Hi Moms,
Even though I have a 2 year old, it seems that every child is different. With my 2 year old, as soon as he turned 10 months, the same day, stopped formula and the bottle and gave him the sippy cup, he did great! It wasn't a hard transition at all. He was getting so much nutrition from other foods, that i didn't feel bad for stopping the formula.
Now with my almost 9 month old, i gave him a sippy cup 2 days ago with his formula in it, and he was a pro! So I decided to give him his formula now in a sippy cup. He's been bottle free for 3 days now. He is still taking in enough formula, it hasn't cut down because it's in a cup now.
Also, both my kids fall asleep without a bottle, so I got lucky in that department!
But has anyone else ever done this? If so, do you think that the rubber nippled sippy cups are a waste of time, or should I get the hard sippy cups?
Thanks!
we found that the soft tipped sippies were not spill proof for very long. It took my youngest son 15 minutes.
one bite down and the little things break, and then it is leaking all over the place. What a waste.
we like the 1st years. cause they are all one piece, no separate valve to clean.
OK not really advise for your question but a word of warning. Sippy cups (at any age can cause earinfections) my youngest was off her bottle at 7 months and started sippies. That is when the ear infections began... 3 months and 5 rounds of antibiotics with no results (who other issue) later someone somewhere recommended me taking her off sippy cups and see if that helps. Sure enough it did. She was the only under one year old around drinking out of a regular cup. But she was capable of doing it with help.
As for is he getting enough formula if he is drinking the same amount and most of it is not leaking out or running down the front of him he certainly is.
I have several varieties of sippy cups.. I like the gerber ones the best.. they have a screw on lid that stays on.. they have only the cup the lid and the valve so they are easy to clean.
we have a couple of straw cups and my son likes those.. we also have nuby rubber spout cups.. I dont think it really matters my kids use all of the cups..
I would pick ones that are easy to clean.. some of ours have a 4 or 5 pieces that have to be taken apart to clean and then put back together.. it is a pain.
After trying several sippy cups we are now using the Playtex Twist and Click. They are great! We had so many issues with ALL the other ones leaking, NOTHING with these. She really has to bang the cup down to even get a few drops to come out.
We used the rubber spouted sippy cups for my sons transition, but he was highly resistant (and still is) to any change at all. His doctor told me that they shouldn't be used as a primary cup, but as a transition to a regular hard spoutted one, or a cup without a lid at all, as the rubber ones are more or less just bottles with a faster flow.
they have rubber-nippled sippy cups? (guess that answers for me! LOL!)
We used the travel/ disposable, but the lids were a pain to get off - still are so I use the cups for my painting. :P
I liked using the Advent ones, which I believed were not rubber plastic tipped, but had a flow-stopper to avoid spillage. They changed colors with cold-warm fluids.
We used mostly Advent stuff tho throughout the growing years - never had an issue with any of their things... Just the pump as it did not work for what I needed it to do (as I breast-fed exclusively and needed more 'power'.).
The soft "Nuby" cups are great. We use stainless steel sippy cups from Kleen Kanteen with a hard spout. Our daughter did really well with both types.
The best thing to do is get both types (hard and soft) and see which works best for you.
D.; i like the rubber sippy cups only cause it wont bump thier little teeth and hurt them, but hey sounds like you are doing a great job, keep up the good work, D. s
For sippy cups we went straight to the straw cups. There are several articles out there, and I believe i read in both baby talk, and parenting, how the straw cups are better for the kids. When you think about the sounds you make the "th" sound is not a common sound, but the regular sippy cups has the kids make their mouth have the shape for the "th" sound. Where the straw helps them keep their tongue back, as you will keep it back for the majority of speech.
I have heard as well, that using the straw will help devleop the speech earlier, and they wont' have as difficult of a time making words. i dont know if that's true or not. My daughter is 20 months, and speaks quite well compared to others at her age, but i cant say if that was becuse of the sippy cup or not.
