11 month old on a sippy cup?

It is not too early, most doctors say to start at 6 months and then no more bottles at 12 months, and all of your reasons are very good.

However, it should be the parents decision when to change over to a cup. Talk to them and see what they think about it. Odds are, they will be all for it.

As far as her using the bottle as a comfort object, when switching her over you can give her a dolly or special blanket a few days before you take away the bottle and transition her to using that instead of a bottle. Both of my girls have their special dollies that they can't sleep without.

If she still has trouble sleeping through the night you can give her a sippy cup of water to keep in her bed (but only a little water or she may over-wet her diaper).

Definitely not too early. My son will be 1 this month, he will use a sippy cup although he prefers a bottle. We are working on breaking him of the bottle and switching him to regular milk at the same time. He started practicing with a sippy cup when he was 5 months old. If she is tired, she will take her naps. You should never put a baby to bed with a bottle anyway for several reasons, the milk can drip into her ears and cause ear infections and fluid build up, her teeth can rot and if bad enough need surgery to correct the problem. Sleeping through the night will come back, besides as long as they have full tummies they should be fine, all kids go through their ups and downs with it though. There are other ways to try to ease the removal of the bottle as well. Maybe get her a security blanket to rub when she goes to sleep, or a stuffed animal. My son has this thing, I have no clue what it's called, but it's a dog head and it has a mini blanket for a body.

Babies need suckling satisfaction, and they need a quantity of formula that can be hard to get from a sippy cup, until they are at least a year old.

If there is an issue here, it's that baby is 'sucking on a bottle all day.' She should NOT be walking around with a botttle all day. Bottles are taken while held in mama's (or the caregiver's) arms. At 11 months, she is probably taking 3-5 bottles a day, which should take up maybe an hour or 90 minutes of her day, doing no harm to her dental hygeine (you do brush her teeth if she has them, right) or her ability to practice talking.

And there is a big difference between weaning her very early and waiting until she is past 2 years and in her 'terrible 2's. Anything between 12-18 months or so is typical, and just fine. (And, to clarify, suckling isnt 'a habit' to be broken ... it's a legitimate physical need.

To clarify too -- of course you can introduce a sippy cup (if you haven't done so alraedy) for water and/or a little diluted juice. But formula is a breastmilk substitute, and just as you wouldn't be pumping breastmilk and putting it in a cup for a baby this age, there is no need to put her formula in a cup.

Why should using a bottle imply the baby sucking the bottle all day long? You hold a baby during a feed, and when she's through you throw out whatever is left and put the bottle away. I'm most puzzled about your concern about baby's sleeping habits. Surely she is fed BEFORE bed, not just given a bottle to take TO bed?

I introduced a sippy cup at 6 months. Not as a replacement of the bottle, but for the sips of water I give my son before and after solids. Sippy cups and bottles can be used at the same stage, it's not a matter of either/or.

It's not too early to introduce it, but I wouldn't expect her to be off the bottle for a few more months. Generally it's by 18 months that parents should look to dropping the bottle. In the meantime, you can give her a sippy with a bit of water in it and just let her handle it and play with it. You can show her how to drink from it, but don't expect her to take all her formula from them. They don't work as well as bottles for flow, and she still needs a lot of formula at this age. You can also try lots of different sippies. My daughter took to ones with straws and actual cups long before she took to the sippies with spouts.

Good luck!

My daughter used a sippy cup perfectly fine from 5 months so 11 months is well on the way to being late with having a bottle

Just hide ALL of the bottles and give liquids with normal cups and glasses. She's too old for a bottle and a sippy cup will leak all over the place and ruin her teeth.