Cups for water and milk

[Melissac88]

Hi just wondering what others have done with weaning off formula in terms of putting milk in the same cup as LO drinks water in, or have a different one just for milk?

My 14 month old is still having a bottle of formula first thing in morning and last before bed. The times are fine but I want to get her off bottles and onto cows milk in a cup. She's great with her water and has a tumtum cup with a straw for that. Last time I tried some cows milk in it she looked me very confused! But she has cows milk in her porridge so is fine with it. Can I have some advice as to what any of you did /what they drank cows milk from when weaned off? I'm hoping to do a straight switch instead of going through weaning off gradually with a combo of cows milk and formula and gradually increasing etc unless she really doesn't want it

Either is fine. Use the same cups or have different ones. It really doesn't matter. Get a few cups and see which she prefers.

The only thing I would say is choose one with as few parts as possible as they can be difficult to clean and old milk is gross. I'd go classic Tommee Tippee, no straws or anything. But if your baby doesn't like that type of cup, use whatever, just clean thoroughly!

I've just done this change. We went for 360 Munchkin cups because I can't properly clean the spouts on LO's other water cups, and LO is still a messy drinker which is fine with water but definitely not with milk! But we still give water from the milk cup IYSWIM.

I did mix the cows milk and the formula together until LO was down to 40% formula, then I fully switched. No problems. I am a vitamin supplement to the bed time milk (one with the NHS recommended vits & minerals). I have found LO drinks less cows milk than formula - probably 2oz/60ml less both morning and evening, which surprised me. Probably drinking about 180ml total in the day, maybe less. I use milk in cereal, cheese and Greek yoghurt to get the calcium in the rest of the day.

Either the classic tommee Tippee or Nuby.

Less parts the better and make sure you remove all parts and wash them properly as they can get REALLY gross inside!

Just give it to her in a tum tum cup. They are the best (straw and no valve) and she’s not having to learn to use a different type of cup that she’ll never use again in life (360 or sippy). The only other alternative is open cup but that’s stressful in all sorts of different ways. If she wants milk she’ll drink it, if she doesn’t then no worries. They don’t need it if having other forms of calcium (hope she just stops - it’s the absolute best!)