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Bizzy 
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:01am |
who has never ever given their babies a bottle? they have gone straight to cups when old enough. and when i thought about expressing for my first child when i had bad nipple pain even then it was going to be from a cup...
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MrsMojo
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:05am |
I intend to go straight to cup next time around, it makes a lot of sense to me to skip the bottle stage if you don't need to use them.
Because I started work full time when Michaela was only 5mo and IMO still a bit too young to have all her meals from a cup she had EBM (and later formula) from a bottle when I wasn't home to feed her but next time around I won't be rushed back to work.
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.Mel
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:17am |
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I've just started giving Cooper a cup.. he's doing ok with it. I figure by the time he's old enough to have milk, he'll be drinking solely from a cup.
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CuriousG
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:19am |
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A friend of mine did the same thing with her last child because the first two wouldn't get off the bottle!
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Caro07
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:47am |
No, not the only one  My little boy is nearly 6 months and has never had a bottle. We tentatively tried to give him a bottle at about 5 months and he had absolutely no idea what to do with it and got thoroughly upset with the whole thing! We decided not to persist with it and are hoping to try introducing a cup at some point fairly soon
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 11:10am |
If you can BF to the age where there is no point in introducing a bottle, then good on you I say.
I stopped BF at 3 and a half months for various reasons, and there was no way Chloe was ready for a cup then. I've tried her with a cup recently too and she just isn't ready. But if you can get past needing a bottle then that's just a bonus really... no need to have stacks of bottles to buy 
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 11:49am |
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I gave milk in a bottle and water was only ever given to my boys in cups.
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 12:36pm |
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We didn't use bottles either (just once when we were trying expressed breastmilk). She was bf then had a cup.
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 1:38pm |
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I tried giving Jack a bottle twice with EBM but he never took to it so didn't bother after that. He went straight onto a sippy cup when I stopped bf
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 3:30pm |
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I only ever gave Keira a bottle with water in it a night so I wasnt constanly having to get up in the night to get her a drink.
I BF untill she was 18 months, so with milk we gradually introduced it in the cup from the age of 1. She whould never take milk in her bottle - too weird.
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 7:58pm |
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My girls have always had water in a cup not bottle, but I have expressed for both Hannah and Kryssi and they had bottles (at various times) for that. Kryssi eventually went onto formula at 9mos but she was my first FF baby so therefore the first regular bottle feeder of my girls.
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 11:58pm |
Deb you're not alone! Lucas has never had a bottle nor do I intend on ever giving him one ...same goes with formula!
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NovemberMum
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Posted: 26 July 2008 at 12:20am |
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my girl has had a bottle which I can count on one hand and it was EBM other that it has been breastmilk.
she does take a sippy cup with water.
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Posted: 26 July 2008 at 9:13am |
We had our feeding session at antenatal last week, and she was saying that the international health people are now recommending cup over bottle - so there you go I think it was because cup develops better muscles for speech or something?
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caitlynsmygirl
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Posted: 26 July 2008 at 2:02pm |
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C was bf and bottle fed pretty much from birth , she needed to be so her father could take care of her (at HIS house, since we are not and werent together) and i didnt trust her as a newborn to drink out of a cup.
If i was exclusively bfding however, then i might go on to a cup when i weaned them off.
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Posted: 26 July 2008 at 2:56pm |
Yep straight to cup here. Mercedes never had a bottle at all
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