I had the same problem with the nuby cups as you did. We use the gerber sippy cups that change color with temperature and tall, slender playtex cups. We have had the same ones for 2 years now and they still don’t leak. We love those two brands and they have been well used! Good luck!
I agree about the Nubbys, they leak! I used the Playtex soft spout sippys with the handles to transition my daughter. My son went straight from the bottle to hard spouts, but she needed soft for quite a while.
Hi! My son, 11 mos. old drinks primarily from a Nuk brand “orthodontic” cup. It has handles which can be removed to promote drinking with a regular cup and the part where the mouth goes is soft and rectangular in shape. It doesn’t leak at ALL. It’s an awesome cup. We bought it at WalMart for about $5.00 or so. He prefers it to any other cup we’ve offered (won’t hardly touch the others, and when he does, he makes a mess) and he has even used it to go down for a nap. Good luck!
I’m in the same boat as you and have decided to try different ones and the best I’ve found so far are any of the Playtex ones because I never have a problem with them leaking and my daughter has no problem drinking from them. I especially like the insulated ones.
Make your life easy - stick to the ones she already uses, and likes.
We like the Take and Toss cups and have been using them since my son weaned from nursing (I had nursed him for a year). They can be found at Target, Babies R Us, and Walmart and are fairly inexpensive that they can be tossed and replaced as time goes on.
Hi Cheri,
As an early interventions teacher I have a favorite sippy cup that I try to get all my families to use. It is called the “Coolster Tumbler” and I love it because the child has to use the exact same lip closure as what they would use on an open cup, which is important for speech. You don’t want the sippy cup to have a soft nipple, or encourage sucking similar to what is done with a bottle or breast, you want it to teach sipping. The preferred cup does come with a graduated stopper inside, one flows slowly, and one flows freely. I usually toss the stopper and use the top naked. It will leak that way, if turned upside down, but that is the point, to teach controlling the liquid by sipping, and tilting the cup gently. The stopper is OK for starting tho. and good for transporting the cup so it won’t leak. One thing I don’t like about the cup is that it is huge, but the lid fits on many other brands of sippy cup, so you can use it on a two handled one if that is what your child needs, or a smaller cup if she has little hands, etc.The lid has a small hole, and is recessed, so that the upper lip is not on the cup lid. You’ll see when you find it. It is at Target somethimes, or Walmart, but you can always find it at Babies R Us. It is expensive, costs about 4.99 for one and 7 or 8.99 for two, but it is worth it if it gets the little mouth ready for speech. Good luck.
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Get the new ones by First Years…It’s at target and babies r us. it has a har tip spout but the center is like a nuby…so they can’t bite it and make it leak. Plus no inside parts to take off and scrub sour milk out of.
Playtex. When they start to leak buy replacement valves.
What’ s the rush? 14 months is so young why not let her enjoy her bottle for a little longer? I am a mother of 3 very successful young adults who enjoyed their bottles well after their second birthday. The only rule I made after the second birthday was that you don’t walk around with the bottle all day long. You can have it when you wake up or when you are tired but in one place and when you are done you put the bottle on a chair next the kitchen counter (since they could not reach the counter at that age), or give it to mommy.
Thank you moms for all the wonderful advice, suggestions and recommendations. No more bottles! I returned the leaky Nubby ones and got it replaced. We bought a couple of others - Playtex and the tumblers. She likes them all but prefers the Nubby for her milk and learned to “sip-suck” with it, similar to what she was doing with her bottle. We’re also trying the tumbler and the lil one is pretty receptive to that too (never did think about the speech associations). Thanks everyone and have a wonderful weekend.