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Bottle vs cup

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Alibobster · 13/04/2007 10:37

Morning

When should I start giving ds milk in a cup rather than a bottle. Don't think I need to worry yet as he's only 91/2 months but just wondered?

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MerryMarigold · 13/04/2007 10:39

well, the advice is a year old. however, my ds is 16 mo and won't drink milk out of a cup (or only small amounts/ sips) so still has 1 bottle a day at bedtime.

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Alibobster · 13/04/2007 10:41

Thanks MerryMarigold

I seem to be having opposite problem. DS will only take bottle if we distract him or give him something to play with - it seems as if he's getting fed up with milk

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MerryMarigold · 13/04/2007 11:05

He may be teething. My ds went through this at times. At 9.5 months it is important he still drinks loads of milk though, so you could try a cup, it he will take it that way. I'm sure it doesn't matter if they drink from a cup earlier. Also he can eat cereal, and could try putting some milk in his food. Another thing to be wary of...

With my ds I got so into feeding him solids, I think he went off milk because he was full of food. Try and prioritise the milk. The food isn't really important till 1 year, so for example, milk before b'fast is better than eating b'fast and not drinking milk. I didn't realise I was doing this as I was bfeeding and couldn't measure how much he was drinking, but looking back, I think this is what happened, and his weight dropped down in the centiles quite dramatically.

MerryMarigold · 13/04/2007 11:06

his weight gain was very, very slow despite the fact he was eating quite well, he just wasn't getting enough milk (I think now, with hindsight).

DebitheScot · 13/04/2007 11:18

I'm trying to get ds (nearly 1) to take milk out of a beaker but he's resisting. He has happily drunk juice from beaker for months but doesn't want to drink his morning milk from the beaker. Takes a few sips then moans. We have been persisting with it and hopefully after a few days he'll be fine. This morning he drank more than yesterday so thats a good sign. He still has bedtime milk from a bottle, maybe we should give that in beaker too to avoid any confusion.

Alibobster I'd suggest giving him milk sometimes, maybe in afternoon from a beaker so he gets used to beakers giving him milk and juice. Thats what I think I should have done.

MerryMarigold · 13/04/2007 11:26

Yes, deb agree about the beaker thing. Prob is, he never drinks much water out of the beaker either - only really during meals. I think he only drinks out of the bottle because he likes the sucking, not because he wants the milk. Never been a big drinker.

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Alibobster · 13/04/2007 15:23

Thanks Gals

I usually give a bottle at 7am, which is nearly always finished and then one at 10am, and the last few days the 10am bottle has hardly been touched. Today I didn't give it till 12pm and he nearly took it all. Maybe at 10am he's still full from breakfast.

I mentioned it to my HV and she said that as he gets other milk products in his diet, i.e yoghurt, cheese, milk on cereal, not to worry about it too much.

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mrsbabookaloo · 17/04/2007 17:27

Can I join in on this one? I'm trying to get my 10 month old dd to take her milk from a cup instead of a bottle...trying to be good and follow guidelines of getting baby off bottle by the time she's one. She drinks water fine from a sippy free flow cup, although not great quantities. When I give her milk I'm using a magic cup with a valve, so she has to suck and it's somewhat similar to a bottle, but she just takes a sip or two and and then rejects it. It's very disheartening. We've been doing it for about a week; we started just with the afternoon bottle but then I thought I'd better be more consistent and she might do better when she's hungrier so now I'm trying first thing in the morning and mid morning too. Only the night time feed I'm still giving her a bottle, because I hate the thought of her going to bed without her milk!
She probably doesn't need as much milk as she was having: she eats pretty well, and I know I probably just need to be patient and she'll get used to the cup, but if anyone has any words of encouragement or different ideas, that would be great...
Sorry for overlong post!

babyonboard · 17/04/2007 17:49

We had big success with teaching DS to drink from a straw, you can get cups with a sealed lid and a straw in them, but my DS preferrred a straw in a 'grown up' glass.

Coriander73 · 17/04/2007 19:40

FWIW, instead of trying to give up the bottle why not replace the teat with a spout - something like the Avent magic ones for example? We stopped using teats with DD when she approached 1 & has no subsquent problems with her speech or mouth etc (she's now coming on for 3). DS is 7 months & I have just started using a diddy cup with him for water at mealtimes & intend to replace his teats when he is 1 also. HTH

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