DS started having an open cup with his meals at the table from about 18 months but he gets his milk in a lidded cup as it is much less messy.

She is nuts. Yes, it's a good idea to gradually move away from bottles by the age of about 12m, but it's not a hard and fast rule.

As long as she doesn't go to sleep with a bottle or cup in her mouth, or in any way keep a bottle or cup in her mouth for extended periods, she should be fine. It's the constant drip drip drip of sugar-containing liquids into the mouth and onto the teeth that's the problem.

Try if you can not to use Anywayup cups, or any cup that requires hard sucking to get the liquid out, as they are apparently just as bad for the teeth as bottles.

As for cups without lids by 12m...is she going to do the mopping-up for you?