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I'm afraid my kid will never learn the sippy

FoodieMamaFoodieMama
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This is partially my fault because I probably don't give her the sippy to practice/play with often enough, but all DD really likes to do with it is chew on the spout and then bang it on the ground.  I don't think she has equated it yet with getting formula/water.

Tips to help her get the hang of it? 

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Re: I&#039;m afraid my kid will never learn the sippy

  • daenikoffredaenikoffre member
    We just have him practice, but to teach him that it is a "food thing" and not a "toy thing" I rubbed some banana on it so that he sucks on the straw instead of chews [plays with] it.
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  • FoodieMamaFoodieMama
    The banana thing is a good idea!  I am going to try it tomorrow.
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  • EmjayTheHuntedEmjayTheHunted member

    We don't use the straw kind.  We use this.

    https://www.playtexbaby.com/CupsMealtime/The-First-Sipster-Cup

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  • CelticWifeCelticWife member

    I will pass on something a veteran mom told me when DS was 9 months old; there are some children that just have no use for a sippy. lol

    DS hated sippy cups. Still doesn't use them. I think we have one of every sippy cup on the market. At 10 months we taught him to use a straw, and almost all of his cups use them now.  The only sippy he will take my mom didn't find until he was almost 2; they are the old-school tupperware cups with no valve.

    So far, DD has no use for a sippy. She doesn't seem to like the cups with the valves either. I am hoping the tupperware lady still has them when we go to the flea market later this month.

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  • pitterpatter129pitterpatter129 member
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    I will pass on something a veteran mom told me when DS was 9 months old; there are some children that just have no use for a sippy. lol

    DS hated sippy cups. Still doesn't use them. I think we have one of every sippy cup on the market. At 10 months we taught him to use a straw, and almost all of his cups use them now.  The only sippy he will take my mom didn't find until he was almost 2; they are the old-school tupperware cups with no valve.

    So far, DD has no use for a sippy. She doesn't seem to like the cups with the valves either. I am hoping the tupperware lady still has them when we go to the flea market later this month.

    If you take the valve out of the Dr. Brown's brand sippy, then it becomes very much like the tupperware type!  The water basically just pours out of it. (I take the valve out of ours.)

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  • PersaPersa
    Get the playtex lil grippers straw cup, stage 1. We just started our 8 month old on it yesterday and she's already getting it
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  • Wufroggy79Wufroggy79 member
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    take the valve out of the sipper cup,

    put water in the cup

    and play with it in the bathtub

    show baby how to drink out of it,

    and then if they pour it all over the place it's fine cause they are already wet.

     

    mine started on straw sipper cups at about 7 months cause they never took a bottle.

     

    Not so sure I'd want LO drinking a cup that was just in bath water. Ick! Anyway, I've been doing a little research on sippy cups lately, and some articles have really steered away from using them at all. They've advocated going straight to a cup.
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  • LordValuemartLordValuemart
    We started Ronan out on one of these at the first stage it's like a bottle with a cross cut instead of a pinprick hole, but different enough that he knew the difference, then a bottle with handles, then it has another spout that comes with that's a regular silicone sippy spout. We just skipped the no handles thing, had the first spout for about a week to get him used to it and then put the regular silicone sippy spout on, he did just fine. I got it at walmart.
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  • PunkyBoosterPunkyBooster member

    Mine barely drinks out of it, though he knows what to do. I give him a small sippy of water with solids. He goes straight to picking it up and putting it in his mouth and sucks. I think this is just a developmental thing?

    In any event, I use the Tommy Tippee and Avent ones because they don't leak everywhere. 

    I also work on drinking out of a real cup with him. 

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