Weaning from breast to cup
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Topic: Weaning from breast to cup
Posted By: Tan1
Subject: Weaning from breast to cup
Date Posted: 19 October 2011 at 4:13pm
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Hello everyone!
I am in the process of weaning my breast fed nearly 6 month old ds onto a cup (in time for when I go back to work)Ill keep breastfeeding him when I am with him and express my breast milk for him to drink from the cup. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions on how to make it go smoothly? IE - how much to give him and how often? Also, I am using an avent sippy cup which he is slowly getting the hang of but can anyone recommend a cup which works really well? Any suggestions on what worked best for anyone would be much appreciated 
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 19 October 2011 at 5:47pm
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Why not just a normal bottle? ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Stoked
Date Posted: 19 October 2011 at 5:53pm
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Tan1
My DS is breastfed and uses a sippy cup. I don't think the type of cup is really important, just that the same one is used consistently. When the sippy cup didn't have milk in it I left it in the lounge with water in it. It took a while for him to really get the hang of it and be happy with it. (Maybe 4 weeks?) We didn't wean to a bottle because he refused to take one and was more interested in the cup. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Tan1
Date Posted: 19 October 2011 at 6:01pm
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Hi Kel,
I haven't tried a bottle, it has crossed my mind but then it is just another thing to get him used to. My thinking is that he will be on a cup anyway so thought I might as well just go to that now. Hi Stoked, thanks for the advice as I wasn't sure whether to buy a couple of different types of cups to try him on. I will persist and stick with the one cup and do as you have suggested by putting water in it and giving it to him between feeds. |
Posted By: Spacette
Date Posted: 19 October 2011 at 9:49pm
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My girl liked the sippy cup early, and is now a bit obsessed. We just got a super cheap sistema one from the warehouse and that was much better than the tricky non-spill one (although she gulps and sometimes dribbles if she's got too much).
Could try a bottle too just in case? I find the bottle is more efficient at getting milk in, on the rare times she'll take that. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 20 October 2011 at 8:20am
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I'm about to wean my 8 month old and he won't have a bar of a bottle, doesn't understand that you suck on it and he just chews so he'll be going to a free flow sippy cup. I've found perseverance is the only thing that seems to work... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Tan1
Date Posted: 20 October 2011 at 10:48am
| Great advice everyone! We will get there in the end. He went really well on the cup this morning after a sleep. He seems to take to it better when he has had a sleep and not feeling grumpy! |
Posted By: Danda08
Date Posted: 20 October 2011 at 11:15am
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We started using the Avent sippy cups at 6 months but switched to the Nuk training cups cos it flows easier (the Avent one requires a decent suck). ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Hayz001
Date Posted: 20 October 2011 at 6:58pm
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I've been working the last couple of weeks so DD8mo has had to get really used to a sippy cup (she won't have a bar of a bottle, plus I agree with you in that if you can go straight from bottle - cup then it's less re-training of drinking technique). She's had one i've used since she started solids (5mo) and was really iffy on it for ages. perserverance is totally the key, I also would try and give it to her with her meals and encourage her along by mimicking drinking out of it, making big enthusiastic gulps etc etc. I would take it away if she wasn't liking it, before she got agitated that I was trying to force it on her. I also think the stock standard, old school cheapies are better than the fancy pants no spill ones. It takes them awhile and they will cough up water/drink too much but they get there! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Ceres
Date Posted: 23 October 2011 at 10:19am
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We're currently in the process of attempting the same thing (sadly DD has multiple food allergies which means it would be better for both of us if she weans to neocate now). DD will take up to 50mls of water from a sippy cup, but at this stage isn't so interested in milk. I'm going out for a few hours tomorrow to see if that assists matters, apparently babies can smell their mums from quite a distance and so will wait it out, well, some will! I actually bought a soft straw Nubby sippy cup yesterday on the advice of our dietician, as it is quite hard for them to get the quanity of milk they need from a free flow sippy cup (I agree with Spacette though, the cheapy sippy cups are awesome). She's been playing with it a bit, so hopefully she takes to it. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  <
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Posted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 25 October 2011 at 11:53pm
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Both my boys took to bottles really well but the other thing they LOVED right from the beginning (when they first started on solids at 6m) was straw sippy cups. I use the Pigeon 8m + straw cups, I think they hold up to about 200ml? Once they realise something happens when they suck it's like a lightbulb going on! And once they've mastered a straw you never have to worry about them drinking while you're out or on holiday as they're really easy to find
Good luck with the weaning. ------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |