From bottles to beakers, please recommend one that ds will drink out of...

[LisaLessLumpy]

DS is nearly 9 months and I want to give him two of his milk feeds out of a beaker instead of the bottle. He will drink water out of his Tommee Tippee no problems (if I hold it for him)but he won't drink milk out of it. The Avent Magic Trainer Cup is too fast flowing so he won't drink out of it ( he is still on 2 hole teats on his bottle) and the Anywayup cup is too difficult for him to get any out.

Does anyone have any recommendations on a cup/non baby bottle I can try? I don't want to leave it too much longer as I left it too long with ds1 and he won't drink milk out of anything other than a bottle, so I stopped giving him milk sooner than I would have liked.

Thanks

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From what you have said he is not ready to learn to drink out of a cup until he can manage a teat with a faster flow. How about moving up to teats with three holes first? I would guess he just takes sips of water but to take several oz of milk from a faster flow might be difficult and overwhelming? Does he take the cup and realise it has milk in it or is he refusing it because he thinks he is being offered water not milk? I use avent bottles and you can use the cup sippy bits with them - this would then look like the bottle of milk but just with different mouthpiece on it - do you think that might help?

He will have a good few gulps of water out of the tommee tipee though and seems fine with it. He will readily try the other cups and have a few gulps but then refuses it because it is coming out too fast I think. I will try the bottles with faster teats first like you said, but still keep giving him water in the beaker and then try again in a week or so

If anyone has any other cup/bottle recommendations I can try though it would be appreciated. I also think the non spill ones should be avoided as the experience I have had of them so far is that they are incredibly difficult to get any liquid out of them. Surely this is worse for their teeth if they are having to suck extra hard?

Not sure about the effect on teath, but I started by using the avent drinking spout without the non spill valve on it and then have recently added it - not sure if you can remove from other cups? I'll do a search and see if i can find the cups I seen my friends babies use!

It was the tommee tippee easiflow one friend used - not sure if it is the same as you? She liked it because she thought it would feel like teat in the babies mouth. She then progressed to what I would call a toddler sports cup - looks like it has a straw type thing to suck on - she manages it well but quite a fast flow I think

I'd stick with the Tommee Tippee one - I have tried a fair few different types! They soon get used to the fast flow, DS2 is 10mo and has recently mastered his after a couple of months of getting used to it.

obviously a tommy tippee fan - its the easiflow insulated!

Have you tried a doidy?

Thanks for the replies. I will keep at it for a bit, he is only 8.5 mths after all. I'll try the faster flow teats and keep with the TT

I've been using the Doidy cup since 6 months. She likes it a lot and drinks both water and milk (only a couple of gulps, but she's 7 months so still learning). It can be messy because it's open, but it's also fun when she pours it down her face.

I've heard lots of good things about the Vitalbaby range (used to be Heniz baby basics) you can get them from Boots. Brought the toddler cups today and will be aiming to give milk from it tmw so wtch this space!

Use tommee tippee for water when we're out and a doidy at home.

I use the kids on the go beakers but P will only take a small amount of milk from them. L flat refused to use anything other than a bottle til he was about 3 .

I do wonder whether the milk tastes different in a beaker. I assume that it hits a different part of the mouth and as tastebuds are arranged in lines (sort of) I reckon the milk must feel different when it hits the front of the mouth than when it hits the back (when bottle or breast feeding (or that could just be crazy talk)

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