When to introduce a cup?

[joa]

DD is 17w and I'm going back to work when she is 5.5m for 2 days a week. She has been exclusively breastfed and I definately want her to make it to 6 months and beyond and as I have no problems expressing there is no reason why not, except she isn't exactly keen on bottles...
I was wondering whether it would be a lot easier to just introduce a cup rather than faff around with bottles. What age can I start doing this? And do you just try letting them play with it with water in or actually give milk feeds? (thinking this could get messy...)

we went from bf to cup with two of our three who simply didn't rate bottles...we're talking utter refusal here.
you may have to try a few different types of cup, our cupboard is testimony to that... the tommy tippee sort with spout worked for mine, though DD who couldn't get the hang of sucking had a little tommy tippee thing with no spill-proofing thing, the liquid just poured out slowly and she got the idea. ok so you need a bit of a catchers mitt but you'd never leave lo unsupervised so IMO it doesn't matter if you have to do a bit of 'fielding'!
Intoducing the cups worked best with very warm breastmilk - don't know why it had to be so warm, but it certainly did for my lot. breastmilk was the thing they were most familiar with - obv, and they were not daft and wouldn't touch water to begin with. A month or so later they would have milk or water from the cup.
good luck!!

does my post make a flippin word of sense? translation to follow

Well for the last 3 days she has decided that she will take a few ozs from a TT closer to nature bottle (changed to a faster teat), so hopefully this means she won't dehydrate at nursery! Mind you, I have to position her in a certain way- lying on a cushion on my lap a bit like the way she bfs!- I think I might try with a cup as well though, so thanks for your tips about warm milk!