If you weaned from bottle to sippy cup...

lovebug630

I was looking at the paperwork from the pedi about feeding, and I read you should start weaning around 9 months. Guess I'm a little late there, huh? DD has just gotten the hang of drinking juice with water from a straw sippy. So do I start giving her formula from the sippy? If she won't drink it all (and I know she won't), do I then go back to the bottle? I'm so confused about this process. Any suggestions would be great. TIA!

+ T +

I started giving Colin water in a sippy at 6m. It was the kind where you have to still suck (spill proof) so it's not really a true transition. At about 9m I gave him BM about once a day in it. Now he's totally transitioned. I do milk in the sippys he still has to suck but water is in a sippy where all you have to do is tip it.

We haven't moved on to straws yet. I've tried but he has no idea what to do.

shoeboxx

Try different cups.  LO drinks water from a straw sippy or a soft spout sippy.  We only give him milk in a hard spout cup.  If she rejects the formula from the straw sippy, try a different spout.

TeamRey

We were told to use a sippy cup that does not have one of those stoppers in it.  We use the nuk learner cup.  Instead of giving her a bottle with formula we just give her a sippy cup with the formula.  We started with her lunch bottle and it went perfectly and then a week later did the morning bottle and lunch time bottle.  This weekend we are supposed to do the last bed time bottle.