Sipper Cups instead of Bottles?

[Mel's Belle]

Has anyone heard of transitioning babies from having bottles to using sipper cups instead for their formula once they're past 6 months old? I remember the CHN saying that should start being phased out at around 6 months old but wonder how effective they are in getting babies to drink a full feed? Any ideas :confused:

DD has finally decided to take an EBM bottle at 4 months old :yelclap: and I plan to start weaning DD off the breast at about 6 months old so I'm wondering whether to buy more bottles or sipper cups instead...

[Baby Girl]

My DD1 would not take any milk (bf, formula or cows milk) from anything but her bottle until about 2 1/2. We gave her bottles to Santa when she turned 3 as she still had a bottle before bed at night.

DD2 is 11 months and I am starting to give her formula in a cup with a straw - those fancy non-spill ones) and she has been fine so by the time she goes onto cow's milk bottles will be a thing of the past. She probably would have taken a straw-cup sooner (could use one at about 6 months) but I find bottles easier for mixing the formula and it is easier to have 6 bottles of water waiting rather than that many straw-cups ready to go - they are pricey!!

I have not heard of the recommendation of them being weaned off the bottle by a certain age. I have just followed the signs from my bubs.

[Rell]

I agree with schmell I have never herd recomendations to wean babys of a bottle at 6mths. My DS would not drink anything from a sipper cup until he was 11 mths old and he was 12 mths when we got him to drink milk from a cup.
Formula is definetly easer to make up in a bottle as a bottle has the mls on the side. If you use a cup you would have to measure the water frist and the tip it in the cup.
I also steralised until 12mths so steralising bottles is a lot easer then sipper cups.
if you are useing wide neck bottles Avent make a sipper top that fits onto bottles you might like to give this a try first to see weather your baby will take to a sipper before buying a few sipper cups.

[Jem]

ive tried sipper cups with ds1... he just doesnt like them :confused:
hoping by the time he is 3 we can say goodbye to bottle..... its like his security blanket... he goes everywhere with it :)

[jembelina]

I don't think it really matters all that much. But, I was told to start introducing a cup when I started solids (so usually around 6 months) just with a littel water in it. More to give them the idea of a cup than anything else. Apparently they should have a good idea about usinga cup by 12 months. I would start out with bottles if you are weaning at 6 months. It can be a real hassle finding a cup that suits your baby (you'll probably end up with a cupboard full of them that have been used once!). Also, if a leak proof one doesn't work for you, you don't want half the feed down her front everytime!! So, my advice would be to use bottles and jsut give her a cup with meals or when you are having a drink so she gets a feel for it.

Have Fun!!!!

[Mum2Lucas]

DS is 7.5 months old and i started trying sipper cups at 5 months. we tried about 3 before we hit the jackpot. He uses a sipper cup during the day for his daytime feeds and a bottle at night. we got the nuby one from tommy tippee. its the only one he'll use. And I have heard recommendations for babies to start trying to use cups at 6 months so that there's little risk of getting yucky teeth from using a bottle too long. But if your baby has been breastfed until now then theres no need to use bottles you can go straight to a cup.

[aardvark]

I started giving DD#2 EBM from a sipper cup at about 4 months. I used the avent bottles with one of their silicon beaker spouts.

She never had a bottle after that.

By the time I returned to work when she was 12 months old, she was just drinking her EBM from a cup.

It's the content which matters, not the vessel.

[Femme-Fetale]

I have never herd such advice, its a bit suss to me
In my case, i have still got my DS on the bottle for milk feed (formula) and sippy cup for water from the age of about 4-5 mths. He loves his sippy cups and gets more excited for it rather then the bottle. I tried putting milk into it once, to see if he would take it himself, but nope, he wont take milk from it. Kids get a connection going with things, and once they are used to milk being in a bottle they expect that, same with a sippy cup, they get used to juice or water or wat ever u put in it. When u change that balance they crack it, so therefor i like to keep things seperate untill he lets me know its time to move on

[Lauz]

we have one at work who will only drink from a sipper cup, she's now 1... but has used one form about 7 months....

With our 10 monthers.. they've all just become very warey of drinking from a bottle and having a cup is a way to make them drink their bottle.... it's a big boy/big girl thing ;)

[Mel's Belle]

Thanks for all your replies! I think I need to go and buy some bottles then. I thought it would be harder to get them to drink a full feed from a sipper cup because it requires more effort on their part.

Thanks again!