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I honestly don't remember! I feel like she wasn't particularly attached to the bottle, so she didn't even noticed. I'm pretty sure she had no bottles by 16 months old. I do remember looking for sippy cups that were as similar to bottles as I could like this one: http://www.diapers.com/p/nuby-sports-sipper-10-oz-6757
My son, however, has been exclusively bottle fed since three months and I have a feeling he will fight this much harder when we get there.

We had reduced bottles to 3 per day (wake-up, afternoon and bedtime) probably 6-8 weeks before giving up the bottle completely. Sippy cup with water was being offered at other times (we tried many different types). Just before a year we changed to whole milk and left behind formula.

I was incredibly blessed with starting a new daycare at 1. The daycare broke the bottle within 3 days. She started on Wednesday with the routine above. Thursday was reduced to two bottles (afternoon and bedtime). Friday was only bedtime. Saturday was 100% cup.

Like @artbee, I always thought bedtime would be hard. But it hasn't been a big deal. We offer milk at all mealtimes, water at snacks and water before bed. I sometimes worry about if LO is getting enough fluid.

We've oddly had weird success with sippies. Daycare uses hard spout (like the take and toss cups) and have no problem. We had the most success at home with straw cups. Our only issue with straw are the ones that are spill proof we seem to have suction issues with (she sucks, but creates a vacuum and gets no fluids).