For those using straw sippies

KK2004 · March 2011

How did you teach LO to get something out of it? Please tell me which one you use if it's spill proof. What age was LO when they started using it?

homebird · March 2011

She only wanted to chew on the straw for the longest time. A few days ago we were out and I left her sippy at home. We got a juice box (I know, it's not good for her, but we were desperate) and I just squeezed a little of the juice into her mouth. Once she realized that drink came through the straw she started sucking and that was it.

We went out and bought a straw sippy the next day and she loves drinking water/milk out of it. We use playtex sippy cups:

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Dreamsicle23 · March 2011

I've used both the Playtex and Nuby ones. They leak a tiny bit if left on their side but not too bad. I have no advice on how to teach LO to use it. I just offered it a few times when he was only about 5 months old and miraculously he started sucking away.

ceceandme222 · March 2011

I use the same one as homebird, DD loves it. She just caught on one day. Those playtex ones squirt a little liquid out when you squeeze it, so you can show them what is inside and give them incentive to try.

FWIW, I tried about 10 different sippys without straws before one day she just started using a straw at a restaurant. Once she did that, I went out and bought a bunch of those (we had one but she had never used it correctly).

WildcatPrincess · March 2011

We had no luck with a regular sippy, so we offered a straw and she got it immediately, we didn't have to do anything. That was about 2 months ago. We don't use spill proof ones, so I'm not help! I found they're more difficult to get stuff out of and she only has them with or after meals supervised.

g8trkim · March 2011

We have this one https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=10812771&searchURL=false and we love it. When he chucks it across the room it dribbles a tiny bit but considering the abuse I don't think that's bad. He didn't like regular sippy cups. He figured out the straw sippy pretty immediately and now he's really good at it.

edingse · March 2011

We use this one: https://www.bfkidsonline.com/new-nuby-8oz-sippy-cup-flip-top-straw-gripper-w-handl.html

DS seems to really like it and actually gets stuff out of it. It doesn't leak anymore than any of the other cups we have tried. I do like the straw cups better than the other sippy cups because you can close the straw up in it, it keeps the part clean that goes in childs mouth.

The way we taught him to drink out of a cup was we went to a restaurant and let him practice drinking out of a straw in a cup. He got it immediatel and now drinks from his sippy straw cup. He started this at about 7 months.

klaceyblair · March 2011

we used the munchkin straw sippies and he pretty much got it right when we gave it to him. we started using it about a month ago. from what we expierenced it doesnt spill.

shirls · March 2011

Dreamsicle23:
I've used both the Playtex and Nuby ones. They leak a tiny bit if left on their side but not too bad. I have no advice on how to teach LO to use it. I just offered it a few times when he was only about 5 months old and miraculously he started sucking away.

This except DS was 7 months old. He uses the Nuby ones too. I think sucking up liquid through a straw is easier to learn than using the sippy.

lite-bright · March 2011

DD1 didn't learn until after a year. Eventually, with a lot of trial and error, she picked it up.

DD2 has been using straw sippies for a couple of months, because she watched her big sister using them and started stealing them.

We use the Munchkin flip-top sippies with the silicon straws.

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