Moving on from bottles with teats at 12 months

NoreenOMS

Hi all, looking for some recommendations of cups. My son will be 1 soon, and we want to move on from bottles for his milk (still has 3 a day- one first thing, one mid morning and one before bed)

He uses a Tommee Tippee essentials free flowing beaker for his water. He gets in well with this, but i have read that milk should bd given in a different type cup/ bottle otherwise may start rejecting warer. I have looked in the supermarkets, boots and Mothercare- but the cups in there all seem to have flexible teat type tops- which seem to me to defeat the point of moving away from bottles with teats- also they are mainly " non spill" which is frowned open by the baby books as they allow the milk to swill around their mouths like teats - which bath their teeth in sugar.

He isn't ready for a cup without a lid- he still sits in our arms to have his milk- but holds the bottle himself- but think it would be everywhere without a lid!!

Can anyone recommend a suitable cup?

Thanks

lolly_896

We used http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Babies-R-Us/Feeding/Weaning/Cups/Tommee-Tippee-Explora-Green-Active-Sipper-Cup%280070876%29 style. Always removed the white bit inside which is the non spill thing and it becomes free flow

hth Lolly

Waffle_On

We used this style http://www.tommeetippee.co.uk/product/first_cup_4_months/

I started out by holding him in an upright bottle feeding position, and feeding it to him in the same way as a bottle. My son happily swapped from bottle to cup and we used the same type for water as for milk.

NoreenOMS

Hi Lolly, thanks for your msg. We tried something similar to this when he first started water - http://m.toysrus.co.uk/Babies-R-Us/Feeding/Weaning/Cups/Tommee-Tippee-Explora-1st-Sips-Cup-Pink/0070886?searchPosition=17

So, if we just remove the white parts then, it will be free flow? If so, I guess we could give this a go- and as long as it goes ok, get a big one like the one you have posted ( the one we brought several months ago like the I posted is only 150ml, and still trying to get him to have minimum of 200ml per bottle)

Nicki

I found when we moved from bottles to cups that my children always drank a lot less milk than they had before, and age 1 was a bit young for them to be doing so. So, I am afraid that I let them hang on to at least the bedtime bottle for quite a bit longer than that. Daytime drinks of milk were either from the same cup they had other drinks from or an open cup depending on the circumstances, and did not lead to them refusing either water or milk in its entirety.

The major issue AFAIK is letting a child take a bottle to bed with them, and so be sucking on and off on a teat all night. One bottle drunk quickly before bed is only one sugar attack on the teeth so less problematic. My kids otherwise had good diets with limited sweets and sugary drinks and a good tooth brushing technique and now aged 11, 12 and just about to turn 3 none of them have ever had any dental issues or cavities (aside from two of them having accidents where they knocked teeth back into their gums but that was due to violent impacts on falls rather than any vulnerability with the teeth themselves)

madtrekker

I have to say that my daughter was fine using the Tommee Tippee free-flow cup for milk or water. I didn't bother having separate cups for different drinks. We never used bottles but when we weaned from breast to cows milk, I just put it in the cup that she'd used for water and she was fine. She was never a big water drinker but I don't think she drank any less after introducing milk in a cup.

Stitch2012

I moved mine straight to a straw cup, she's 18 months now and drinks brilliantly from it, I found the little sippy cups were rubbish, but what works for one may not work for another

maman

I'd certainly stick with the bedtime bottle and the cuddle that goes with it:).

Hot chocolate at some point in the day (esp with cold weather round the corner) is good to encourage plenty of milk.

Beyond that I'd just give water except for special occasions.

mildred1978

My son is 27 months and still has a bottle at night. He doesn't go to sleep with it, and as a thumb sucker I doubt the bottle is doing him any harm!!

I was 4 before I gave up my bedtime bottle.

mildred1978

NoreenOMS wrote: »

Hi Lolly, thanks for your msg. We tried something similar to this when he first started water - http://m.toysrus.co.uk/Babies-R-Us/Feeding/Weaning/Cups/Tommee-Tippee-Explora-1st-Sips-Cup-Pink/0070886?searchPosition=17

So, if we just remove the white parts then, it will be free flow? If so, I guess we could give this a go- and as long as it goes ok, get a big one like the one you have posted ( the one we brought several months ago like the I posted is only 150ml, and still trying to get him to have minimum of 200ml per bottle)

My LO has had a thing about pouring liquids out of cups since he was tiny. My floor gets wet with water several times a day. No way would I be wanting full fat cows milk flowing freely across my furniture and floors!!! :eek:

NoreenOMS

Hi all, thanks for the tips. Definitely don't want to decrease what he is having, as doesn't quite reach the recommended 600ml a day as loves his food. Think I might just have to carry on with the bottle a little longer then, or just try the cup he uses for his water and just hope it doesn't cause him to reject his water.