Transition from Bottle to Sippy Cup? - Valdosta,GA

Give him a little plastic tumbler cup or shotglass. No top. It is much better for oral motor development and visual development (eyes converge). Kids do not need sippy cups. They are perfectly able from about 10 months to direct their own cup to their mouth and drink it. They learn how much liquid to take in and how far back to tip their heads and balance. There will be some coughing at first but well worth it once he gets it. A regular cup is more like big people and babies love that! It should intrigue him.

Skip the sippy cup. Take him straight to a real cup. My boy was using a little tiny cup with a handle at age 10 months. I'm an old mom and I learned to drink out of a regular cup so I figured my boy could too. When we started at 10 months, I held the cup and had just water in it. By one year he was picking it up and drinking on his own. We don't even have any sippy cups.

Some people suggest putting the milk in the sippy cup and only water in the bottle. That way he has a choice, but if he wants the good stuff he has to go for the sippy. You could also start gradually by only giving him the sippy a few times a day and giving him the bottle the others and then working up to giving him the cup at all times.

Keep trying. Buy him a special fun cup!

I understand what you are going through. My daughter is a year and a half. She will drink water and juice from the sippy cup, but refuses milk in one. I am starting to give it to her in a regular cup with a straw. It is going well so far. Don't know if this will help or not, but thought I would let you know you are not alone. <3

I just did it cold turkey. But the first sippies I got him were the silicon topped ones so they still had a bottle feel without being a bottle. We also still called it a bottle for a short time so he wouldn't feel the switch too much. He did fine. It was more of a hassle to get my husband and my baby sitter on board.

Put it in front of him at every meal. Don't force him to drink out of it just ignore it and let him do it on his own. When he does make a move for it praise him for doing so. Start with the rubber tipped cups or get one that has a straw so kids like these better. It's going to take some time and won't happen overnight.

try a cup with a straw, some kids just don't like the sippy cups.

With my daughter we had to take all the spill proof things out of her cups, she wasn't strong enough to get anything out with them in. It worked for us. She does prefer a straw to a sippy cup, I guess it makes her feel like a big girl. :)