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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If the drink is had all at once, it doesn't matter whether its in a cup or bottle. It's only a problem if the child carries the bottle round sipping and having their teeth bathed in sugars constantly. I agree you should make juices as weak as a child will stand them, to minimise sugars, maximise water intake and also not encourage a liking for very sweet tastes. I still have juice halved with water, and rarely squash, at about 10:1 not 4:1
As to not drinking from a cup generally, I think 8 months is too young to be worrying about this, cup feeding is a completely different technique from suckling. I would be happy with waiting till he is a year old if that's what he's happy with, especially as he has no teeth.
I HATE seeing small children feeding themselves from a baby's bottle - especially if the bottle holds tea / coffee / fizzy drinks.
I know people who never used training cups at all, but I think that's going too far.
Both of my sons had bottles of juice (those ones that are elongated ring shaped so that they can hold them easily) until they were about 18 months old. Baby advise books should be banned as you have to do what's right for you and your child. What on earth do you think is going to happen if your child carries on having a bottle at 8 months - diddly squat thats what. Enjoy being a parent, stop looking things up in a book and stop worrying.
Also, if you are using the Avent bottles, the spouts that you get fit in the Avent bottles in place of the teats and this may "fool" your little one into thinking its still a bottle. Might be worth a try.
I also agree with the point that baby juice is a waste of money. Diluted fruit juice is just fine.
Finally my daughter doesn't drink water either but I have found a brand of fruit-flavoured water that she will drink and it hasn't got aspartame in as an artificial sweetener (its Asda's own brand) they do it in guava&mango, raspberry, cranberry and another flavour (that I can't remember).
Hope this helps.
Hi i am a dental nurse and I see the problems that drinking juice from a bottle causes every day. I am also a mum and have had problems getting my little girl to drink water, when she was small she had constipation so i needed to get her to have water desperatly so i used pure orange with water 3 parts water to juice and slightly warmed it in her bottle that was the only way she would take it.
Pure orange does act as a laxative if used regulary and it still contains natural sugar that harm teeth but is better than squash. I was always told that if my baby was thirsty then she will drink water and if she wont to try another time as powder milk acts as a drink as well as food.
After many trials and errors my baby girl who is 9 months drinks water out of a cup but i dont offer her any thing else. Every baby is different though so you need to find what works best for you and if it has to be juice then have it with a meal as this will do the least damage, its only really a problem having it between meals.