When should my 7 month old baby start using sippy cup? Does it replace a bottle?
Although there is no one rule on when to start sippy cups, I do recommend getting rid of the bottle and switching to a cup at a year of age. There are two reasons for this: 1. at a year of age, children are switched from formula to whole cow’s milk. It’s easy to make both switches at once. 2. Also, infants tend to drink much less from cups than from bottles. After the first birthday, many kids will fill up on milk instead of solids (which are more caloric) and gain weight slowly. This is less likely to happen with cups than with bottles. There is no reason why a 7 month old cannot start using a cup. At this age, you have to hold the cup for the child while drinking. My daughter just turned one yesterday. She will only take her milk from a bottle. She will drink water out of her sippy cup but refuses to drink any milk from the cup. Should I keep trying until she accepts the cup? Will it hurt her if she just won’t drink any milk until she gets use to having it in a cup?
