Bottle or Cup/Beaker for milk from 6 mths?
I'm just about to change my daughter over to SMA stage 2 follow-on milk & have read on the tin that they recommend getting baby to use a cup or beaker by 6 months.
Has anyone else started to give their baby's milk that way, rather than in a bottle?
I'm assuming its to do with their teeth & to help prevent decay or perhaps disturbing the growth of the teeth?
She has her water in a Tommee Tippee cup now & sips from it pretty well, but I'm not sure how well 6-7 oz of milk would go down? x
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Has anyone else started to give their baby's milk that way, rather than in a bottle?
I'm assuming its to do with their teeth & to help prevent decay or perhaps disturbing the growth of the teeth?
She has her water in a Tommee Tippee cup now & sips from it pretty well, but I'm not sure how well 6-7 oz of milk would go down? x
(Also posted in born in July)
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We started ds on a doidy cup at 5 months, he took a while to get the hang of it but is now 14.5 months and drinks from it indepdendently. He would never entertain breastmilk or formula milk from it though, just would flat-out refuse! He's always had cows' milk in it absolutely fine though, strange baby!
I think you have to go with what you feel is best, we preferred to keep him on bottles to get the right amount of milk into him, as he would neveer have had enough from his cup, and he was capable of being off them completely at 12 months. The fact he still has a bedtime bottle is simply cuddly time, it's not entirely necessary and once this set of teeth are through we're dropping it in favour of his Gruffalo mug for bedtime milk! x x x
He did take some persuading to switch from bottle to beaker, and what I eventually did was give some milk in a beaker with breakfast, when he was expecting water, and this got him to try it - then half an hour or so after breakfast i;d give the rest of the feed from a bottle (long enough after so he didn't think if he refused the beaker I'd swap it for a bottle, and I knew he was getting enough milk).
You could maybe try offering a beaker and see what happens, but if you stick to bottle I really wouldn't worry about it at this age, it's more important that she gets her milk. if she's already used to bottles, you wouldn't be introducing it, it's not one change now and another a but further down the line - and you can always try a cup/beaker again in a couple of months.