at what age did you fully transition from the bottle to a sippy cup?
did you still keep a bottle at night with formula or did you just use a sippy cup?
what kind of sippy cups are your favorite?
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We transitioned at 12 months (but she was using sippy with water before that). After 12 months, we kept the night bottle for a few more weeks and eventually went to sippy also.
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We dropped the bottle cold turkey at 12 months and gave her WCM in a sippy cup from then on (though she did still nurse morning and night). When LO was first learning to use a cup with water (around 7 months) she did much better with straw cups than sippy cups. When we started doing WCM she did best with the cheapo take and toss sippy cups you buy at the grocery store!
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We transitioned to sippy cups about half the time at 13 months, but then we kept the nighttime bottle until 15 months since that was the hard cutoff on bottles that our doc gave us
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We switched to cups sometime between 12-18 months. It was gradual.
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We offered straw cups of water at meals starting at 9 months and had them out in his play areas, mostly to get familiar. By 11 months we were offering formula in the straw cups at meals and water with snacks. DS self weaned mostly so by 12 months he just got a 2-3 ounce snack bottle in the morning while we prepped his breakfast and the rest of the time he was on straw cups. We did straw cups because my son never held his own bottles so he didn't understand tipping his head back and using sippy cups.
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@gingerbebe: what straw cups did you start with? We have a sippy cup for T and he loves it (just with water) but isn't really getting the tipping part. He really prefers if we tip it for him. I thought I might try a straw to see if that works better. He's a rough and tumble kind of boy so I was afraid of him stabbing himself in the mouth with the straw!
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He did best learning the actual sucking part by us squeezing up on those take n toss straw cups. Once he got that the Tommee Tippee trainer straw cups with the handles were easiest for him. DS still does not like cups that require hard sucking to get the liquid out and we found the Tommee Tippee ones to be fairly easy to suck liquid out of. We were willing to sacrifice leakproof technology or whatever because they pissed him off. His favorite cup at home now (cuz it has not lid or cover for travel) is the Zoomi cup from Amazon.
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We fully transitioned by 12 months. She did well with the sippy cup so there was no point in keeping the bottle. She had been drinking water out of a sippy for a long time. She has her last cup of milk for the day at dinner, not at bedtime, so we can get her teeth brushed. So far we just use the Take N Toss cups. No extra parts to clean and they are cheap.
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We skipped the spouted sippy. We began using an open cup and did quite well with that. I added a straw cup for outings.
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We eliminated the night time bottle at 9 months. It was getting too hard to fit it in to our routine, so we switched to a sippy with formula at dinner. We vary between spouted ones and straw ones.
Then at 11m we slowly replaced his daycare bottles with solids and offered sippies of water. His last bottle to go was the morning one, at 12m, which I replaced with breakfast and a sippy.
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We skipped the sippy and went to straw cups with water around 8-9ish months. When we switched from BM to WCM, we put it in straw cups. My younger child moved on to open cups at daycare at 13 months and was using them effectively by 15 months.
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