We are getting ready to start solids/introduce a sippy cup. Do I just put water in the sippy and not breastmilk? LO only gets a bottle 3x a week when I'm gone. I'm worried he will get used to the faster flow of the sippy if I put breastmilk in it.
Also my MIL told me I need to wean him from the bottle at 6 months. Which I think is ridiculous, but she didn't breastfeed past 6 months so I'm guessing she just put formula in a sippy instead of a bottle?
squash / 13199 posts
@MamaJ: we breasfed and only put water in a our zoli cup. she never got breastmilk from a cup. I think most experts agree that bottle weaning should be at 12 months
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
I actually started a thread about this yesterday : )
http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/breastfeeding-and-sippy-cups
nectarine / 2667 posts
Our son just started using a cup with water inside at daycare (almost 8 months old). I didn't want to use breast milk, because hello - spills! I don't think you need to bottle ween at 6 months - plenty of formula fed babies drink from bottles past that!
blogger / nectarine / 2010 posts
We put water in a straw cup starting around 8m. Before that it was just breastfeeding and BLW solids once a day.
He's 17m old and is still having his breast milk at daycare in a bottle. I won't let him lose a drop of that gold in a sippy cup!
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