EBFing mamas and sippy cups

travnicek

What do you put in your baby's sippy cup to drink? I am EBF-ing my daughter, and stay home with my children, so I don't have a need to pump milk. As my daughter begins to learn how to use a sippy cup, I am confused about what I should be filling it with; water? juice? Should I be pumping so that she can practice drinking from the sippy cup with milk???? 

 

kalette

Water is fine. My LO loves her water! LOVES! She drinks it all the time and requests it whenever she see's a cup.

SteelCity44

We started with water. At his 9 month appointment, we were given the go ahead to offer wcm, so we've mostly been offering that. Now that he's getting better at it, we might start doing water during the day and wcm at dinner. One of the few things we were told not to offer was juice.

thechickencoop

We do water here also.  I SAH too and don't really pump so it was either water, formula, or juice.  Our pedi did ok juice if we wanted, but there's really no reason to introduce it (I'm sure he'll get plenty of it when he's older!).  It took Shawn a while but, like pp said, he looooves water now.  He does really well with the sippy and the straw cups and we're working on a regular cup, so water just means less mess!

greeneyed_bride

I give DS water after every meal now, and I will periodically offer it to him through the day, too.

When he was first learning to use a sippy cup and wasn't too sure that he was interested in it, I gave him Gerber Yogurt Juice for babies (it's banana flavored and is in the baby food section of the store.) He liked the taste, so he was willing to work to figure out how to get it. Once he was able to drink from a cup well, I switched to only giving him water.

Peepp79

My LO guzzles water like it's going out of style. I always have to take the sippy cup away after a while bc I don't want her filling up on the water. I'm glad she loves it so much.

nunzchucks

Peepp79:

My LO guzzles water like it's going out of style. I always have to take the sippy cup away after a while bc I don't want her filling up on the water. I'm glad she loves it so much.

This.  Also, our pedi said no juice.  Their opinion is that is has no nutritional value. 

bpv101283

Water. Also I sometimes juice pears and apples and do half juice/half water. A juiced pear is sooooo sweet.

Hoffmania

We only offer water right now. We're trying to avoid juice for now. I think I may add whole milk when we get the OK to start that and then use that when we're ready to ween off me and bottle of bm.

I am Marla Singer

I put ice water in her sippy. She gets it with meals. I'm not a juice fan, since i think it's pointless calories- but that's a personal choice. I may switch over to BM in a sippy once she's a year old- but that's only because I have a ton of BM in the freezer- so I'll do that til I run out then switch to WCM, and will also continue BF when I'm Home.

Irishgingersnap

My DS didn't like water at all so I added a couple of tablespoons of Apple Juice for flavour. He started to guzzle it!  I gradually reduced the juice and now don't put any in at all and he sips away every meal. 

huskymomma94

Water! I really want him to get used to drinking water with meals.