Your one year olds bottle?

[kellyc1987]

DS is going to be one in a couple of weeks and I saw on the NHS website that babies over one shouldn't be drinking from bottles with teats, he still has 2 bottles a day (morning and before bed) I'm using Dr Brown's at the moment which I hate cleaning so I'm looking to switch but I don't think he will get the same comfort from using a breaker at night

So basically the question is, any recommendations for a bottle for a one year old?

 

[justplay91]

We used a bottle-sippy transition cup at that point, I think. The Nuk one. Basically it's just a flatter teat that's supposed to be better for tooth development.

 

[Rainbow82]

DS is only ten months but he has a free flow sippy cup for his morning milk and a different sippy cup for his night time milk with a free flow tear but a soft one. He has a straw cup or the hard free flow cup in the day time for water. We will move him to a hard spit free flow sippy for his evening milk as soon as he doesn't need it dreamfed any more.

 

[BlingyGal]

DD is ten months and doesn't use a bottle. We have a munchkin 360 miracle cup, a one-way valve straw cup and a sippy cup. She mostly uses the 360 and sippy. And she likes to drink out of my water bottle straw, lol

 

[Rainbow82]

DD is ten months and doesn't use a bottle. We have a munchkin 360 miracle cup, a one-way valve straw cup and a sippy cup. She mostly uses the 360 and sippy. And she likes to drink out of my water bottle straw, lol

Just googled that munchkin cup and it looks amazing, think my DS would love it, where did you get it from, or did you have to order online?

 

[Kiwiberry]

My baby is 17 months and still loves her bottle. I have a Comotomo (you can buy it online or at buy buy baby) I needed something that would mimic a breast because she was EBF in the beginning. She LOVES it and will not use any other bottle. The best part about this bottle is its soft squeezy texture. If that make sense lol. She can squeeze the bottle whenever she wants and squirt liquid out of the nipple, kinda like a boob! She will NOT use sippy cups. I have tried so many and she throws them at me. She loves her bottle, and I am ok with that. She can wean off it when she is ready. I have been trying to get her to use a straw, but she still has not quite figured it out. Probably going to be one of those "by accident" type of deals.

Don't listen to what you read, you do whats best for you and your baby. There is a lot of unnecessary fear mongering when it comes to being a parent. A bottle does not effect a babies teeth unless the bottle is literally sitting in their mouth all night and all day. You can even do the same with a sippy cup, they are not exempt. That is what I mean about fear mongering. They take the truth and stretch it till parents are in a panic all the time wondering if their doing things right.

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[CoffeePuffin]

My one year old son still has 4 bottles a day but uses a straw cup for his water. My daughter changed from a bottle for milk to a straw cup when she was 18m.

 

[kellyc1987]

He likes drinking from a normal strawbut won't drink from a bottle with a soft straw, i've tried 2 different types of dippy cup (soft teat and hard teat) ove tried water, juice and milk and he doesn't seem to want to drink from them at all... Maybe he just isn't ready, I will keep offereing them but not forcing it

 

[Kiwiberry]

He likes drinking from a normal strawbut won't drink from a bottle with a soft straw, i've tried 2 different types of dippy cup (soft teat and hard teat) ove tried water, juice and milk and he doesn't seem to want to drink from them at all... Maybe he just isn't ready, I will keep offereing them but not forcing it

Good idea, don't force it and let your baby go at his own pace. I know when I try to get her to use a sippy cup she gets really upset. The straw is the big thing im trying with her since she sees us using it all the time. She goes to use it, but just have not figured out how yet.

 

[Rainbow82]

Sounds like you are on the right track, if he likes drinking from a normal straw use those to give him water in the day time and also offer him his sippy cups with water in the day. I wouldn't worry much about using a bottle twice a day if he is learning to drink from a straw for water during the day.

 

[BlingyGal]

DD is ten months and doesn't use a bottle. We have a munchkin 360 miracle cup, a one-way valve straw cup and a sippy cup. She mostly uses the 360 and sippy. And she likes to drink out of my water bottle straw, lol

Just googled that munchkin cup and it looks amazing, think my DS would love it, where did you get it from, or did you have to order online?

I bought it at Toys R Us. I know Buy Buy Baby sells them. Target in the USA does too (I'm in Canada). They are pretty amazing. Pretty spill proof unless my DD throws it off her highchair. And even then it's just a little bit of water that comes out, not the entire thing. The cup requires a sucking action, it took her a few days to figure it out but she was only six months old at the time too.

 

[Rainbow82]

Thanks blingygal, found one in boots yesterday DS loves it. When I tried it I found I had to suck quite hard to get much out but he seems to get loads out, we bought the trainer cup but think we will get the toddler version with a faster flow too.

 

[kellyc1987]

Ooohh might try one of those

 

[MindUtopia]

I would see the recommendation as babies over one should really be moving to use a bottle. It doesn't happen to happen the second they turn one, but you can start to experiment with seeing if he might take it in other forms. Try a sippy cup or a straw cup. You will probably find he resists at first, but that's okay. Leave it for a bit and try again in a few weeks to a month. He will eventually be happy to have it that way. We tried a bit before one to offer a straw cup for milk, but my daughter wasn't having it. We tried again at 13 months and she was perfectly happy to use the cup. We did keep her bedtime milk in a bottle until she was 15 months and then switched that to a straw cup as well. She didn't have any night feeds anymore at that point, but if she had, I would have just kept them in a bottle until she dropped them on their own. I don't think there's any point trying to force a cup when they're half asleep and those night feeds will be dropping on their own soon anyway.

 

[kellyc1987]

Success the miracle 360 training cup worked!! It took him a few goes to get how it worked, but after that he's using it!

 

[BlingyGal]

Thanks blingygal, found one in boots yesterday DS loves it. When I tried it I found I had to suck quite hard to get much out but he seems to get loads out, we bought the trainer cup but think we will get the toddler version with a faster flow too.

Yay! Good stuff!

 

[BlingyGal]

Success the miracle 360 training cup worked!! It took him a few goes to get how it worked, but after that he's using it!

Awesome! He's a fast learner!

 

[kellyc1987]

Seriously he is addicted to this thing, he takes it everywhere and won't stop driniking from it!!

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[BlingyGal]

Seriously he is addicted to this thing, he takes it everywhere and won't stop driniking from it!!

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Oh my goodness. That is seriously too cute!! I can't wait until my DD can walk on her own.