https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:14:46 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottle-to-sippy-cup-transition-breastfeeding#post-2261685 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:53:03 +0000 Adira 2261685@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@twodoghouse: Yes, we continued to nurse just in the mornings (would've done morning and night, but Xander had dropped the evening session before we even went to bottles) until he self-weaned a few months later. But Xander was also never into nursing as much as other babies. We were down to just 4x/day when he was 9 months, and then we dropped the 3 during-daycare-hours ones when he turned one. He only asked to nurse one during that time and seemed fine dropping sessions. But he was also in daycare full-time starting at 12 weeks, so probably was used to not nursing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottle-to-sippy-cup-transition-breastfeeding#post-2261681 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:45:46 +0000 twodoghouse 2261681@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: Did you continue to nurse for a while after he was totally transitioned to cups? I have always nursed on demand and have a hard time telling them no, they cannot nurse now when they ask for it! I know setting boundaries would be good for all of us (nursing two babes 8-10 times a day is crazy!) but I also don't want to actively wean them. I want them to choose to stop nursing. Maybe that will never happen if I always let them nurse, though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottle-to-sippy-cup-transition-breastfeeding#post-2261679 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:39:32 +0000 Adira 2261679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not sure this will really help you or not, but here's our experience. Xander was in daycare full-time, so we just took one bottle away each week and replaced it with a sippy. And on the weekends, I removed the same nursing session and replaced with a sippy. There were definitely times when he wanted to nurse, but I just said "No, all done." I continued to nurse in the mornings though, but I didn't add any nursing sessions.</p> <p>We used the Zoli bot straw cups. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottle-to-sippy-cup-transition-breastfeeding#post-2261674 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:36:17 +0000 twodoghouse 2261674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Green Grass: Yes, we've tried them all! They have no problem getting milk out of a variety of cups - they just spit it out once it's in their mouths. I have no idea why they're doing that! Plus, my daughter uses her teeth to take the lid off the take n toss cups. I still let them use them sometimes at meal times and just know that she's going to turn her dinner into a milk soup on her tray, but they don't drink any more out of that cup than any other. I've just been rotating through all the cups we have looking for one that they will magically love. So far they are indifferent to all of them. Using an open cup works best, but they only take a few sips before they start spitting that out too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottle-to-sippy-cup-transition-breastfeeding#post-2261669 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:30:19 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 2261669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have you tried the Take and Toss cups? They are not as hard to suck on as some straw/sippy. That was the only cup that got D to take the same spline of milk and we tried tons!!! (Sippy) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bottle-to-sippy-cup-transition-breastfeeding#post-2261642 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:03:43 +0000 twodoghouse 2261642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm working on getting my 15 month old twins off of bottles (of wcm) and onto sippy cups. The reason they take bottles of wcm in the first place is because that's the only way they would transition from formula to cow's milk a few months ago. Now I'd like to cut out the bottles. The no bottles part is going fine, but they aren't transitioning to the sippy/straw cups. Instead they have transitioned to nursing 587 times per day. We were down to 3-4 nursing sessions per day and 1-2 per night per baby. Now we're up to 8-10 nursing sessions per day and 1-2 per night per baby. </p> <p>They are drinking a little water and a few sips at a time of wcm at a time from a variety of sippy/straw and open cups, but I think they've decided if they aren't going to get bottles they will go back to nursing constantly. I think they have somehow brought my supply back from the brink of extinction. I woke up yesterday and had leaked through my shirt! That hasn't happened in about a year. Anyway, I'm ok with this frequency of nursing to ease the transition if need be, but I'm afraid they aren't actually going to transition to cups at all at this rate. Did anyone else go through this? Did your LO eventually go to a cup or did it continue like this until they weaned? I was sort of hoping we were easing into weaning, but now it looks like they will never stop nursing. </p>