Hi Moms,
I was wondering how you got your babies used to a sippy cup. My son is a few weeks shy of a year. It seems like I've bought every sippy cup out there. He does seem to like the nuby but he kind of just chews on the spout, not much sipping. Our pediatrician told us not to give him juice for a long time but i've mixing some with water and using it in the sippy cup to make it more appealing. Anyone have a cup they or their babies prefer or any strategies?
Thanks!
There are many different sippy cups in the market, parents can try different brands and see how it works for their child. Some child prefer a straw cup instead of a sippy cup, but in most cases, when the child is ready, they'll get use to it.
Maybe try taking the lid off and seeing if he wants to drink straight from the cup? My son (about the same age) likes to do that. I have to hold he cup, but he gets a good drink in. Supposedly, they're old enough at this stage to hold their own cup without the lid, but that hasn't quite worked for us yet!
I have some sippy cups with very nipple-like spouts, they don't leak, and the plastic is safe. They are from thinkbaby http://www.rightstart.com/global/store/product~item~8834~...
I love them, and so does my son.
Definitely. My daughter never even took her own bottle and refused to try & get something out of the sippy cup. Would instead just play with it and chew on it (she plays with her drop-ins bottles also instead of trying to hold it to drink from!). But low and behold, we actually found 1 and only 1 type sippy cup amongst dozens that are now laying aroudn the house. This one is from Playtex, is around $4, is sold even in CVS, and has say an orange bottom and green top. It has a pop-out straw (which for the life of me I would've never tried had it not been for a mom's suggestion b/c sipping from a straw seems like a more complex task?!).
Nevertheless, it is the one and only one she'll really take. Even now, if we try and re-introduce another she will just push it away. But then again, my spit-fire littel girl thinks she's grown and I think part of the appeal of the straw-cup was that she had seen me drink from a straw and got very excited to do likewise. She's been sold out ever since. Give it a shot- should really work. Good luck!
Try the Nuby straw cup. I didn't like sippy's. I felt it was too hard to be lifted and held up, and always had to help my son with it. The straw cups are wonderful.
My oldest started with the straw cup and went to sippy, my youngest went straight to the platex sippy, my neighbors likes gerber, but all I can say is each child likes what they like and unfortunetly it is expensive and tring to find out what that is, but you will. I do recomend handles, mine loved the handles.
My kids both started the sippy by 7 mos. My daughter never liked it. She still doesn't at 16mos. She does however like a strawed cup. That is what she prefers more then anything. Try those. Kyah started on them at 9 mos and she almost doesn't drink from anything else during the day. They also make them spill proof.
At 6 months I just started putting a little bit of juice or water in a cup and putting it on the tray at mealtimes. They'd pick it up, play with it, pour it and even drink a sip or 2. Neither of my kids could drink from the cups with a spill-proof vent in it though. Take it out, so that the liquid pours from the spout without them needing to suck. Obviuosly then it's not spill-proof, but it still has a top, so it'll only spill a little if dropped or thrown. After taking the spill-proof things off the cups, both my kids learned to drink very quickly. Also, make sure the cups you give aren't too big or heavy. Babies hands are tiny and some of the cups are pretty big for them to hold.
The Gerber and Avent cups worked well for us.
Try a straw cup. I found the First Years Take and Toss straw cup is the best. They are hard to really spill and are easy to use. My son hated sippy cups but took to these immediately. Furthermore, a speach and occupational therapist told me that a straw cup is best for speach development.
The only way I could get my kids to drink from a cup was to do 2/3 water and 1/3 apple juice. The pediatrician didnt want me giving them juice, but I did anyway. My son liked the Nuby cup (which leaks like crazy by the way) and my daughter liked the playtex cups with the valve in it. I had my son off the bottle by his 1st bday and my daughter off it by 15 mos. They all figure it out eventually. Good luck.
hi tahara, my son too is very funny and snuggly, the best!!! anyway i've tried avent first and he did take them, now at 15 mos loves the nuby straw cup it's way easier to suck (i';ve tried them.. you can build a sweat sucking out of avent.hahah) and is supposed to be better for their teeth.... also likes the munchkin brand.. it says 2 and up but is fine and is also bpa free.. good luck -M.
Hi Tahara,
My son didn't like any of the sippy cups that I bought, until I came home with the Gerber Graduates sippy cup that is slanted. I think it made it easier for him to drink from because he didn't have to tip the cup all of the way.
Take care. Happy Holidays.
D.
Hi,
my first had used the nuby sippy then was able to transition to the other sippy's.
my second does not use sippys and never took to them. However, she LOVES drinking from a straw and I found the Munchkin brand with a straw to be the best for her - it has a built-in valve to prevent spills from the straw itself.
No worries - kids will get thirsty enough to drink and they just need to learn how to do it. Give it time. :)
Another option is to let them play with it with water inside the cup to explore and figure it out - not when they're hungry/thirsty because then they get frustrated. :)
Hi Tahara ... I'm pretty sure that sippy cups are the Devil's work! LOL My son just turned 1, and he just hates them--and I have every kind, too! He will, however, drink from a regular cup, but I have to hold it for him, until he learns to hold it himself and not launch it across the room LOL I guess I'm laughing about it because it's so darn early in the morning--I'm punchy! Anyway, I don't think there's any solution, really. Some babies will just use the sippy, while others won't. It's a trial and error thing, I guess. Keep working with it. Otherwise, do what I do and just keep trying the cut without the sippy. Eventually they'll get the hang of it. Until then, Bounty to the rescue!!!
-T.
I am going right past the sippy cup and to a regular cup. If that does not work, I will try a straw with a cup.
My daughter really likes the Playtex Insulated Sport with the straw top. It is also better for their jaw then the sippy cups with the suction. And the liquid inside does stay cold.
Hi Tahara,
My daughter is 15 months old and I brought a bunch of different sippy cups for her and than she liked the one with the straw (she loves straws since she was 8 months old) and than once I found that she liked that one I let her get use to that and I have been giving her other ones also And has been working well. Hope this helps you out.
Best of luck,
J.
My littlest was about seven mos when she started to drink from the NUK cup. The spout is soft like a nipple, but shapped like a sippy. It was very easy to suck on. We started her on it, because she was sick, but she refused the bottle (or any other cup) after she used this one! A coulpe of monthes later she moved on to all other sippy cup just fine. The only place we could ever find them was wal-mart. I think I may found one at Babies r us once.
Hi there,
My daughter wanted nothing to do with the sippy cup at 12 months old too. It seemed like she just couldn't suck hard enough to anything out of them. Then I found the transition nurser that a company called "Second Nature" makes. It comes with two nipples spouts, a regular one like a bottle and then one that is on the side of the cup that made of the same material as the bottle nipple. It worked in a month. The bottle also has handles so it is easy for them to hold. We used the regular center nipple for two weeks and then gradually introduced the side spout starting once a day then increased it to twice a day until we eliminated the center nipple altogether. The cup doesn't leak either. I loved it. Then at 14 months she went on to the standard first stage playtex sippy cup. I would just recommend if you decide to used the the transition cup, that you shouldn't put them in the dishwasher, the cup will start to leak after a couple of washings. Wash by hand and it will be fine. I posted the website but I bought them on Amazon.com because they were cheaper there. Good Luck!!
Hi Tahara-
My son was having some difficulty transitioning off the bottle to a sippy cup too, so this is what we did (w/ great success!). I first eliminated the lunch bottle and gave him the nuby "sports bottle." It's inbetween a bottle/sippy cup. He really like that. I then eliminated all bottles and only gave him the nuby sports bottle. Then I transferred him to the nuby sippy cup and then to playtex (I like the 12 mos. v. the other ones better b/c the the plastic piece stays in place better and my son likes to bring it all over the house!) this all happened over the course of 3-4 days. Good luck :)
first, i would definitely stick with just water. juice has so much sugar, even if there isn't any added. also, you want your son to enjoy water when he's older.
my daughter often prefers a regular cup to a sippy, and she's only 10 months. i bought her the born free sippy since it's PBA free and had a soft, flexible spout. the harder spouts were more challenging for her.
good luck!
It's not the cup but the kid. When he is thirsty and ready to drink he will. Don't spend a fortune on different cups. Pick one, offer it to him and when he wants it he will drink.
D. V
It was the same with my daughter... we tried every cup, every spout... finally , when she was 13 months, I gave up and she continued to take a bottle. In a couple of weeks I saw her to sit up right and try to level her bottle to drink from it. So, I knew, she finally got the idea. I bought a sippy cup next day and she used it since. The brand doesn't matter... so, maybe, you'll wait a little bit, she'll definitely grasp the idea pretty soon. Meanwhile, keep showing her how to drink from the cup - so she sees you drinking and try with her from time to time. But as far as it works with my daughter with everything, they just figure out everything by themselves at their own time.
Just read other responses, and yes,I remembered, she used the sippy with the straw before. They're easier to use because the kids don't to have to elevate them, but actually don't teach the idea of drinking from a cup. Maybe, start with that sippy - it's also good if she learns to drink through the straw.
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Both my boys liked the Playtex cups with the dual handles to start with. What I did at first was take the stopper out. The sucking needed for the sippy cup is different than for nursing or for a bottle, and they need to learn how. Taking the stopper out means they get some liquid without much work, and learn that way. The other tip I had was to start a lunchtime - in the morning, they are too hungry/thirsty to "struggle" with a new technique, and at dinner/bed time they are too tired. I started with juice/water combo of about 1/4, and left the stopper out for about a week before putting it in, and then they both were able to use it.
