Going from Formula in a Bottle to Milk in a Cup

It sounds like you've changed two major things for her in a small amount of time. You need to either wean her off the formula or off the bottle first. Then you can wean her off the other. It'll be easier on her.

To wean off formula, you start off with 3/4 formula and 1/4 milk. Following week, it's 1/2 formula and 1/2 milk. The last week, it's 1/4 formula and 3/4 milk. The week after that, you'll just give her milk. I used the same technique with my two oldest and it worked great.

As far as the cup is concerned, simply put, you're gonna have to bite the bullet. Have her drink from a cup. Start off with a meal where you can sit by her and hold the cup for her when she needs a drink. Pain in the rear, I know, but it's the quickest way to get her on the cup. She's too young to hold it themselves. But, she sees everyone else in the household drinking for a cup, and children are ususally eager to do things like grownups.

After she gets used to the cup (however long that may be) you can give it to her whenever she's thirsty or during a meal. Once she can hold it herself, you can put it out of her reach until she's ready to take a drink. That way, you're not having to clean up lots of spilled drinks. ;)

I hope this helps. Good luck!

I really agree with Amanda's advice. We too use the take & toss straw cups a lot. (warning though, don't put the lid on with the straw IN the liquid or it will squirt out the top since they are semi spill proof). I'd do cups with each meal and during the day as much as possible. I'd do bottles on demand and maybe at night/morning, but decrease the amount in the bottle gradually until it is down to none. My second son was VERY attached to the bottle and this weaned him gently. It was kinda funny because he'd drink it all and then look at the bottle as if he were thinking "that's it?!?, alrighty then, okay" and then move on to playing. :)

we used Nuby Sport Sippers as an "in-between" stage. They look like a cross between a sippy and a bottle. The top is somewhat nipple shaped, but has a definite straw look to it (the straw does not extend into the cup, though). Our daughter refused milk in anything other than a bottle until she was 12.5 months old, then she was willing to take these. At about 14 months, she started to take daytime milk in regular cups (the Take-N-Toss ones were our best bet). We got her off the Nuby cups before bedtime at about 16.5 months.

If your daughter likes a regular straw (ours does, but doesn't like the built in straw cups either), Take-n-toss makes a cup with a lid and a normal straw. They are not totally spill proof, but they do work pretty well and she loves them.

I agree with the gradually adding milk to the formula and weaning down to just milk. Also when my son went from having a bottle during the day to drinking from a cup I had to warm the milk for the first few months and gradually I warmed it less and less until he got used to it. That may help as well.