help getting 10 mth baby from bottle to cup

melg1973

My daughter is nearly 10 months old and I am having trouble getting her to drink from anything but a bottle. She has 3 bottles of milk a day and offer her water from a bottle throughout the day. Every time I have tried a cup (of varying types and brands - both free flow and easy spouts) she doesn't want to know whether that be me holding it to her mouth or her picking it up (if she does pick it up its with one hand and then throws it).

Is there anyway to help her along with this or is it just a case of she will do it when shes ready? When you hear about babies drinking from a cup from 6 months is that actually the baby holding it themselves and drinking from it or mum holding it to babies mouth?

ariba10

I would only worry about it if she still had it when she started school.

If you listen to other mothers and make comparisons with everything you will finish up suicidal.

I take it it is your first child?

fernliebee

My 7 month old drinks from a cup, she can hold it herself and drink but only if there is half a cup in there. If the cup is full it's too heavy for her, and if it's too empty she can't tip it back far enough She has had a cup since 5 1/2 months but I would hold it for her. It has taken a while for her to properly drink from it though, as she would take big gulps and spit most of it out. I think it takes a while to get used to a new action. I don't know much about taking away bottle though as she just went straight onto a cup from b/f so hope someone else will be along soon to help ya. I think there have been a few recent threads on this too if you have a search.

Edit: Didn't mean this post to sound boasting, just meant to say that it takes a while for them to learn to do it iyswim!

fernliebee

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1442541

melg1973

ariba10 wrote: »

I would only worry about it if she still had it when she started school.

If you listen to other mothers and make comparisons with everything you will finish up suicidal.

I take it it is your first child?

Yes it is and none of my friends have children and I didn't join any groups or anything so am finding it hard to know what to do apart from reading books/internet. All I get from mum/mum in law is it was all different in our day.........

Curious_George_2

hi, my son is nearly 15 months old and has all his drinks from his bottle,
ive tried him on a doidy cup a few times and i think he likes it but him and everything around him gets soaked... and thats not always practical!
im happy enough for him to continue with a bottle for now.... (despite any guidelines there might be...)
i cant remember when my DD gave up her bottles but she was older than my DS because we agreed to give the bottles to the bottle fairy (or it might have been santa) for all the new babies

just remember, you may have read all the baby books etc, but your daughter has not! she will do everything in her own time xx

Felicity

Hi,

My 15 month old has 3 bottles (yes, bottles, eeks!!!) of milk a day ... despite many frowns from other Mums. He loves his bottles and it gives him comfort so I am going with it. He drinks a bottle straight down so no prolonged contact with teeth.

Saying that, I am going to now try and give him his afternoon bottle in a cup soon.

His night bottles I will keep as they are for now as I really think it is best 'for him'.

He drinks lots of water from cups during the day, it took a while but just keep trying. We started with the Tomy cups and eventually he got that, now he also has a bottle with a straw which again took a while for him to get the hang of but he loves it now.

Keep trying and there is absolutely no rush. I find with certain things you think they are never going to get the hang of it and then suddenly they do!

Don't worry about what other people say (within reason) do what you think is best for the health and happiness of your baby.

Good luck!

horse76

My dd was on her bottle until 18 months, but drank water from her sippy cup from about 12 months. I never gave it a thought before she was 1 year old.

The reason I eventually took her off it, was because I didn't want it affecting the position of her front teeth. It was a battle at first, but I threw all her bottles in the bin, so I couldn't give-in and give her bottle back to her. She refused her milk for more than a fortnight - wanted her bottle back. I just ignored her and eventually she picked her cup of milk up one day and drank it. Was more worried her missing out on the milk that fortnight, but made sure she got plently yoghurts, milk & cereal, cheese etc.

I probably wouldn't worry about it at the moment, but suppose the longer a child has to get used/ attatched to something then the harder it is to take it away.

Good luck when you do give it a go.

Marcheline

Hiya, my daughter was similar to fernlibee's: she took to drinking from a cup quite easily from early on, starting at first with me holding it and her sipping from it. Then at about 7 months, she was on the cup.

Although she liked the bottle, I just stopped giving it to her to get her onto a cup. I found it helpful to give her an empty tommee tippee cup to play with along with her toys, so that she got used to the idea of holding it and messing with it. Once she was used to chewing on it etc. she took to drinking from it quite easily.

ariba10

One of my nieces was walking at 10 months but you could not understand a word of what she said until she turned 2 years.
She is now well up in the nursing profession

Not all children are the same (nor should they be) .

!0 months is a wonderful age. Enjoy her growing up and try not to make comparisons.

MadMonkey

My ds2 is 2 years and 4 months and he will only drink out of a bottle

We currently own 8 different toddler cups but he refuses point blank to drink out of them.

I have been told by various people to throw away the bottles and force him to use cups - personally i think it's cruel !

I am sure he will be drinking out of a cup by the time he goes to school !

I do get funny looks when out and about but yu know what i do not care !

I have three children and i have learnt not to sweat the small stuff - it just makes life so much harder.

All kids have little habits that you might prefer they didn't but that's what's make them unique:T

I am sure he will switch to a glass when he is 18 and ordering a pin of lager:cool: