Juice & Milk: Infant, The First Years
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Transition from Bottle to Sippy Cup
Asked by K.B. from Memphis
on July 22, 2007
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Hi,
My daughter will be one next week and her daycare is harping on me to get her off the bottle and on to a sippy cup so she can advance to the toddler room. I'm ...
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- When my son was almost one I bought him the Nuby sippy cup from Wal-Mart. I had tried using other sippy cups that had hard tops but he just couldn't get the hang of it...
- Just give it time! I found the Avent bottles worked well cause it was the same bottle she was use to, but had a different nipple on the top which is a soft sippy cup ...
- K. - You are the Mom! We get enough of feeling that we are not doing the right thing, at the right time. You are paying them to keep your child - not to tell you how...
Good Sippy Cups
Asked by A.B. from Dallas
on May 7, 2007
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Can you all give me an suggestions on a good sippy cup for my 11 month old? We have been trying for weeks to get him to drink from a sippy cup and he refuses to do so...
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- My son wouldn't use a sippy cup either but he will use the Nuby cups with the silicone straws.
- I feel for you completely, my 11 month old is the same way. He actually does really well with a straw. Try to see if you can teach him how to drink from a straw, and...
- Hey A., We use those sippy cups that have the heads on them. ie. The ones that have "Barney" "Curious George" "Bob the Builder" They are in the juice isle with app...
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'...
How Do I Switch My Son to a Sippy Cup/
Asked by A.S. from Las Vegas
on January 9, 2008
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Hello. My son is 15 months old and WILL NOT take a sippy. I have bought just about every type I can and he will refuse all of them. He will take the Nuby one for a ...
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- Sippy Sippy Sippy I know it sounds dumb but it helped me so much.. Make a song.. big celebrations with the few sips... a game he will see your excitement and do it aga...
- My son had a hard time with the sippy cup also. The first thing I tried was removing the little rubber stopper that controls the flow. I found he got mad at the cup ...
- My middle daugher was the same way. At her 18 month appointment her pediatrician suggested I start diluting the milk in her bottle and giving her the whole milk in th...
Recommendation for Sippy Cups That Don't Spill...
Asked by M.F. from Chicago
on January 22, 2009
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Anyone have any recommendations for sippy cups that wont spill when held upside down? My son always takes his cup and shakes it upside down depositing milk everywhere!...
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- We like the First years cups. They don't leak, and they don't have a separate valve that can fall out. That also makes them very easy to clean- no little grooves to ...
- M. Ive found the First Years sippy cups to be a god send! They come with minnie and princesses for my daughter & cars for boys. I love them because the valve is bu...
- Playtex insulator cups work pretty well. I am currently using them on my second. I believe you can also buy just the stoppers for when they wear out but I haven't had ...
Recommendation for Sippy Cups
Asked by C.W. from Washington DC
on April 14, 2008
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Does anyone know of a good sippy cup? I have tried several varieties and they all seem to leak all over the place, which defeats the purpose. My son is a little rough...
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- I've tried many plastic sippy cups. Our favorite are The First Years by Learning Curve cups. They are well insulated and have not separate valve piece to keep up with ...
- Hello! I've had great luck with the Thermos Foogo sippy cup - they sell it at Lullaby Lu in Shepherdstown or you can get it online - just google Foogo. It is stain...
- I highly recommend any of the Munchkin line of cups... http://www.munchkin.com/products/detail.html?section=prodCategories&ID=10021&pID=1094 in perticular...my daugh...
Seeking Sippy Cup
Asked by M.H. from Huntington
on May 16, 2008
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Hello! My baby girl is 7 1/2 months old. We've been trying to teach her to drink from a sippy cup for over a month. Unfortunately, she just hasn't gotten it yet! S...
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- I have started all my kids out on the disposable kind. I think by The First Years, you can get at Wal-Mart. They seem to be the easiest to get started on.
- She may still be a little young. Give her time, she'll get it. I don't know too many 7 1/2 month olds that can drink from a sippy cup. They usually can do better ar...
- the playtex cups with the hard spout are great and easy to dring from. trust me i have tried them myself. when she gets bigger playtex makes a big kids sippy cup and t...
No Bottle, No Sippy Cup, What Did You Do?
Asked by R.S. from Chicago
on March 21, 2010
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Anyone else out there have a baby who refused a bottle and pushes away the sippy cup? When did it change? Our 8 month old took a bottle for the first 3 weeks of her li...
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- The suggestion about the tiny dixie cups is a good one as is the one about Playtex straw cups, but she will need a lot of help at beginning. Don't worry she will be d...
- My daughter was 12 months old when I went back to work. Up until that point I had nursed her and never bothered with bottles. Once I went to work I gave the babysitt...
- I wouldn 't suggest you continue to use a cup--at 8 months old she runs a risk of aspirating liquids that are presented too fast--getting it in her lungs. She is set u...
Sippy Cup Problems
Asked by P.N. from New York
on February 6, 2007
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Hello everybody! I have a almost 1 year old baby who refuses to drink from a sippy cup. I have tried many different brands (avent, gerber, playtex, NUK) but my baby do...
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- i agree with the trowing out of the bottles....but you keep one and after he finishes it you discretly take it away and clean it and cut the tip off of a clean nipple ...
- Hello P., Not sure why you started to get him off the bottle at such an early age, doctors recommend not even to feed babies human food until six months of age. Anywa...
- I just needed to say that you shouldn't feel bad about wanting to wean him off a bottle at a "young age". My daughter was weened at 6 months to a nuby cup (as a few ot...
Baby Doesn't like Milk
Asked by J.W. from Sacramento
on August 28, 2008
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My boy is almost a year old and this week I introduced cow's whole milk into his diet. I am trying to wean him and he never had an ounce of formula before. Every time ...
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- Hi J., Children are smart. There is a reason why he does not like it. Do not force him to drink it if he does not like it. Try giving him hemp milk or rice...
- My pediatrician told me to hold off on cow's milk until about 15 months or so and go with breast milk until then. Another option is goat's milk, which my sister tried...
- My baby girl had nothing, but breast milk until she was 15-months old. When she turned 1 year I tried and tired to give her cow’s milk, soy milk, almond mil, but she...
