How did you switch from bottles&formula to cups&milk?

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The doctor told me at the 12 month appointment today that ideally we just needed to be off bottles by his next appointment at 15 months. I have bought 5 cups in the past 3 months and I just don't feel like it's going very well. He drinks water ok and loves having it even from a 16 oz Gatorade water bottle, but I have not been able to get him to drink more than 2 oz of milk or formula from a cup in the past month since I really started focusing on trying to wean off bottles. He is drinking whole milk fine and has been all weekend since his birthday but the cups are giving me anxiety. He barely holds it himself and throws it on the ground after about 2 minutes. I'm trying to have him drink the milk at meals instead of between meals and I feel like we are not doing well. We have a straw cup,munchkin 360, and clear nuby sippy that he drinks water out of and he can also drink water from an open plastic cup when we hold it. Any suggestions from anyone who had a hard time switching to cups?

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My daughter is breastfed. has never had a bottle. We introduced a straw cup around 6 months. Now only 11 days from being a year old she has mastered the cup. She has water with her meals for now. I wont be giving her milk until after her one year check up.

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My son is breastfed and gets a bottle when I'm at work. We've been trying the sippy cup since 7 months (with water mostly) and he isn't interested.. he usually just throws it.

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LO is drinking water out of a munchkin 360 sippy cup now. We have no begun the switch with his formula. From what I’ve read, you do it one meal bottle at a time. First, breakfast then lunch then dinner and finally last wean is the bedtime bottle. 
He loves drinking out of his munchkin sippy cup and out of regular cups but throws it after so many gulps. 
Ideally, I want him off these bottles by the time I have his brother or sister in May/June 2018 because I need his bottles for that baby.

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We introduced cups around 6 months so that he would be used to them when he turned a year old. He drinks breastmilk and water out of cups with no issue. We started replacing one bottle of breastmilk with a cup each day for the past few weeks. He turns one on Saturday and is officially off of bottles now. I haven’t started milk yet because I still have about 1000 oz of breastmilk to go through.

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My LO drinks whatever we offer in whatever cup or bottle it’s offered in. She’s not picky luckily. I just randomly started giving her water/BM/juice water in her cups and she never said no. We haven’t started milk yet but I assume she won’t care what we give it in.

How did you switch from bottles&formula to cups&milk?

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