Sippy Cup Q

schmoodle · March 2010

When you started sippy cups, what do you put in it? Water? Formula? Juice?

We've been trying to give him a sippy cup w/ water very sporadically since 6 mos. and he has zero interest. Today I dropped it at school with him to see if they had any luck and they said he wasn't interested because it was water. Should I try and put formula in it? I don't want to give him juice yet. I was worried he needed to learn to use it to move to the toddler class eventually at school, but today I learned they don't even use the sippys at school, they teach them to drink out of mini real cups (like shot glasses, LOL).

LucyPevensie · March 2010

I only started giving Jack juice - VERY watered down juice - recently. He always drank water out of sippy cups just fine (and still does.) I can't remember when he actually "got" sippy cups though - I do know for a long time he just used to wave them around. But once he figured it out, he thought water in a sippy was just delightful - to drink AND to try and pour out all over his high chair tray if possible.

PsychedForBaby · March 2010

We have done water in a sippy since day one of starting solids. We thought it would be a way to recognize that the sippy goes with meals. If she's had a day where she's pushed away bottles before finishing them, I might put BM into a sippy and offer it to her that way, but at this point, it's usually just water.

As far as having no interest in water, we have to pull that thing away from her. She'd chug it down if she had the chance. She also just loves to bang it on her highchair tray and make lots of noise.

skoorbnibor · March 2010

it is actually recommended that you use water and only water...

One reason is juice is nutritionally void and formula/breast milk is better avoided in a sippy, for transitioning (I do put milk in a sippy!) and so that they are actually getting the milk or formula (they more play with the sippy than drink it!)

It takes time. I think E was 11 months before he got it!

yankee42 · March 2010

same as the other ladies

we have only done water, until they started drinking WCM and dropped bottles, they get their milk in sippies now..

we started it them at about 8 months, and they didn't really get it until about a year

cjsbdl · March 2010

We started giving H a sippy cup with water in it when we started solids a couple of weeks ago. He loooooooves the water...I have to limit the amount he drinks.

I think putting formula in it would be fine, because he'll presumably start drinking whole milk out of it at some point. Otherwise, I don't think there's anything at all wrong with putting a tiny, tiny amount of juice in it just to give the water a bit of flavor.

nicolita14w · March 2010

Another vote for water here. He still doesn't really get the sippy cup, but we are trying to make the transition to sippy cup at the same time as the formula to milk transition, so now we're putting a mix of formula and WCM in it.

RoxBride · March 2010

I don't see the problem with using formula in the sippy cup.

FWIW, if baby doesn't like it, you might try a straw cup. The two advantages to a straw cup - they get to use muscles that help with them with speech skills, and the liquid bypasses the teeth.

TxJen1972 · March 2010

B loves water..loves it. So I am no help there. Does he just hate water? Like, have you given him water in a bottle to see if it's the water that is actually not appealing or if it is just the sippy cup? If it is the water...I would keep offering it to hopefully try to get him to like it. Like pp said, maybe you could add a little juice to turn him on to the sippy cup and then eventually just fade out the juice and have him drink plain water.

GL!!

keg · March 2010

We started with water, but once they got closer to a year, I wound up sending one of their formula bottles to school in a sippy cup and once they seemed to do okay with that, switched over a second, and finally just dropped the third altogether. I think I actually transitioned over to WCM still using bottles in the morning and at bedtime. I then switched morning milk to sippy and then bedtime milk until we were bottle-free (they were probably about 13 months and change when we packed all the bottles away).

ETA: I still haven't given DDs juice and am not sure when/if I will do it.

Waiting4baby08 · March 2010

Gwen has water and loves it. Have you tried different types of sippy cups? I know she is younger, but we had one with the hard spout and she was not interested at all. Once I got the Nuby with the soft silicon spouts where she has to suck on it, she LOVES it.

JGirl2005 · March 2010

we started with water and then moved to formula and milk when we could.

DS was horrible with thes sippy cup until I found one he loved. The nuby soft spout solved our sippy cup woes! A lot of people on here use it when I posted how I used that and he is good with the sippy cup now. We had all kinda even the expensive klean kanteen but he hated all the hard spouts. just a suggestion...

browneyedgrl4282 · March 2010

we actually started with water! you might want to try a different sippy cup! You have to find what works best with Toddle! It's trial and error!

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