Sippy Cups - Independence, KY

I know you said you have tried different cups, but my cousin had the same problem with her daughter. At Walmart they have cheaper sippy cups that have a soft plastic top. They worked for her, but you have to watch because they spill easy after a couple uses. Another good cup was the Nuby brand with a soft kind of spout so they can kind of chew/bite it like a bottle nipple.Hope that helps some!

Hi C..
I don't know what all cups you've tried but the one that worked for and for a good friend of mine is called Nuby. You can get them at Walmart for less than 2 dollars. They have in the baby section where the feeding chairs and feeding utensils are. They have really soft sippy tops like a bottle. They also have them in all different colors. Like I said I don't know if you've tried them but they worked for me. Good luck with the breaking of the bottle. -C.-

I say you are already doing all you can. You can't force him to drink from a cup. You don't necessarily have to have him on a sippy cup, as M stated. Life is easier that way, however...
I just let my son play with his cup until one day he discovered that juice was in it! I introduced the cup to him at 6 months, (he'll be 1 on March 2, so ours are around the same age), so he's had time to become a pro at it, and your son will too. The best cups I have found are actually The First Years disposable sippy cups. They are inexpensive, (they come in packs of four for around $3.99), and your son won't have to suck so hard to get any of the liquid out. Have you ever tried sucking on one of those things? You need some powerful suction to drink from most brands of cups. Anyway, if you try those cups I suggested, be careful because the lids have a tendancy to pop off if they get thrown down hard enough! (Which my son does, a lot.) Have you tried the cups that have a spout similar to a nipple? Those might work...

Hi C.,
I had trouble getting my son to use a sippy cup (he is now 15 months) until I took out the plastic thing in the spout that makes it spill proof (this was a Playtex sippy cup). Once the juice / milk came out more easily, he got used to it right away. He just couldn't figure out how to suck on the spill proof ones. It was a good transition until he learned how to use them better.
good luck!
K., mom of Henry.

I have a 4 year old boy that never took sippy cups. I tried every type and style on the market, even the ones with straws. We finally gave up and bought him a small cup that he could handle without help. I only put in enough for a few sips, so that he wouldn't make a huge mess.

My daughter refused to use a regular sippy cup. She always wanted to play with our regular cup or drink from my straw so that is what we did was buy the sippy straw cups. She loves them and now sometimes when she sees other kids sippy cups she does try to grab them but i am not sure if she would use it the right way. Good luck.

Have you tried Hersheys Chocolate and Milk?
My son took the sip cup and never put it down until it was gone, he is still a daily chocolate milk drinker, and hes 10 now, I don't even like white milk.
What you may try is a spoon, tell him taste this, its special.
Then he will see he likes it and put the lid on, and say heres the rest if you like that, it will taste even better in this cup.
If that don't float, maybe get them cups now that have the flip up straw or drink part where it is easy to drink and seals shut when flipped down.
But I would give chocolate milk a try.
R.

This is another issue I had. Everything I read said your baby should be off the bottle by 12 months. Luckily I had a wonderful pediatrician that said the goal is really 15 months. When my son turned 15 months I still didn't think I was going to be able to get him to drink from a sippy cup (he would on occasion prior to 15 months but never consistently). About 1 week after he turned 15 months he drank an entire sippy cup of milk. Since then he's been on cups only. I think you just need to wait until he's ready. But when he starts being able to drink a lot from a cup do no give him ANY bottles. They quickly learn (when they're ready) to get off the bottle.

What I did with my daughter is I only gave her a cup during the day. Usually they will eventually get thirsty enough to use the cup. She was only aloud a bottle at bed time. Once she got used to using her cup we took the bottle away completely.

I don't know if your willing to do this or not but I just saw on supernanny the same thing.The child might have been slightly older but not by much.She insisted that the mother only do sippy cup even after the child had a fit needless to say lasted for 2 hours but her persistency pay off.She also had the little girl give her bottles away for anouther baby to have.
On a different subject goodluck in life.I am a stay at home mom but up to 2 years ago was a full time hairdresser too.I know how the pay is and being a single mom adds to the stress so goodluck!!

The little boy I babysit has never really taken a sippy cup. He went from the bottle to taking a cup with a straw (with a lid) when he was only 12mos. Be careful if he does start taking sippy cups though because you're supposed to wean them off of those no later than 2 I think. The little girl I used to babysit has speech problems because she was still taking hers at 4.

Try the Nubys with the soft spout! My daughter would only take thoughs until about 13-14 months then she finally went to a regular sippy cup!!

I know how you feel. It took 3 months to get my daughter to drink from a cup. Then, another 4 to get her to drink milk from it. The best advice I can give is repeated exposure. Your son will eventually get it. Just keep giving it to him. Sometimes it can be helpful to take the stopper out and let him see if he sucks on it, there are fluids inside and/or put an ice cube in a small amount of juice. The noise can be fun for the babies. My daughter's first sippy cup she would actually use was a Nubby cup. It's shaped much closer to a bottle's nipple. Once we found that cup, she really got started.

Try using a Nuby cup, they are cuppy shaped nipples, but they feel like a bottle in your childs mouth, maybe they just need to get used to the shape and feel of a sippy cup. Gerber also makes a cup that is similar.

Try the toddler cups with a lid and straw in them. They're in with the regular sippy cups. And they are spill-proof as well. My oldest son used these ones the most and loved them.

my daughter also would not take a sippy cup. the only thing that finally worked for us was putting ovaltine in the milk and giving her chocolate milk. its frustrating, i know. my daughter didnt like juice at the time so we werent able to use that either.

Hi C.,

I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you decided to breastfeed him till 2 or longer nobody would really say anything, becaus ebreastfeeding is good for the kids and everybody thinks itis great, but bottles are looked at bad.

Tell me why sippy cups are better than bottles. They are not. They actually are about the same thing besides that the nipple is hard. There are enough studyies out there that say that switching to a regular glass/cup is the best thing to do.
So my daughter is still having her bottle at 17 month, she loves to drink out of a regular cup or one with a straw now too and I just let her do it at her own pace. Not every baby is ready for a sippy cup or to be weaned of brest or bottle. They need their own pace.
Not every child walks at 10-11 month like my daughter, lots of her friends started at around 12-14 months and some even between 15-18 months, but that was no problem, that was developmental. But it is the same with sippy cups. Give him time. They just make easier "fun" about it than walking, it is tabu to say he/shee is not walking yet? But a lot easier to say he is not taking the sippy yet?

Give him time, he will take it when he is ready and up to 2 I think it is no problem.

By the way, if they tell you it is better for the teeth. thatr is wrong too. That is a common believe in the Us and not true. The both have nipple style attachments and deliver the drink right to the same spot. Sucking ont hem is very similar too.
Just clean his teeth regular and that you should with sippies too.

T..

I'd try the soft top cups, I think you'll be really happy and they are really inexpensive. Something else to try, I know it might seem dumb, but try drinking out of one yourself and let him see you doing it, kids seem to respond well to that, they want what you have.

I had this problem with my son. The trick was a different kind of sippy cup to transition him. There is a brand of cup called Nuby (Walmart normally carries them) that is more like a sports bottle but with a silicone nipple-like top. This company also makes the traditional sippy cup lid but also in silicon.

We started with the sports bottle lids and within a month had taken him over to the sippy cup lids. Within another month we had him using normal hard lidded sippy cups and sports bottles.

It was just a texture thing for him.

You definitely don't need him to use a sippy cup in order to wean him from the bottle!

You can wean him directly to a regular cup. Or you can use a cup w/ lid and straw. There's no reason he HAS to use a sippy. :)

Have you tried the Nuby cups that they sell at Wal-mart. It is a short fat cup with large handles. This cup has a soft silicone top with a sippy cup style spout. Becasue it is soft and has to be squeezed and sucked on to get the liquid out similar to a bottle, it makes an easier transition. My son has done great with it! Good Luck
A.

You might want to try the Nubby sippy cup. It has a soft silicone spout that will let the beverage out when he bites on it. He'll get the hang of sucking on it when he realizes that there's something in there that he wants. It's the only kind that my daughter would use. You can find them at Walmart, Target, and sometimes at Meijer.