RE: when and how to drop bottles and move to a sippy cup??
How about dropping the 11am and 3 pm first - start with formula in a cup - or even go right to the whole milk and a snack. I know that DS is hungry about those times and is looking to eat. Maybe your dd is hungry and needs a little more food.
Here is what we did...
I still BF first thing in the morning - and once or twice during the day depending on what we are doing and how DS feels.
DS was getting a bottle or two a day -
about 2 weeks after his first birthday we just stopped giving him the bottle.
We tried milk, but it didn't agree with DS - so he just got water in the cups. And he would drink a sip and then spit it out.
Just yesterday he wanted soy milk... so he has had that for 2 days.
We started with the NUBY cups (walmart for a $1 something) He uses those every once in a while - He uses the playtex cups - We have the handles and the taller ones without handles (although the lids fit both)
The peditritian said that as long as DS was getting 600-800 mg of calcium per day then it didn't matter that he wasn't drinking as much milk. Cheese, yogurt...
Good Luck!
It will all work out!
Deanna
my three sons
8/95, 10/04 and 6/08