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random q- whats the deal w/ the bottles that look like sippy cups

groovygrlgroovygrl member
in Success after IF

i mean the ones that are like colorful plastic, look kinda like a sippy style cup but tall like a bottle with a nipple on it..

I'm just wondering b/c I thought the whole thing was to eliminate the bottles after 1 or so and use sippies to eventually get them drinking out of cups but I have seen these bottles & was at a friend's this weekend & she has a 2 yr old and a whole drawer of those bottles.

Are they for bedtime bottles in older kids or for kids who don't take to sippy cups...? Just curious- not looking for any debate really but I am not exactly sure how the bottle weaning process works anyway....

Thanks! 

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Re: random q- whats the deal w/ the bottles that look like sippy cups

  • FaithRocksFaithRocks member
    I use them. It's the only thing I could use to get Trig to give up the bottle. Weaning from the bottle is a slow process for us BUT he is taking less and less bottle as time goes on. Sigh :)
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  • RoxBrideRoxBride member

    I think they are worthless.  Exchanging the bottle for anything that has something remotely nipplish defeats the point to me.

    We just went straight to straw cups when we want to avoid spills, and a regular cup at meals.

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  • LucyPevensieLucyPevensie member

    I am going to tell you a terrible secret.

    Even the sippies that don't look like the ones you are describing - are still just - well - deformed bottles.  

    Yep.  Bottles in disguise.  Especially the ones with soft spouts...

    This is why the whole "get 'em OFF the bottle by one year, milk in a sippy only!" makes me do this Confused

    Aw well.  Whatever works! 

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  • skoorbniborskoorbnibor member

    like these?

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    ::shrug:: we use them. They don't leak. He drinks out of a cup (a shot glass, actually) at dinner, but carries these around and also these: 

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    and I just bought these: 

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    I was in no hurry to get him off the bottle. He weaned himself at about 18 months from his last bottle. But I am not sacrificing my carpet with a non-spill proof cup. :) 

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  • mrsolsenk12mrsolsenk12
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    like these?

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    ::shrug:: we use them. They don't leak. He drinks out of a cup (a shot glass, actually) at dinner, but carries these around and also these: 

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    and I just bought these: 

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    I was in no hurry to get him off the bottle. He weaned himself at about 18 months from his last bottle. But I am not sacrificing my carpet with a non-spill proof cup. :) 

    Those look like straw cups to me. We have 1 straw cup but so far, Hayden won't really use it.

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  • groovygrlgroovygrl member

    I think the top picture was the bottle style & bottom one was straw cup...

    Thanks everyone! That is sort of what I figured. I know that a sippy is an altered bottle but I do think the sucking mechanism is a little different if it is not the soft kind & could help move on to a straw & hopefully regular cup, personally. Plus I think part of it is psychological for the baby (and parent maybe haha), to learn that they need to start to use more 'grown up' things?  I dont think theres anything wrong with any of htem & god knows I'll probably struggle to get mine off (except that they can't move up into the next daycare room if they're using any type of bottle & I would think that qualifies?), I guess I just didn't get why to have that other kind if you have regular 8 oz bottles from the first year. The appearance of it I guess? 

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