Changing bottles?

My 16 month old is still on formula, in the morning, his nap time and bedtime. He has all of his meals but still cant seem to get off a bottle. We are using the MAM bottles as we always have with him but I am now beginning to worry about baby bottle teeth rot and wondering if I should get rid of the teet bottles and switch to a sippy cup? During the day he has his water in a bottle with a straw which he loves and has no problem with. We just haven't attempted milk in a beaker yet. I think the time has come. If anyone is in the same boat at all, I would really appreciate if anyone could let me know how they transitioned and which cups youd recommend? Thankyou!

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No advice but exactly the same as you

@Grace so glad im not the only one!😫

No advice on swapping the bottles because we still use a Mam bottle for formula at bedtime however for his morning and afternoon milk I literally went cold turkey (one at a time) and offered a snack instead at the time I would have given the milk and he wasn’t bothered not having the milk at all! I then realised he didn’t need the snack either 😂 so you could just try removing the two day time ones if he doesn’t like the zippy cup x

I'd look to replace morning and nap time bottle with snack, then either replace 1oz formula with cows milk ( if that's what you'll move to) or do straight swap. We did straight swap.

NHS recommend 3 portion of diary a day so includes cheese and yogurt too. Our LB has milk in his porridge every morning.

My LB has between 4-7oz cows milk for bedtime, but he won't entertain in anything other than his bottle.
Loves his straw cup for water. Keep trying to offer milk in straw cup and open cup.

My little one will only nap/sleep on bottle so we are the same! As he is down to 1 daytime nap (mostly) he gets milk late morning for nap and then one before bed.
He won’t drink milk out of the straw cups, but I have been considering trying a sippy cup to see if that helps as it’s still a sucking motion…sort of!
So yeah, no advice… but similar boat 😂

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