sippy cup??

mrizz

when should a child be using one and for what, formula or juice/water??

IckyThump

My pedi told us to start the sippy with solids. DS had a little trouble adjusting to the solids at 6 months, so we're probably going to start the sippy this week. You should start off with water - if DC seems to be resisting the sippy after a week or so, you can give them diluted juice. You're not supposed to put breast milk or formula in the cup.

SuperCuteBenz

We started offering it around 4 months.

We don't do juice (unless for constipation), so I only put water in it. I take that back. I put formula in it twice, because I thought maybe she would like it more but it didn't work. So, now we only put water in it.

DD is 11 months old, and she still rarely uses her. She just loves the bottle. I am starting to get worried, but I am not going to push her into using it.

squishysgal

We started with the sippy at 5 months. She wasn't at all interested in it until about 3 weeks ago. We only put water in it. She doesn't really "drink" from it yet, just little sips.

cess525

I must be the only mom that puts Formula in a sippy.  I started giving her a sippy to play with (water) at 6 months.  Around 8 months she refused to take a bottle in the morning but she needed the formula so I put it in a sippy and we have never looked back.  Now at 10 months she has anywhere from 1 - 3 sippys of formula a day at meals (if she gets hungry before a meal she has a bottle and just water at that meal) and she has 1 sippy of water that she has with her at all times:P.  DD has never had juice as the doctor said it makes them not want to eat fruit.  Being that none of her cousins will eat their fruit but drink juice and DD loves fruit I am not going to risk it:P

MrsSoapbox

We put formula in the sippy cup too.  Our pedi recommended we put formula in the sippy so DD wouldn't associate formula/milk with the bottle and water/juice with the sippy.  We started offering Hadley the sippy cup at 6 months, but I think it'll be a while before she really figures it out...so far she just likes to chew on the handles.