I wouldnt stress about it too much - look on it as a gradual thing to be doing over the next 3 - 6 months. I was desperate for my b/fed DD1 to take a sippy cup of anything as I wanted the flexibility of not having to b/f her in public or listen to her screaming for me on long car journeys. She would not have water so I made up very dilute juice and we were away at about 6 months (she refused bottles BTW). DD2 was fine with bottles and water from a cup so I didnt have that challenge with her - phew! I would suggest that the best time to introduce the cup is for her "alert" drinks, and save the bottle for "quantity" and for bedtime feeds for now. However, if you are able, try to get her out of the habit of sucking to sleep, then giving her a bottle to get her to sleep at night wont be such an issue later on (ie try to remove it when she is sleepy but not quite asleep). She wont thank you now, but you will be glad later on!

I think that to start wenaing, it may be easiest to give up whatever bottle does not seem like a "comfort bottle"..Save that one for last!!..It will be the most difficult..

If she is ok during the day, maybe giving up the lunch bottle first will work!!

Good luck!

Honestly at 6 months I would not be stressing too much about weaning from bottles. If you want to try then go for it, but if it's stressing your bub then don't push it. I would suggest just keep trying every now and then, get her to have a day time drink from the sippy cup & slowly increase it until she has all her drinks from it...but there is now hurry. My youngest never had bottles at all but my oldest had a bottle from 9 to 15 months. It really isn't a big problem yet, but I do agree with not giving her a bottle to go to bed with as it is bad for their teeth.

6 months is really early to be weaning from a bottle -  is it really necessary?  ....

seriously? WOW I have never heard this one.

My kids were 18months when I got them to use a sippy cup.

Hmmm. My philosophy is to try, and if it's too stressful for you and/or baby, then stop and then try again weeks, months later. Your baby will do just fine not having tried sippy cup until later.

I have a 3 year old and I didn't introduce a sippy cup until he was 11 1/2 months old. It took him a few weeks and several tries on different kinds of sippy cups but we got there.  On the other hand, I introduced my now 14 month old to sippy cups at 7 months when I started them on solids. They gagged of course so I ended up just doing a cup and just held it for them. Several weeks later I tried the sippy cup again and it worked.  So I guess I'm saying, don't stress too much about it.

As far as having a bottle at night, my children are breastfed so they we didn't have to worry about giving a night time bottle until I switched them cow's milk at 12 months old. At 12 months old, my son went to bed with his sippy cup of milk. But he wakes up several times a night looking for his milk, so he eventually started going to bed with milk. Some time between 2 and 3 years old I told him that he can only drink milk during dinner and that he isn't allowed to bring it to bed because he'll get cavities. So he agreed. 

I think as far as cavities goes, you have to take the overall picture into account. If you hardly give your baby any sweets/junk food and made sure to brush teeth at least 2x a day, you'll do alright.

First, if this is her attachtment, I would not try to take it away so soon.  My girl was like 18m when we got her off the bottle completely and she is just fine, teeth and all!  It's up to you if you feel that she should go onto a sippy cup, and what you can do is inbetween her meals of the bottle fill it with water or water and a bit of juice and let her try it.  It make take some time for her to get the idea on how to control the flow as it is more the what the bottle gives.  And once she is liking the sippy cup then put half a bottle in there and give it to her and give her the bottle first, then finish off with the sippy cup and put more in the sippy and less the bottle each day until she is taking all her milk from it.  But again, you don't have to go by the docs on this one, I dont' think anyway.  And for me as much as I wanted to do this also, I saw my girl was much happier with the bottle, and when she was ready she chose the big girl cups....Good luck and not matter what you decide, it will be the best for all of you!!!

Hi there

Do you mean having her milk out of a sippy cup or water?

My son is almost 1 and he still has 3-4 bottles of milk a day. I also feed him before he has a sleep.

I wouldn't suggest trying to make her drink her milk out of a sippy cup yet. But if you did want to introduce one, then you could try putting a little cooled boiled water in a sippy cup and offering it to her inbetween feeds. If she is having solid food, maybe you could give her a sip when her lunch or something. If she can sit up and hold her head well, then she should be ok. It may take her a while to get used to the taste of water too.

Any changes i have made, i have always done during the day when bub is happiest. Not when he is too hungry or tired. He just refuses.

I hope this helps. But dont panick if she wont accept it. She is still very little.

Cass xx