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Teaching to Use Sippy Cup
Asked by T.W. from New York
on October 1, 2009
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My son is just a year old. He drinks his formula or milk from a bottle. He loves water from a regular cup or water bottle, but of course this requires us to hand "feed...
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- My son also really loved a water bottle. We wound up purchasing something called the Spill-Proof Combo Pack made by The Snack Trap company http://www.onestepahead.com...
- Hi T., We had the same problem. The sippy cup that finally worked for my son was the "take and toss" by Learning Curve. They are semi-spill-proof. If it gets left...
- Take the stopper out of the sippy cup. Until he gets the hang of drinking from it. It's a different motion than a bottle, and sometimes the stopper makes it too hard...
How to get baby used to sippy cup?
Asked by T.A. from New York
on December 15, 2008
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Hi Moms,
I was wondering how you got your babies used to a sippy cup. My son is a few weeks shy of a year. It seems like I've bought every sippy cup out there. He doe...
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- My oldest started with the straw cup and went to sippy, my youngest went straight to the platex sippy, my neighbors likes gerber, but all I can say is each child likes...
- tupperware, by far the best.!!!
- I have some sippy cups with very nipple-like spouts, they don't leak, and the plastic is safe. They are from thinkbaby http://www.rightstart.com/global/store/product...
Sippy Cups
Asked by R.E. from Denver
on March 2, 2009
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Hi everyone,
My 9mo old daughter is learning how to use a sippy cup. But she seems to spill more down the front of herself then acctually drink. Right now we are N...
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- I don't know why, but I have heard it is better for their mouth development to simply use a real cup. I started doing this, holding it for them at 6 months. I only use...
- Levi loves his Stainless Steel BPA free Klean Kanteen sippy cup. http://www.modernmommygear.com/Klean_Kanteen_Kolors_12oz_Sippy_p/kksip.htm
- We LOVE the Playtex, BPA free sippy cups. They don't leak, and are very easy to clean. DD loves the characters on the cups.
17 Months Chocking on Sippy Cup
Asked by G.I. from San Francisco
on January 23, 2011
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We've introduce sippy cup when she was 10 months old. Our problem is she takes too much liquid at one time that she ends up coughing... she doesn't know her limit and ...
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- Are you using a cup with a valve? Some cups have a valve or some sort of suction tip to prevent the liquid from just pouring out. At 17 months she should have the ha...
- Are you using hard or soft top sippies?? She could be using it as a teether and then getting too much liquid. I never used the soft top ones with my girls but starte...
- G., she is teething. Shes chewing on the sippy cup making more fluid come out continuously. Try getting her a sippy cup with a hard top so she has to actually suck ou...
Sippy Cups
Asked by G.M. from Louisville
on April 17, 2008
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Has anyone heard about BAP (I think) and sippy cups. A mom at the PDO that I work at told me a little but didn't say which brands. She said she threw them all away a...
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- It is plastics 3, 6, & 7 you need to avoid. We use Sigg and Klean Kanteen sippy cups...they work great. The Klean Kanteen is my favorite...it is made of stainless st...
- Where have you been? This has been all over this site and the tv for weeks. Also Cheryl Crow attributes that to her breast cancer and is now speaking out against all...
- Bisphenol-A... we were just talking about this in one of my classes on Wednesday. Many people are switching to glass baby bottles, etc. because of chemicals. You certa...
Advice on Switching from Bottle to Sippy Cup
Asked by J.N. from Dallas
on April 21, 2008
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My daughter will turn 1 on Friday and I am having trouble getting her to drink from a sippy cup. I have tried several different kinds especially the nuby. She likes ...
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- Try the Avent cups. I tried all kinds, but when I tried that with my 9 month old, she never took a bottle again. It took one day to break her from the bottle. And y...
- have you ever tried drinking from a nuby sippy cup yourself?? its extremely difficult, and was for my daughter. we started her on the blue soft nippled playtex sippy c...
- It does take time for them to adjust, you may have to try different kinds, a lot of them are hard to suck out of (read major frustration for a 1 year old). If she lik...
Getting Baby to Use a Sippy Cup
Asked by T.S. from Philadelphia
on December 23, 2008
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Hi moms... I wanted some advice on getting my almost 10 month old son to drink from a sippy cup. He's a breastfed baby and when he was smaller, he would occasionally g...
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- With my kids I used the soft nippled playtex sippy cup with handles on the side to start off. I would give it to them very frequently with diluted juice in it and woul...
- Hi there, My daughter showed no interest in a sippy cup at 10 months. It, too, seemed to irk her. (She was bottle fed, though.) I got nervous thinking, "How am I go...
- Hi T., I also breast fed my son and he had occasional bottles until he was 6 months and refused to take one. So at that time I let him play with a Gerber sippy cup w...
Plastic Bottles and Sippy Cups a No No??
Asked by M.H. from San Francisco
on April 21, 2008
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Hi,
A good friend of mine just told me that all plastic bottles, and sippy cups are no good for your baby. That the only good kind is "Born Free" or glass bottles. ...
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- We just switched our bottles this past week brcause of BPA. There are brands other than Born Free. Here is a link to an article I found about choosing the best bottles...
- Hi M., I also heard about the concerns regarding plastic bottles and sippy cups. There are specific numbers to look for on the bottom of some plastic bottles and c...
- Hi M., Happy Earth Day! It's great that you are becoming aware of what to watch out for. Knowledge is power ~ no matter what the levels of toxins, less is better ...
Easy Sippy Cups
Asked by C.T. from San Francisco
on January 3, 2009
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My older daughter (now 4) never learned how to drink from a sippy cup, instead going straight to a straw rather easily (she could just do it one day!) My younger daug...
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- Try using a camelbak sippy straw water bottle. They're intended for adults, but my daughter has loved ours since she was 6 months old. They're now BPA-free, so no wo...
- I couldn't find a soft sippy cup that didn't leak so I started using the Take and Toss cups with handels. Not only are they cheap but they don't leak and last just as...
- Mrs. C.... I kind of had the same problem... my son just turned 3 in Dec. and I took him off the bottle at 1, tried to give him every sippy cup on the market, nothin...
Finding the Right Sippy Cup for My Almost 1 Year Old
Asked by J.C. from Casper
on August 24, 2008
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So I have been trying to get my almost 1 year old son to take a sippy cup and it's just not working. I'm just wondering if anyone has a recommendation for a sippy cup ...
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- The biggest thing I have to say is just keep introducing the cup. My twins had a hard time with it at first but after presenting it to them at 1-2 meals a day they st...
- The best cup I found was a cup made by NUBY. The entire top of the cup has a soft tip that fits in a ring that twists on the top of the cup. Unfortunately the only p...
- Try using the soft tip sippy cups. We used Nuby brand at first. With the soft tip it is sort of like a bottle, but yet they still learn how to use a sippy. Once they...
