Using a Sippy Cup - North Wales,PA

Take the stopper out until he gets the hang of it. It's very messy but he'll eventually understand that if he tilts it back juice will come out. HOWEVER, the problem I have with my daugther is that now that I put the stopper in she doesn't understand that she has to suck to get the juice out.

There is something out there call a nubby (I might have spelled it wrong). It's a cross between a sippy cup and a bottle. Sometimes kids have a easier time with that. Some parents skip the sippy cup all together and go straight to regular cups.

Hi C.,
I had a very similiar problem with my daughter. She didn't quite get the sippy cup at all, I think because I was at first using the gerber cup that was hard plastic. I found Nuby sippy cups at Target (the have rubber tops, which seemed to helped becuase it had the same "feel" as her bottle)they did the trick. She is now 15 months old, and she hasn't had a bottle since about 12 1/2 months, and now she can even use the gerber sippies that I originally bought. hope this helps, hang in there, it does get better.

My 9 month old son loves the sippy cup that has a straw, I think Playtex makes it. He didn't take to the kind you have to tilt back either.

Hi C..

I would just take it slowly. Try changing the sippy cup or have a few different options for him and make it fun. They have these wonderful plastic tip sippy cups at walmarts and walgreens with no vents (or what ever the apparatus (sp?) is that you usually have to put in the sippy cup to stop it from leaking. These are wonderful because your toddler can chew on it and the little slits will open so he can get the juice.

I had the same issue with my son at 15 months trying to wean him off the breast. He chewed on the top for a long time and I just gave up thinking that he couldn't use a sippy cup but, once he seen his cousins doing it, he started to do it correctly. Which he could do the whole time, he just didn't want to!

C., just keep trying. This is what they do in the beginning with the sippy cups. Also, did you just start trying recently? If you have more children, start putting water in the cup around 8 or 9 months so that by the time you want to wean them off the bottle, they already know what to do with the cup. But as for your son, put his milk in the cup and hold it up to his mouth for him. Eventually, when he is thirsty enough, he will try to suck on it. Also, do you have a sippy cup with the longer spout. This is sometimes an easier transition because the spout is long like a bottle nipple. That's what I had to do for my daughter. Once she got the hang of it, I was able to switch to the shorter spout sippy cups. Good luck and just keep trying.

I would just keep trying. My son did the same thing when we introduced him to a sippy cup and he eventually caught on. Maybe try another brand also, one that's more like a baby bottle nipple, etc. Good luck!

We had the same problems here when we changed her from the bottle to a sippy cup. We had good luck with the sippy cups with the straws- I think playtex makes them. These seem to mimic the same motions she was used to with the bottle. Good luck!

We had the same problem with our daughter, so we tried the sippy cups with the clear soft spouts, they're almost the same material as the nipple for a bottle. We had to tilt it back for her until she figured out how to do it herself. It worked well, and was squishy so she could transition from sucking the bottle to sucking the cup, then we switched her to a regular sippy cup with no problem.

I had the same problem with my daughter(though she was a little younger)!!

Everyone suggested to get all the different cups with the soft spouts... Nuby was a favorite that was suggested. I tried them all I swear!!

The just one day she all of a sudden grabbed the old hard Playtex ones we had lying around!

Hi, C..
I had to try different bottles and the one that worked the best was the one of those First Year disposable ones that have a hard spout. She didn't like any other expensive ones that had soft spouts. I tried 3 different ones and after 2 months of trying, now we stick with those disposable ones.
So keep trying different ones and one day he will let you know when he likes something!
Good luck!

Hi C.~
We had the same problem with my son. He was teething at the same time and just wanted to chew on the cup. We just kept buying different cups and testing them out, which got a bit expensive. When we first weaned him from the bottle he enjoyed a cup that we got at Wal-Mart that had a straw. Also, I learned that using a straw helps toddlers develop the muscles in their mouths. This helps later with speech development.
Good Luck!
~E.

Did he just turn one? Don't worry about it too much. You're doing the right thing - have it out there at meal and snack times, but don't force it. Get the kind where the liquid flows out easily - no valves at first. That way when he tips it to his mouth he gets the reward of his favorite drink. I know it will be messy for awhile.

My kids did not have trouble weaning off the bottle, but you could try putting half the amount of liquid you normally do in the bottle. When he's done you could say "It's all gone now." "Do you want more?" Then offer the same liquid in a sippy cup. You could get cups in several colors or designs on the side and let him pick one (like a choice of 2 or 3).

I hope it works for you.
J.

My son did the same thing when we first switched him to the sippy cup. We went and bought the cups with the soft spouts so that he could transition a little bit better from bottle to cup. The hard spouts on some cups he didn't like and they were to hard for him to adjust to until he was a little bit older.

Hope this helps.

L.

I started my girls at 6 months with a sippy..mostly they played with it. When they turned 11 months I started giving it to them more and more. At 12 months the bottles went into the trash and when they did get a bottle it was filled with something they didn't like. It sounds mean but after a few days they acted like they had no idea what a bottle was. My dr told me that was the best way and easiest way to do it. You might also try a different cup....my kids were weird about what sippy they wanted to us and didn't want to use. Good luck...I hope I could help.

My son never really took to the sippy cups that you have to tilt up to drink from, so even though the straw cups say for 2+, that's what we used ever since he was a little younger than 1. They're made by playtex... He got the hang of them almost instantly!

Good luck-
J.

Dear C.,

I don't know if this will help you(my son went though the same thing)but my doctor told me to trash all the bottles and only give him a sippy cup. At first he would just chew but he will drink from it. I took me about 24 hours and he was drinking from a sippy. Also i gave him a silicone top sippy cup ididn't go right to the hard ones. Hope this help

The ones with the valves can be really really hard to suck from. It might take him a while to work up his muscles to that.

I wouldn't stress too much about getting him off the bottle. As long as bedtime bottles only have water so you don't have to worry about his teeth rotting. Just take it slow and gently.

I had to be a little militant with my daughter. At 12 months she did not want to get off the bottle and had been born 12 weeks early but my doctor and daycare said she had to be off it. So I took away the bottle one meal at a time over a weekend ( for my ease with working), usually lunch or dinner and refused to use the bottle. No matter what even if she drank nothing. It also helped that I would not give her milk in the bottle and was weaning her off formula at teh same time on to whole milk. My doctor and friends assured me she would not let her self starve b/c she was godd eater, I do NOT rec. this for kids with nutrtional deficits or other eating or developmental delays. Anyway I kept first thing AM and before bed to the last b/c they are more about comfort. It seems extreme but it really worked in about 4 days she was off the bottle completely. This in a child who refused water from a sippy cup as or ped would not allow any juice till after 2 b/c of childhood obsiety studies??
I am extremely disturbed to see my cousins kids still using bottles at 5 and sucking on pacifiers, besides being bad for teeth, it is emotionally unmaturing. BUT YOU ARE NOWHWERE NEAR THIS AS YOU ARE TRYING! She refuses and just lies to the doctor!
A
H. Roberts
Mom to a 4 1/2 year old girl, Katie, counselor, wife, who is new to the Eastern Shore

We phased my daughter to a sippy cup by using those plastic cups with straws at first. She got used to that quicker and then later the sippy cups were no problem - have no idea why.

Good luck

You might want to try a straw and see how he does with that. When my son went off the bottle he wasn't big on using the sippy cup so when he saw my drinks with straws he would come over and eventually learned how to suck up to get it to come out.

HI there are two ways to go about this and I've tried them also my friend has. Try differnt sippy cups and if he doesn't like them try the ones with straws. My friends daughter would only use them and did just what youe son is doing. Also instead of juice put the milk or water into the cups and try that. Everything is an experiment with kids good luck.

Try a straw cup. My son went straight to them. He was use to sucking so it came natural. Also one of the shorter sippy cups filled all the way to the top - We have a few with handles on both sides that are super short. That way there's little tipping that needs to be done and they get the concept.