Weaning toddler from bottle to cup..

[Nadine]

Sorry if this has been posted before.

I was wondering how you weaned your toddler from a bottle to a cup for their milk drinks?

DD is 16mths old and uses Avent bottles but with the spout. I don't believe the spout is as damaging to teeth as a teat is said to be, but I do have to wean her eventually and would like to do this before she is 2.

She drinks her water out of a tommee tippee straw cup/bottle. I have tried her milk in this, but she will try it and thats it. She seems to know that the straw cup is for water and the bottle is for milk.

So how did you do it?


TIA

[nikbrad]

I know heinz make a cup which has a lid which has 3 attachments to it: a spout , then another lid which covers the whole top of the cup and then has a small hole on the side for the liquid to come out and then once they are old enough you can then put the 3rd contraption on which gives the cup a lip so it's like a normal cup - maybe give that a try. I'm not sure how to get rid of the bottle as I swapped from a bottle to a cup with a straw or the pidgeon cups on Mackenzie's 1st birthday - I just had it in my head that when she was one the bottles would go - don't know why I just did. I guess she was too young to protest too much and I just cuddled her to drink out of her cup when she would normally have had her bottles - she loved cuddling when she was having her night and morning drinks so it was easy for me. You could try all different cups but I would give the NUK drink cups with the hard spouts a miss, even I struggled to get anything out of them you had to suck so hard.

[widdly]

dont get the tommee tippee nuby soft spout cup with the handles, extremely hard to suck, i thought they looked like a great idea but i wasted my money.

DS doesn't have bottles anymore but he refuses to drink cows milk so i just don't offer it anymore (it also flares up his reflux) he gets more than enough calcium each day from milk on his cereal, cheese, yogurt and custard. So don't stress if she just refuses to drink milk out of a cup, she will eventually, just make up for it buy giving her calcium rich foods.

thats my opinion, take it or leaveit, goodluck, i hope she happily drinks her milk very soon