Bottles & Sippies: The First Years
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Bottle to Sippy Cup
Asked by C.D. from Phoenix
on October 14, 2007
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Hello!
I am looking for some tips and tricks to transitioning from the bottle to the sippy cup. My 16 month old is extremely attached to his bottle and it has been...
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- You might wanna try NUBBY. My son liked those at first then we moved on the other sippy cups with the hard plastic.Good Luck! C.
- Well my daughter was really attached to her bottle too and what I ended up doing was switiching from the bottle to a sippy cup with a softer nipple like the bottle the...
- Maybe you could take him to the store to pick out his own special cups, so that he is really excited about them and wants to use them???
Stage 3 Bottle to Replace First Years' Breastflow?
Asked by E.A. from Atlanta
on August 8, 2010
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We've been using the First Years' Breastflow nipples and bottles and have just realized that we need to head into stage 3 (right?). When we've tried other bottles in ...
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- We just continued to use the breastflow nipples and bottles until he was on a sippy cup they were also the only bottle that our youngest would take.
- If he's OK with the flow, leave it? I say this as you mention "recently weaned" and might get gassy with time and formula/food combo (both mine did a bit) and leaving ...
- Why do you need to change? My daughter took breastmilk in the same stage one nipples from 10 weeks until I weaned her from the bottle at a year old. I am sure the flow...
Switching from Formuls(bottle) to Milk(sippy Cup)
Asked by J.T. from Charlotte
on June 16, 2008
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OK, HELP PLEASE!
My almost one year old is having a real hard time giving up her bottle. She doesn't transition very well and we had a big issue at 5 mo going from ...
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- My son wasn't completely weaned from the bottle until he was 13 months (he's 16 months now). What we did was put some milk in the sippy cup and gave him the sippy cup ...
- hey jennifer! there is a book called the baby whisperer solves all your problems! it is a wonderful book! alot of my friends and i use her methods and techniques fo...
- I had the same issue with my son when we switched. How about trying a sippy cup that looks like a sports bottle? also they make some that have a lid that is soft lik...
Trying to Switch from Bottle to Sippy Cup
Asked by C.T. from Albany
on March 13, 2009
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We have been having alot of trouble getting our 1 yr old to drink from anything other than her bottle. The doctor said we need to get her off the bottle completely asa...
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- Hi my friend was having this same problem and she started leaving an empty bottle around and a full sippy cup. She started using the cup because she could get her drin...
- Hi C., You know, I think that Dr's and society tries to make babies grow up to fast these days. For decades and decades babies have been on bottles and have had fine ...
- PERSONALLY I AM WITH YOUR DAUGHTER I HATE SIPPY CUPS!!!!! Now that being said...why does she need to use one?? Give her a cup with a straw...my last 2 never used a bot...
No More Sippy Cups??!!
Asked by C.S. from Medford
on April 13, 2010
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I am SO ready to throw out the sippies! My kids are 5 and 3 (next month). I really want to get rid of them for good, but there is one problem with doing this:
My kid...
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- Can't figure out how to make this site let me review the responses you've already gotten. What I do for cups with straws is I bought some "disposable" cups with straw...
- That's funny there is another mom who is doing this too...I just got fed up with so many sippies in my cupboard! I was unable to find a regular glass unless I dug aro...
- Haven't read your other answers, but we are struggling to switch to the sippy from the bottle with my one year old. She likes to grab my travel coffee mug and try to...
Bottles to Sippy Cups
Asked by E.P. from New York
on March 29, 2009
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Any suggestions on a good "transition" sippy cup. We have been using Avent and First Years disposable cups for snack/meal times, but we are looking for a sippy cup tha...
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- The Nuby Gripper Sippy Cup was great for my son (now 3 1/2 yo) and I plan to use it for my daughter (now 9 1/2 mo). My son basically weaned himself from a bottle just ...
- I personally prefer straw cups to sippy cups since a lot of the sippy's require sooo much suction (try it yourself, you'd be amazed). Also, when you think about it, a...
- Hello there, we liked the NUBY ones since they had a softer nipple it was easier to transition. Hope that helps.
When to "End" the Sippy Cup
Asked by D.M. from Denver
on December 9, 2009
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I have a 3 yr old and 20 mo old. Both still use sippy's. She uses a big girl cup at meals, but during the day, in the car etc. a sippy. When would you recommend "en...
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- Dena, I get the biggest laugh out of this debate. Here's why. Because I hate cleaning up spilled milk/juice/water... it all is obnoxious. loL! BUT, they have to...
- *I also keep a small pile of rags (old beach towls cut into smaller squares)on a lower shelf in the pantry so the kids can clean up their own spills. All my kids will...
- I would end the sippy right now for both kids for everything but water. Juice, milk, etc can be drunk at the table with a regular cup (I started teaching my kids to dr...
Weaning from Bottle
Asked by M.M. from Atlanta
on April 5, 2007
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Nate is going to be 1 year old this weekend. I'm ready to take him off of his bottle. He has NEVER went to sleep with a bottle, so I'm thinking this should be fairly e...
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- Okay so that old saying that they will get thirsty enough and just start drinking from it. Intirely not true. My son almost got dehydrated because I kept thinking th...
- M., I am a mother of multiples. I took my boys off the bottle cold turkey. I introduced the sippy cup at around eight to nine months. The day that they turned a yea...
- M., Since your child doesn't take a bottle at night and is accustomed to sippy cups already, then going cold turkey probably won't be that big of a change (ie pr...
Sippy Cup Help!
Asked by L.V. from New York
on April 8, 2010
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Hi- my 11 month old daughter absolutely refuses to drink from a sippy cup. I have heard you are supposed to go "cold turkey" and not give them their bottle and eventu...
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- I love it ....finally a kid refusing to drink from a darn sippy cup. Take the sippy part off , stick a straw in and teach her to drink that way.
- I had to go cold turkey with both my boys - took a few days, but it worked (and no, they didn't get dehydrated). The other option is to skip the sippy and go straight ...
- Neither of my kids liked sippy cups before we simply took the bottles out of the equation on their first birthdays. Both transitioned without a single problem. We'...
Getting off the Bottle
Asked by S.E. from Cleveland
on April 3, 2008
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Here is the long of it. My son started accepting a bottle at 3 months, weened from the breast to the bottle at 8 months.
He just turned one. He can drink from a...
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- Have him throw a bottle in the trash and make sure that the rest of the bottles are gone so he doesn't see any of them. When he throws it in the trash, then tell him ...
- I had the same problem with my daughter. She did great with a sippie of water, but if I put milk in it, she would throw it across the room! On a Thursday morning, I ta...
- This is very similiar to what my daughter did and I can tell you that I just decided one day that it just wasn't that important that she drink milk from a cup. She to...
