Sippy Cup

Hi A.,

I highly recommend the Nuby cup to start. It has a soft spout that when baby bites down, a little water/whatever comes out and they get the hint thatr there's something inside. When they get the idea with the Nuby, I moved on to the Gerber cups. I just liked them better, they have oz markings so I knew how much my son was drinking and it made it easy to make formula in them. And I read the other responses, I started my son on a sippy at 4 months old. It took a little bit before he really got the hang of it, but at 8 months he was completely off the bottle. It can be done, just keep trying. Good Luck in your venture, I know it's frustrating but hang in there!

My son never took to a sippy cup. I used straw cups and regular cups and we did just fine. I'd try letting him drink from a regular cup to help him get the idea. good luck!

Use a regular sippy not a nuby at first and take out the no spill piece so it flows faster.It will obviously flow to fast but he will mentally make the connection to learn to open drink and swallow then after he mentally knows hey milk comes out of a cup switch him straight to a nuby one. Give your boy a sip here and there during meals. Once he has mastered that then see if he will do a Nuby sippy or other on his own. You could try a straw too, my daughter use to love to drink from a straw at around that age when we were at a restaurant etc.

My son loved the Take N Toss cups. They come in 4 oz. cups so they are light enough for him to work with. We tried every kind of cup and these worked best. Good luck!

Keep offering. I know this would be taboo for many moms, but I would sweeten the deal a bit by putting a little kool-aid in the water...just enough to taste. Then, reduce the kool-aid taste until it's just water. I'd also offer the water when he's REALLY thirsty, like after a tickling session, a big workout, or after a good cry. Good luck.

Just give him the cup with meals. Is he bottle fed or breastfed? If he's bottle fed, he probalby won't take to it, because its not what hes' familiar with, it has the 'wrong' nipple.

My boys both had a sippy at around 4 months old because they were breastfed and especially my youngest refused bottles. It wasn't a big deal to me since I'd rather just nurse anyway, but we did go out sometimes and obviously they needed to eat. So sippies they got, and they figured it out right away. I agree with whoeve rsaid use the handles, they both really liked the handle cups. Take the spout out at first and put him in his high chair and le thim play iwth it. Once he gets that liquid comes out of it, he'll more readily accept it. But if he's bottlefed he'll probably be more stubborn about it. :)

Good luck, and just keep offering it, put it on his high chair at meal times, keep it accessible during the day during play times, etc.

When I tryed to get my kids to use them I would a few times a day when they would normally have a bottle and were hungry for it, I would put their milk in it and lay them down in my lap that way they got use to it and within a couple weeks they got what to do and were using them very well.

When trying to get my son to take a sippy cup he didn't do well with any cup that had a stopper. And though it is more convenient for me - I knew if I wanted him to drink out of a cup I'd have to give him cups without them.

Shortly after he had a mouth full of canker sores and at ECFE we discovered his favorite type of cup were the old school cups that were around when I was a kid. I know Tupperware makes them, but you can also find them at Burlington Coat Factory and now I believe Wal-mart even sells them. They are just the solid color cups with a white or clear cover.

He is now 2 1/2 and still loves them the best.

He did also drink out of the take and toss which was a nice change now and then.

Good luck.

My pediatrician recommended the disposable sippy cups to help my daughter learn to drink from one since they do not have the tough sucking mechanism.

Good luck!

My 1st picked it up right away. My 2nd took some convincing that he could get liquid if he just sucked. I had to show him a few times. We also took the valve out a few times so that he could tell the liquid would come out. Just keep trying.

The Nuby worked well for my first son. I haven't tried that one with my second son but he uses the Avent Magic Trainer Cup. I got both of them at Target.

Have you tried the Dr. Browns Tippy cups? Those were the only kind my son would take to start out with. Now he takes any tippy cup.

Try the disposable (Take along) sippy cups that come about 3 or so to a pack. The top does not have a plug and those are the ones my kids took after trying MANY different ones. Was frustrating because after buying all those expensive ones and they prefered the cheap ones! Hope that helps.

N.

My second son didn't get really good with a sippy until he was 9 months, and then we had trouble again when I started putting milk in it. Keep trying! It'll work eventually.

I agree with people, just keep offering it to him. I have been giving my 9 month old a sippy cup with water so she will learn. At first she just bit down on it and wouldn't drink, now she drinks the water from it when she's thristy. Once she has mastered drinking water out of it I'm going to move on to milk in it, but that probably won't be for a couple of months or so. We have the gerber cups with the soft spout on them.

It may be less about the cup and more that he just doesn't get it yet. My son is 8 month-old can sip from a cup; I've seen him do it. :) But he'd rather not. Most of the time, he just tries to anoint everything. So I just give him the cup at every meal, let him take a sip or two, and when he gets bored and starts to play with it I take it away until the next time. I feel like it's more about forming the habit/routine of giving it to him at this age.

The other thing that helped us is that we use the Avent bottles, and they have those handles that go on them so Baby can hold his own bottle, or the Avent trainer cups. It seems like he has an easier time with the sippy cup idea when we use those because it's a smaller transition. Good luck!

I agree with the nuby, we had great success with that sippy cup. You can find them at Walmart or babies r us.

Just keep offering it to him and he'll eventually take to it. No need to force something when he may not be ready. I think I introduced my girls when they were 10-11 months old. You may want to try giving the bottle and slip the sippy into it's place. I found that my kids choked on the sippy because it came out too fast.

Seems a little young for him to want to and understand how it works. keep offering it and eventually he will tak to it. It takes time and patience and offering it all the time. Just like finger foods, he will eventually start taking it.
You may have to try a few different types of sippy cup with different nipples. Maybe its coming out to fast or not enough, play around with the style and type of cup.