Bottles to cups

[2mrsks (mrs&mrsk)]

I was reading another post and noticed a lot of you are not using bottles anymore--- is this none at all?

We typically do bottles around nap and bedtime with milk and cups with water all day

Day care and the doctors haven't said anything different yet... But our last well visit turned into a sick visit so we probably missed a few things ....

When did you transition completely? And how?

[seamonster]

DS gets a bottle of milk at daycare because he plays with his cup too much. Water at home and daycare in a sippy cup. Introducing a little open cup (like espresso size) if I can find some plastic ones since he likes to try open cups.

H still gives milk in a bottle if I'm out. I don't know when we'll transition. Letting daycare lead that one.

[tortor4]

We do water in sippy cups and milk in her bottles. Just a couple days ago I decided to try to switch to only cups thinking it wouldn't be a big deal at all because she didn't seem overly attached to her bottles. I was very very wrong. I bought her a few new cups that I'll only put milk in so we'll see how it goes.

[mmarie]

DDs Dr kinda got on us about this. We still use a bottle most of the time. She said it's not a huge deal, but the longer you wait to transition, the harder it can be for most babies and that we are already pretty late. Sometimes she will drink out of a soft nipple sippy cup but it's hit or miss. She was doing really well with it then all of a sudden wouldn't take it anymore. It's been so damn hot and humid here lately I haven't been to worried about what she's drinking from as long as she's drinking. I might try that straw one you squeeze mentioned in the other thread. I feel like we have one of each kind of sippy or straw type cup they sell at Walmart and target.

[mmarie]

Jun 19, 2016 7:55:25 GMT -5 mmarie said:

DDs Dr kinda got on us about this. We still use a bottle most of the time. She said it's not a huge deal, but the longer you wait to transition, the harder it can be for most babies and that we are already pretty late. Sometimes she will drink out of a soft nipple sippy cup but it's hit or miss. She was doing really well with it then all of a sudden wouldn't take it anymore. It's been so damn hot and humid here lately I haven't been to worried about what she's drinking from as long as she's drinking. I might try that straw one you squeeze mentioned in the other thread. I feel like we have one of each kind of sippy or straw type cup they sell at Walmart and target.

ETA we have not even considered an open cup. That would just end up being a mess that I really don't want to clean up.

[dreemkin]

Dr advised us to get rid of bottle asap a while ago (around one) bc according to the AAP it can cause tooth decay and promote more milk than needed. DD2 had a tougher time transitioning than DD1. Per someone's suggestion on this board (can't remember who) we bought the Nuby 3 stage transitioning bottle. Worked like a charm! We still use mostly soft nipple sippy cups but we also have straw cups and the munchkin 360. Open cups are too messy for my liking. My 3 year old just started using open cups regularly lol.

We also just stopped giving some milk at night before bed. She doesn't need it anymore. I'm not sure when we stopped with DD1 though.

[aggiebug]

DD rarely used bottles as it was since she was primarily BFed and only given a bottle so I could get away. Thus we always used sippy cups for water from 6 months on. At about a year we started trying straw cups and ideally that is all she would use but a sippy cup in the morning aka when she is snuggling on the couch is just easier.

[mmarie]

We use the nuby 3 stage cup too. That's the only sippy cup nipped she will take. I think it's because it's softer than any other sippy cup nipple.

[cougarette]

He self-weaned from the bottle towards the end of January. Ugh. He only ever took a bottle at daycare or if our parents were watching him. As you've probably read, we're not using cups yet, so that's fun.

But we were working on getting him off the bottle around January anyway because he was supposed to be moving up to the one year old room where they don't give bottles.

[dmorgendorffer]

At our 15mo appt the pedi told us we should try to eliminate it by 18mo because as someone mentioned the longer you wait the more difficult it is. She only take bottles at daycare, she uses the 360 cups for water but she won't take milk from the cup. We have the avent soft nipple sippies but she doesn't like those either, though I'm thinking of trying one of those on her regular bottle. She took a few sips of milk from a straw cup once, but then lost interest. I think we're just going to have to send a bunch of options into daycare the let them deal with it since that's the only place she's using bottles still.

[lilyelayne]

DS never took bottles (save one weekend I went out of town and he had no choice) so I'm not much help, but I will add that we use a different cup for water than for cow's milk.

He gets water out of lots of things- nuby straw cup, munchkin 360, camelbak eddy, and a plain open cup - but cow's milk only in a Nuk soft spout sippy. I heard that kids often get attached to the idea that X liquid comes in D cup while Y liquid comes in E cup, so we keep them separate.

[lilyelayne]

If he prefers milk to water, can you have daycare offer water in the bottle and milk in a cup simultaneously?

[agm04]

Our pedi urged us to transition at her 1 year appointment (I think?), at which point we'd already been using avent natural sippy cups for water and smoothies for a little while, so we just switched her milk to the same cups and she did fine. We have a ton of avent natural bottles, so rather than buying all new cups, I just bought a 6 pack of the sippy nipples and use those on her bottles. Idk if that's breaking the rules or not, but I'm sticking with it. She also uses the munchkin 360 cups with handles for water, and The First Years straw take n toss cups for smoothies and kefir. I don't think she really cares!

[seamonster]

I was looking at small open cups and Ikea and Munchkin make little open toddler cups.

[agm04]

Target also has some tiny BPA free plastic open cups for 79 cents. Matching divided plates and bowls are also 79 cents!

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Jun 19, 2016 11:58:34 GMT -5 aggiebug said:

DD rarely used bottles as it was since she was primarily BFed and only given a bottle so I could get away. Thus we always used sippy cups for water from 6 months on.

^This. We are now using sippy cups as well as cups with that type of cap you have on sports bottles, don't know what you call them?

We are also trying open cups but half of the time the contents end up on the floor

ETA: I forgot to add the pic of the cap I was refering to. We have a similar, smaller version.

[seamonster]

DS loves sports bottles, but I'm hesitant to use them because they are too much like a regular bottle.

[2mrsks (mrs&mrsk)]

A friend whose son is 1 1/2 mo younger and sees the same Doctor took him off bottles a week ago and just posted on Facebook . Time to get a move on lol