Sippy Cup question

michiganwolverine99Wed120600

Can someone please explain to me the point of a sippy cup?  It seems like it's just a bottle?? It doesn't seem like a good way to transition to a regular cup because it still has a nipple like drinking part that he has to bite down and suck to get anything out of it?  Maybe it's just the sippy cup I have and I should get another one?

 I have a straw cup too and i tried testing it and it seemed hard to drink from.  who sucks that hard to get a drink??  

 Has anyone tried just going straight to a regular cup?    sorry, FTM here and I have no idea what i'm doing! 

Jeanine88

My pedi told us to skip the sippy cup for the same reasons you described. We are trying to use a straw cup, but he doesn't get the concept of it yet.  Someone yesterday suggested a straw cup that squeezes at the bottom, and I'm going to go get one of those to try.  Right now, he just chews on the straw. 

LSquared3960

I thought the same thing! I've tried several sippy cups and I just don't get how its any better than using the bottle. My friends have an 11 month old who start using the Phillips Avent Natural Cup and their son took to it really well. I think we're going to try it next. Seems like a better way for them to learn how to drink of a regular cup.  https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12123541&cagpspn=pla&pla=plab

poobear2015

Some of the soft spout sippys are more like bottles to me. But the hard top sippys are more of the "old school" ones we grew up on. DD likes her nuby ones though - so whatever works - I don't mind.

Sassy makes a "no spill" (although I doubt that to be 100% true) grow up cup that is like a regular cup. I want to get that for DD because she likes to drink out of our cups like a big girl - but every time I'm at BRU they are out of the medium size. The little one is stupid with handles (I want to get away from using handles) and the big one is HUGE and she doesn't need that.

We have the playtex straw cup and she seemed to get liquid out REALLY easy with it.

ETA: the sassy cup is equivalent to the avent one that pp suggested. I looked at those too but again - has handles - which is why I didn't want that one. Either would work for you if you wanted a "regular" cup.

Mistifier

The public health nurses where I live recommend going straight to a cup because a sippy, as you suggested, doesn't help them learn.

iluvcandy

this is totally unrelated but this is michiganwolverine....  i must've signed in with an old id...  this is my usual id!

reikotxm

we have the sippy and straw cups. DS didn't like the sippy one so we gave him the straw one and it took him a while to understand it and he gets how to get the water up. Sometimes he gets too much and sometimes he  plays with it but spitting the water out or blowing bubbles in the cup.

I've given him water through a regular cup and he understands how to drink from it when I'm controlling it.

heymommy

They really should not be called sippy cups anymore they should be called suck hard cups.

 

They use to just be a cup with a lid and a spout with holes.. no valve. If the cup tipped over it leaked.

About 15 year ago they started makeing them leakproof. They keep trying to make them better and better. So now it's out of hand. It's no longer about "teaching" the child about drinking out of a cup its just about keeping the liquid contained.

 You can get the take and toss cups, I think The First years makes them, I have seen them in wal-mart. Tupperware might still sell sippy cups too. I think they are the only ones with a spout and not valve piece. If you plan on only having your child drink at a table these are great!  If you want to be able to let your LO walk around the house or ride in the car with out worrying about spilling find a no spill cup that works for you.

 

And they really don't train at all. Its just a bridge from bottle to real cup. Once your child is 3 or 4 you put a regular cup in front of them and say, "here is your drink". They drink from it and then you can toss all the cups, lids valves lid, handles etc. in the trash !!! It's a great day when that happens. 

NM86

DS uses a sippy cup...well not really. We only put water in it and only give it to him when he is snacking in his high chair. He just bites down on it and water comes out. He enjoys spitting the water everywhere lol. He fills his mouth and then spits it all over. Kind of gross, but that's okay.

He doesn't 'drink' from it. He doesn't understand to drink the water like he does his formula from a bottle. But then again he doesn't like to drink anything but his formula. Even if we put water or baby apple juice in his bottle he will choke a little and not want it.

But he will drink out of my cup if I help him hold it.(Otherwise he will dump the contents of the cup onto his face).

NM86

 

kgwen

With my DD (who is now 4), I always gave her the take and toss cheap sippys--no valve, easy to sip and easy to clean.  But she didn't really take to it until she was 14 months old.  I tried other brands with valves, and it seems difficult to get out the liquid imo.  Yes the take and toss do leak if you turn them upside down but i just dealt with the cleanup...

I did just get DS a gerber sippy to "play with", i don't expect him to figure it out for awhile...I will probably use the take and toss with him too...

 those avent/sassy cups from the PP's look interesting though...

bikitybinx

That's quite a username, michiganwolverine haha!! You must have maxed out the character limit :-)

I use a sippy only because Natty never took a bottle and I wanted to get her to get used to drinking out of some sort of vessel.  She uses the sippy but still mainly nurses for nutrition.  I like that avent natural cup that PP posted.  I'll probably transition to something like that next, because the handles are similar to the sippy we use now. 

MollySm

I don't think of the sippy cup as a way to teach Lucia how to drink out if a cup. She practices plenty with regular cups. It's more a way to let them carry around drinks as they get bigger and not spill everywhere. Next summer when it's hot and they are running around the park, it's easier to just bring a sippy cup full if water along that won't spill everywhere.

jmccall79

I have the Avent cup, and have tried letting Ian use it a couple of times...it allowed too much liquid at once and he got choked.  We use a sippy cup, and yes it's a lot like his bottle.  He will not drink anything but milk out of his bottle.  I give him water in the sippy, and when he was sick the dr said give him pedialyte, so that went in the sippy too.  I do give him very diluted juice on occasion.  So, to give him something to drink with meals, or just because during the day, I use a sippy.  He will drink out of a cup if I offer it to him, but he obviously can't just take the cup and do it on his own.

LoveBeingMama

I can't quote from my iPad, but like PP said, it is more about mess control than training for real cups. My 2.5 year old still uses a a sippy cup but can and often does use a real cup. It just depends on the situation and how much of a mess I want to deal with. Sippies didn't delay his using a real cup either. As for the straw cups, I had some, too, and they were impossible to drink from and a pain to clean. There were other brands, but I didn't bother. Our favorite sippy cups, for those using them, are the First Years ones.I think they come in Disney princesses,Toy Story, and Cars. Cup, lid, hard spout, no crazy valves to lose. Also, I taught my older son to use a straw uy handing him a juice box at a restaurant one time. Flame away, but he was closer to one, it was 100% juice, and he didn't drink the whole thing. They are just very easy to drink from, and he figured it out easier than the straw cups.

Jen0204

poobear2015:

Some of the soft spout sippys are more like bottles to me. But the hard top sippys are more of the "old school" ones we grew up on. DD likes her nuby ones though - so whatever works - I don't mind.

Sassy makes a "no spill" (although I doubt that to be 100% true) grow up cup that is like a regular cup. I want to get that for DD because she likes to drink out of our cups like a big girl - but every time I'm at BRU they are out of the medium size. The little one is stupid with handles (I want to get away from using handles) and the big one is HUGE and she doesn't need that.

We have the playtex straw cup and she seemed to get liquid out REALLY easy with it.

ETA: the sassy cup is equivalent to the avent one that pp suggested. I looked at those too but again - has handles - which is why I didn't want that one. Either would work for you if you wanted a "regular" cup.

The grow-up cups are no spill, but they're only that way because you have to suck out of them.  It was confusing for me at first when I tried it because you tilt it like a regular cup but then have to suck out of it.  The girls seem to like it, but when I give them water out of my cup they try to suck it and end up coughing because they get too much.  

laura.noel

I realize this discussion is pretty much over, but I wanted to add that our pediatrician recommends taking the valves out of the sippy cups, so that they are more like the older kind heymommy was talking about. This has worked well for us, although he has to be very supervised with it, because he spills it everywhere ("Hey, check out this cool cup I have. See me waving around in the air, so you can see this cool cup I have!?!?!?! Wait, why am I all wet?........").