Tell me about introducing cups

lisamm1 · April 2009

Now that Macy is just about 6 months old, I'm wondering how we should be introducing cups to her. I've been giving her a cup when we feed her solids and just letting her take a sip of water out of it here and there.

How did you all introduce sippy cups? When did you start giving your DC a cup? What did you put in the cups (BM, water, watered down juice, etc.)? TIA!

Also, when did you introduce puffs? Before or after teeth? We are still with no teeth.

KristenBtobe · April 2009

We only offer water to Maggie in her cup at meal times. I tried breastmilk once and she was all like, "what are you doing??" so we haven't pushed that. :-) I've only offered watered down juice if she hasn't pooped in a few days.

We started puffs once she seemed to be okay with eating off the spoon and I thought she was sort of ready to chew, probably around 8 months? The teeth really don't make a difference, Maggie eats table food now with her two meager front bottom teethers. Stick out tongue

steve&heather · April 2009

The gerber puffs dissolve, so the kids don't necessarily need teeth to eat them but I'd wait a little longer before trying them on DC (until 8 or 9 months old?).

We just started offering DD water and formula in sippy cups (the nubby ones so she was still using something similar to a bottle). She was totally off the bottle and into sippy cups by 12 months--our pedi was amazed, as were we.

MrsMoher · April 2009

We used sippy cups anytime he ate solids. That way he was used to it. For us it was a very easy transition and within a week of his 1st birthday we had him completely off bottles. One suggestion to start the transition that worked for us, get the nuby soft spout sippy cups (they have them for a buck at Wal-Mart), because they are so similar to bottles, we had NO issues and no fighting. He just loved them. We did put his formula in them too and he did great with it. I also vote for giving them a sippy cup as early as 6 months as possible, because they learn so much better earlier before they get toddler angst... he he !

hav2run · April 2009

We give DD a sippy cup with water in it at her evening meal, after she is done with her solids. We have been doing it since around 6 months old. She still does not tip it up all the way when it starts to get empty, so we use a small cup and fill it up all the way. We love the nuby soft spout cups. We started puffs at 5.5 months. She loves them. She had bottom teeth, but I would have felt ok with starting them without teeth. They dissolve easily, and are great for teaching them the chewing motion. We added MumMums and Gerber Wheels at 7.5 months, and Cheerios this week.

jerseygirl81 · April 2009

We started giving him the sippy cup to practice with around 6 months, but he just got the hang of it about 2 weeks ago. We've only put in water and watered-down juice so far, I want to wait until he's a little more proficient before I put EBM in it, so there's no pouring it down the drain

We started puffs just after 6 months. He had 2 teeth by then, but we probably wouldn't have waited for teeth.

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