How did you teach LO to drink out of a straw?

ZTACRYSTAL · November 2010

DD is wanting to drink out of a straw but can't figure it out. She gets so frustrated and she starts crying! I have tried to show her by kind of modeling it for her. I feel like she should be able to do this by now. I tried the take and toss straw cups and the Nuby flip top one. Is there another cup to try? Which ones are best? How did your LO learn to drink out of a straw? Or how did you teach them? TIA!

rosesandpeonies · November 2010

I first taught her how to drink straight out of a regular cup to teach her how to drink in fluid out of something different than the bottle. I introduced her to the straw with a regular straw. Some of the sippy straws have valves that take a lot more force to suck it out...so i had her practice with the regular straw first and then eventually I introduced sippy cup straws. Let her practice with a regular straw first. Also, try out her sippy cup straws....and you will see how difficult it can be. I had to make bigger slits in some of the sippy cup straws because they were just so hard to suck out of.

lynsef · November 2010

It sort of happened by accident. When DD was 10 months old we were on vacation and were walking around in this quaint little town looking at the shops when we decided to get some lunch. Of course I had forgotten her sippy cup in the car, which was several blocks away. So I gave her a sip from my water with the straw and she took to it right away.

lynsef · November 2010

She uses the Nuby flip top one.

MeghanF13 · November 2010

we never used bottles, but when we were ready to introduce something out other than breast milk, we started with a regular straw. We then moved to the ones with the valve (but the valve cracks so we stopped using). Then we moved to the regular straw cups (Playtex I think?) and now we use either the regular straw cups or the Rubbemaid Litterless Drinkboxes.

jl_nc · November 2010

I first introduced her to the straw by taking whatever she was drinking out of her cup with a straw with my finger plugged over the top and let her suck on the straw and get little bits out. After a few days, she got a juice box at er gma's and we showed her how they work by squeezing on the box a little while she sucked on it. she caught on in a matter of minutes and we haven't looked back! we skipped over sippies all together.

1happygurl · November 2010

jl_nc:
I first introduced her to the straw by taking whatever she was drinking out of her cup with a straw with my finger plugged over the top and let her suck on the straw and get little bits out. After a few days, she got a juice box at er gma's and we showed her how they work by squeezing on the box a little while she sucked on it. she caught on in a matter of minutes and we haven't looked back! we skipped over sippies all together.

we tried this, but he didn't get it. One day I squirt some juice up from a juice box into his mouth when his lips were around it, and voila! He got it!

TSD · November 2010

I started training him with the honey bear straw cup at 6 mo. It took him a month to "get it". Then I just kept offering to him in between bottles. The honey bear comes with "instructions" on how to teach. Once he really got it I started using Munchkin Mighty Grip straw cups.

Honey bear- https://www.talktools.net/s.nl/it.A/id.771/.f

cphillips1021 · November 2010

Chocolate Milk with a regular straw. First, I put some in the straw, capped my finger over it, and let some go into her mouth so she knew that milk was in there. Then, when she realized it was something she liked, I put some in the straw and she would suck it out. Then, put straw in cup, she sucked. I hope I explained that well enough. Good luck!

mielkede · November 2010

We gave DD a straw at 6 months in a regular cup as she needed a little juice for constipation and our doc said no juice in a bottle ever so we tried it and she took off. It is the same sucking motion as the bottle so it was easy for her to get. We then got her the tommee tippee (spelled wrong) cups. They are super easy and do not require the extra force that some straw cups do.

Courtney&Jason · November 2010

We were out to lunch one day and I forgot her sippy. All they had was milk in those juice box type containers. I squeezed it a little bit while the straw was in her mouth. It only took about two times and she got it.

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