Sippy Cups: The First Years
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Sippy Cups
Asked by V.W. from Nashville
on May 20, 2007
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What sippy cups do you use? I've tried 3 kinds and she just wants to chew on them instead of drink.
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- Eric loves the Nuby sippys, the ones without that second piece in the top, and the ones with. The ones I got were .97 cents at wal mart
- Since I am a "lazy" mom...and was tired of fussing with stoppers and flow pcs and different apperati that comes with different sippy cups and keeping them all organize...
- I tried many, many different kinds of cups. She might be having a hard time drinking from the cup because of the no-spill lid. My daughter will only drink out of the t...
Sippy Cups
Asked by K.E. from New York
on March 13, 2008
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After reading the question about stopping the playing of games with a sippy cup...that reminded me of my question: Is there a straw-based cup that doesn't leak? I've...
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- On a whim, I bought a cup with a straw of a sort made into it at Walmart for my daughter (22 months)yesterday. It was a cheap cup shaped like an animal where the stra...
- I have a set of cups from tupperware that use a regular straw. They ar not leak proof - but they are the best I have found. They only leak if totally upside down or ...
- This is not so much finding things as finding out things. My sister has a friend who is a speach therapist. she said that sippy cups were not good for children as th...
Sippy Cups?
Asked by S.J. from Jackson
on April 27, 2007
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Hi! My daughter is now 10 months old and yet to drink from a sippy cup. I have been trying off an on to get her to use one since she was about 6 months old. My cabinet...
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- In my situation, my daughter just finally figured it out. We would show her by doing it ourselves. After a while she just got it and now she's almost 13 months old a...
- This might sound crazy but I taught my b/g twins to drink from actual cups starting at about 5 1/2 months. It was frustrating, but with two, I didn't want to be unabl...
- My daughter was the same way. I actually started letting her drink out of a regular cup. Learning to sip out of a big cup kind of taught her to use the sippy. I also...
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...
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...
Sippy Cups
Asked by A.L. from Clarksville
on July 30, 2008
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I have a 6 month old baby girl. I know about this age introducing sippy cups is good. But which one is the best, when she was born I breastfed her. After she learned t...
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- I found that when going to a sippy cup that the pop-up straw cups worked best for my son, he never liked sippy cups because they seemed more like a bottle because he s...
- My daughter loves her bottles but has easily taken up using the sippy cups with the straws - I think it the nuby brand. They are spill proof and have handles on each ...
- My son uses the Playtex sippy cups and he has done great with them. As far as nipples go, I don't know what kind of bottles you use, but we use the Playtex Drop-I...
Sippy Cups!
Asked by A.H. from Cleveland
on February 12, 2007
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hello everyone! i have a nine month old baby girl and im afraid im not doing something right. she doesnt hold her own sippy cups up to her mouth, on her own, and i don...
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- A., First of all congrats on your engagement! About the sippy, your daughter is still young, this is a learning phase for her. She is very used to having everything ...
- Does she hold her own bottle yet? I didn't start my son on sippy cups till he was close to a year old. And he still wasn't sure of them. Don't push the issue, she's st...
- Hi- I found sippy cups from Gerber that were a little smaller than the standard and angled at the top I think they are called sipsters I have had a little bit of a ha...
Which Sippy Cup?
Asked by C.M. from New York
on December 29, 2007
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Hi, my son has been using the sippy cups with the rubbery straws. It's very hard to find replacement straws for these and I always wind up buying a whole new cup inst...
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- overall, a straw cup is better for your child's teeth. sippy cups are easier to drink from (at least for my kid - and we used the cheapie ones from first years or the...
- I would stick to the straw cups. It's better for the teeth and language, and you would have to eventually transition from a sippy, so it's better to stick with a straw...
- I have been told the straw ones are much better for kids- the straw helps children develop better muscles for speech and the straw keeps liquids away from teeth so muc...
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 H.C. from Hartford
on November 1, 2010
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I'm searching for a sippy cup that doesn't leak. I've bought a wide variety, some cheap disposable and some expensive, but I have yet to find a sippy cup that doesn't...
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- Love the Nuk starter cup...dont know how old your baby is but I love this one!
- Nalgene makes a water bottle with a sippy cup top, which are great. I think we got them at Target. They have not leaked yet, even when my daughter brings it to bed wi...
- I second the munchkin ones with the straw. I don't have the insulated ones Stephanie B mentioned, just regular ones and they are virtually leak proof even when the str...
