My son is nine months and I have trying for awhile to get him to drink from a sippy cup. He CAN drink from it and was drinking water and juice from until I tried to give him formula in it. I am still breastfeeding but at dinner I give him formula and I would like him to drink the formula in the sippy cup before I ween him completly. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or a sippy cup that works best.
We use The First Years take and toss sippy cups. My son had a real tough time using the cups with the valve (the non-spill kind). These cups don't have the valves but aren't too messy when spilled. They were a lot easier for him to get the liquid out because they are less work than the ones with the valves.
I put an ice cube in the sippy cup with the formula, my daughter loved it!
Good Luck!
I have the same problem with my son who will be 1 in two weeks. He has been drinking juice from the sippy cup for a few months and has no problem, but he absolutely refuses to drink any breastmilk out of the cup. I was hoping the once I start to wean him and give him milk in a few weeks he would drink that from the cup. I also wanted him to be able to get used to the cup for milk before weaning him so there wasn't so much change at one time. We have tried the playtex and gerber cups and it none of them work for us. We're just going to keep trying to give him breastmilk in the cup if I'm not home for now and hopefully he will take it! I wish I could tell you something more helpful, good luck!
Hi S.:
The problem might be the formula and not the sippy cup. All four of my breastfed babies couldn't stand the stuff and we never had any luck getting them to take it (or even breastmilk from a bottle, for that matter). I'm trying to think back, but for my kids, 9 months was a bit early on getting them to take a sippy cup, but when I introduced it to them, I usually removed the valve - it's a bit messy, but if they're not used to it (or to a bottle) it seemed to help. Eventually we'd be able to put the valve in - but that's if they Wanted what was in the sippy cup.
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I think its normal for a 9 month old to still need some help with the sippy cup. Give it some time. Good luck!
The type that worked best for my kids at that age were the ones (the brand I used was Gerber)that have the handles and a softer silicone tip/ nipple. Just a suggestion - I would stay away from the juice, especially while he's on formula and transitioning to a tippy cup.
I also found this site that gives some tips. http://www.babycenter.com/refcap/baby/babygear/1439508.html
Hope that's helpful.
My kids preferred a regular cup to a sippy, I use small plastic ones. Once they were able to drink from it, they were glad to use a sippy in the car or on the go. Good luck!!
Have you checked that the formula can get out of the sippy cup lip? It may be too thick.
My kids are a little older, and they drink a number of things from sippy cups, but they can't drink the smoothies I make because it simply won't come out the slit/holes.
Try drinking some formula from it yourself to check how hard it is to get it to come out.
Is there a strong reason why you wanted to stop giving him a bottle this early? If he still has some sucking/nursing needs, it may be more about the motion and mouth feeling than what's in the cup.
