When did you start trying the sippy cup?

We were probaby a little over a year when the bottle was gone completely. My daughter loved the nuby cups, to start with because of the soft spout. I think it reminded her of a bottle. Eventually she realized how much more you could get out of a cup and didn't care to lose the bottle.

Try buying cups that have her favorite characters or letting her help you pick some out.

Congrats on your little miracle, she is gorgeous!

You didn't have problems with that. My daughter would not give up the bottle at night. We ended up having to throw away all the bottles in the house. Even then we had lots of long nights until she finally gave in. I also had a grandmother who wanted her baby girl to stay a baby. She would go out a get a new bottle and give it to my daughter when she went to visit. That made things so much harder. - blueeyes73801 3/14/2010 7:14:01 AM | Flag

Answered by HeavenlyMommy {656}
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3/13/2010 1:27:31 AM

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My son loves the Nuby sippy cups too. We got rid of all the bottles at around 15 months old. He started using a sippy cup at 6 months old and still uses them at 18 months. I just got rid of the bottles cold-turkey. That seems to work ok with our little one. If cold-turkey isn't your style, I've read you should replace their least favorite bottle first. For example, get rid of the daytime bottles, then the morning bottle, and then finally the bottle before bed. I hope this helps! Good luck!

I used cold-turkey method as well. It worked great! My little girl just got confused when she would get a bottle some of the time and a sippy cup other times. - BuffBaby 3/19/2010 10:08:32 PM | Flag

Answered by shellybelle {152}
3/13/2010 7:54:41 AM

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I was lucky when it came time to leave the bottle. My son the the croup when he was 13 months old. He couldn't drink milk for three days because he would gag and spit up. I used that as my opportunity to take the bottle away. It worked in my favor because he didn't like like spitting up so he didn't even want the bottle. With my daughter I just took it away. It was rough for a few days but she never took a bottle to go to sleep so it really wasn't so bad. My friend has a baba fairy that comes to the house and takes all of your bottles and leaves you a present. That seems to work for binkys too.

Answered by Almostsupermom {111}
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3/15/2010 4:05:02 PM

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My son was breast fed but we started him on a sippy cup with water at 6 months. It took him a little while to figure it out. Now at 13 months he drink his milk and water from sippy cups only.

Answered by Marielavoe {116}
3/24/2010 1:00:33 PM

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The question of when to give up the bottle has been around a long time. I have found that if you watch the baby for signs of holding they're own bottle and tipping it upside down, that that's the time to change the bottle to the soft nipple sippy cups. Both our girls gave up all bottles except mornings without any struggle. It only took a week or two with gradual reduceing the amount in the bottle and increaseing the cup amount each morning and voila no more bottles.