Transition to Sippy Cup

jarbatz · March 2011

Brenna is just now starting to get the hang of the sippy cup....but I've really only been giving it to her at dinner time. How do you make the transition to using it all the time? Do you give it to them only when they're in their high chair?

And is it bad that I don't want her to give up the bottle yet?? Embarrassed Its the only time she'll lay in my arms...and I'm really going to miss that....

BrideBuddies · March 2011

If someone has the magic answer, please share.

C will drink juice or water out of a straw sippy. Milk? Forget it. I guess it's time to try the regular sippies again, but he just plays with them.

I give him a sippy in his high chair and sometimes when he's walking around and playing.

And I'm feeling a bit guilty about it, too. I love that cuddly time at night!

skh_emj_2009 · March 2011

This is my first time visiting this board, so I'm a total newbie here... but we are going through the same thing at our house. Zoey's first birthday is coming up in 2 weeks, and she still doesn't have much interest in a sippy cup. She tosses it on the floor most evenings during dinner. She does better with the straw than the spout -- but she doesn't love either of them. And I can TOTALLY relate to wanting to keep the bottle for that extra cuddle time. A co-worker & I were just discussing that very thing today at lunch!

rsd12 · March 2011

Wait, I still have to hold the sippy cup at naptime & bedtime.. man I am a sucker.. I love cuddling with the baby though. I love cuddling with all my boys even without having to hold their cups ; ) it gets so much better as they get older because they cuddle back.

Each child is different, I think a little of it has to do with when you are ready too. Owen took the sippy cup cold turkey & never went back.. Liam it took a month to transition him by offering the cup & then finally one day we stopped offering bottles. Keegan never took a bottle, so it was about a two week transition from nursing to the sippy.

NewMrs07 · March 2011

Don't feel bad, Adrian is 18 months and he still only drinks milk from a bottle. And it's the Dr Brown bottles at that, a super pain to wash but he doesn't like any other ones!

jarbatz · March 2011

NewMrs07 - I can't believe you are still dealing with those bottles! I used them up until Brenna was maybe 7 months and then I ditched them....what a royal PITA! She took to the cheap Gerber ones right away and I haven't look back! I do have a friend though whose son is 2.5 years and still drinks his milk from a bottle...I guess it'll happen when it happens...

Thanks Ladies....I have every sippy cup known to man...and the last one I bought - the playtex trainer cup - she took to right away. GL!

Piranha54 · March 2011

Liz - Look at the nuby sports sippy - they call it a straw sippy and it has the same "spout" as their straw sippy cups, but it has no straw in the cup so it must be tilted. It is so close to a bottle that I can't believe Ellie likes it since she turns up her nose at any bottle. We use it at bed time since she doesn't always like to hold it herself. Also, do you warm her milk? Originally we weren't but once we started, she immediately was draining her cups of milk in the morning and evening. It took a few weeks before she would do more than drink a few sips of cold milk but now she usually finishes most of it.

NewMrs07 · March 2011

jarbatz:
NewMrs07 - I can't believe you are still dealing with those bottles! I used them up until Brenna was maybe 7 months and then I ditched them....what a royal PITA! She took to the cheap Gerber ones right away and I haven't look back! I do have a friend though whose son is 2.5 years and still drinks his milk from a bottle...I guess it'll happen when it happens...
Thanks Ladies....I have every sippy cup known to man...and the last one I bought - the playtex trainer cup - she took to right away. GL!

Lol, I know! I have a friend who's son just turned 3 and he still drinks milk from a bottle and STILL wears diapers! I think in my friend's case, since she works full-time she can't be bothered to wean him or potty train him! I think that's a bit much, I plan on potty training Adrian after he turns 2. I tried other cheaper bottles but A won't drink from them. I guess the Dr B bottles flow better? I need to get serious and at least switch him to the easier ones to clean, meh.

NewMrs07 · March 2011

Piranha54:
Liz - Look at the nuby sports sippy - they call it a straw sippy and it has the same "spout" as their straw sippy cups, but it has no straw in the cup so it must be tilted. It is so close to a bottle that I can't believe Ellie likes it since she turns up her nose at any bottle. We use it at bed time since she doesn't always like to hold it herself. Also, do you warm her milk? Originally we weren't but once we started, she immediately was draining her cups of milk in the morning and evening. It took a few weeks before she would do more than drink a few sips of cold milk but now she usually finishes most of it.

The problem with all those sippies is that, if they're spill proof, the flow is too slow for Adrian and it's hard to suck (even I can't suck liquid from them!). He gets frustrated. He prefers to drink from the cups when the valve is not on, or from regular adult straws. The only sippy bottles that are spill proof and have a faster flow are the Tommee Tippee ones, Adrian drinks from those OK. But he won't drink the milk from them, only water/juice.

robynlesley · March 2011

All I know is that I pretty much failed on this transition.

Aaron drinks water from the Nuby Flip-n-Sip.

If it is not available, he will--under duress--take from a traditional sippy but no other straw type (as of yet). He will only drink milk from a spout sippy if *I* hold it. And thus far he won't drink juice at all.

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