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"Seeking Help for My Toddler Transitioning to a Sippee Cup"
Asked by D.C. from New York
on July 23, 2008
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Dear Mammas,
My almost 22 month old toddler was drinking from a transitional cup (the cup that is between the bottle and a sippee cup) since he was 12 mos old. As h...
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- My daughter had a hard time going from a bottle to a sippy cup. When she was about 16 or 17 months old, I told the pediatrician I was just going to go cold turkey and...
- I have never used a sippy cup with either of my two. They never liked them. Instead we moved right to the sippy cups with straws. They loved them immediately. Hope...
- Hi D., I think that at turning 2 years old, he's really past the point of the sippy cup. I would just use a regular cup (with a straw perhaps) for meals and snacks at...
Need to Make DD Start Drinking Out of Cup!
Asked by M.R. from Chicago
on March 27, 2012
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My DD is 18 mos old now. She drinks water and juice out of her sippy cup on her own perfectly well. But she doesn't like to drink milk from the sippy cup, and still us...
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- Try the NUK cups. They have a small silicon spout...my 10 month old was protesting sippy cups for months until I tried these. He took it on the first try and I immed...
- Give her a sip at a time in a small cup. If she spills it accidentally refill it, if she spills it deliberately, drink time is over. DS liked putting his hands in ...
- have yu tried the cups with the silicon drinking spout-they're soft and nice-maybe she would think it was more like a bottle-they also don't spill out as fast. To get ...
Introducing Sippy Cup to Breastfed Babies
Asked by J.T. from St. Louis
on January 13, 2011
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I'm at a loss since I only nursed my firstborn for 4 months. We gradually replaced bottles with her formula in a sippy cup during the day and the last bottle to be we...
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- I switched my oldest over to the sippy cup instead of bottle at around 9 months after his well-visit with the pediatrician, who recommended trying it in order to be of...
- I BF my twins until they were 14 months. I started weaning them at 12 months. I never weaned to the bottle even though I would sometimes feed them breastmilk in a bo...
- I breastfed my twins until they were 15 months old (good for you - I know how challenging it is to nurse twins). I never put breastmilk into the sippy cups. I just g...
When Did You Start Training Your Baby to Drink from a Sippy Cup?
Asked by A.H. from Nashville
on January 24, 2007
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I have a little girl who will be 8 months old next week. At her last Dr. visit, our pediatrician said we could start giving her juice in a sippy cup if we wanted to. ...
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- My son will be 8 months next week. He will not drink from the Nuby sippy cups, however he will drink from a glass!!!!! If we take the lid off the sippy cup he will d...
- i gave my son the sippy cup at 6 months more just to play with and get used to..at about 8 months he was drinking out of it very well but was still taking a bottle..i ...
- My son is 8 months now and I have been training him to drink from a sippy cup for a month now and he has no trouble with drinking his formula from a bottle. He does n...
How Do I Get My Twins to Take a Sippy/straw Cup?
Asked by N.H. from Harrisburg
on April 22, 2008
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My twins will be 1 at the beginning of May and I'm actively trying to get them to take their milk from a straw/sippy cup. Whether I give them juice or milk, they only ...
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- I was going to say to do what your friend did. That is what I did with all my boys, though I took the bottle away right around their first birthday - I had already st...
- I would try the Nuby sippy cups. Their sippy part is made of the same stuff as the nipples on the bottle and their shape is also a bit similar to a nipple. It may ma...
- Hi, I agree, take the bottles away and then they'll have no choice but to use the sippy cups. I started to give my daughter a sippy around nine months. She didn't f...
18Mnth Old Needs Cup to Fall Asleep
Asked by K.L. from Chicago
on December 16, 2010
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hi mommies! my dautgher will b 18 months old the day after xmas, and everything is going well, but reaching this milstone has me concerned with her still needing to su...
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- Make sure to brush her teeth immediately in the morning when she wakes up after the milk sits on her teeth all night. I have several friends who say this is what caus...
- One of the things that concerns me about this is that the sippy cup is hard plastic. She can hurt herself sleeping with this cup. Regarding flavored water, have ...
- Try ice in her cup instead of the flavoring. My kids never really needed a bottle/paci/sippy for sleep, so I can't tell you from experience. But, there is some real...
Advice of Transitioning off Bottle to Sippy Cup- Help!!!!
Asked by D.A. from Portland
on November 29, 2007
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Help!!! My 16 month old does not want to give up his bottles for a sippy cup. We didn't have any trouble with my daughter, she just gave them up cold turkey one day- m...
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- Hi D., That is a tough one. Sometimes it is an attachment thing. My daughter was transitioned by bottle at bedtime, then no bottle and only sippy cups. I encouraged...
- I had a really hard time getting my daughter off the bottle, especially since we have a newborn cousin in the house. I finally came up with the Bottle Fairy...lol I ...
- When we transitioned our toddler girl at 12 months of age, she did not want anything to do with the sippy cup. we had to hide all her bottles from site, we picked out...
Trouble Switching from Bottle to Sippy Cup
Asked by H.E. from St. Louis
on March 11, 2009
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I have a 11 month old daughter who needs to get tubes put in her ears. The doctor said i need to have her completely off the bottle by then. She will take the sippy c...
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- I would re-evaluate getting tubes & see chiropractor if they're because of ear infections. (Just an opinion) Also, I would see why she needs to be off of the bottle t...
- When I had to start the switch from bottle to sippy cup for my daughter, it was a challenge as well. My daughter would drink from a sippy cup if it had water in it, bu...
- My son did the same thing. Water from sippy, but no milk. I finally realized that he was just trying to work us over because he drank milk from a sippy at school. H...
Need Opinions on Unhappy B-day
Asked by B.R. from Detroit
on October 6, 2008
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Recently I had a Birthday. My husband gave me a card that he could have given to one of his male buddies for their birthday (he always says that he does funny cards a...
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- I know you responded to everyone's advice already, but this thread hit home so much for me that I have to add to it. I have one of the "unromantic" husbands as well. ...
- HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY All your feelings are valid, even the ones of selfishness. But if all you're asking is for one day out the year, it's all good. After havin...
- B. ~ One of the things you should do is to schedule something for yourself, like a massage, day at the spa, some sort of pampering. Make sure you get out of the hous...
Help with Transition from Bottle to Cup for Milk Only
Asked by E.L. from Austin
on June 29, 2009
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Hi all :) I have a 14 month old daughter who drinks water, juice you name it (other than milk) out of her sippy cup and has since she was about 4-5 months old... My hu...
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- I started to anly put water in the bottle. So when she asks for a bottle she gets water. Then when she asks for milk, put in sippy cup. I used the soft tip ones from w...
- What I learned from my first daughter is that if she ain't ready - she ain't ready! :) We were so eager to see her next steps, phases, tricks, etc. that we forgot she ...
- I think I would just throw away all the bottles & tell her they all gone (if you do baby sign, then show her the empty cabinet & do the sign for 'all gone'). I think s...
