First of all i want to apologize. I rarely respond after people have replied to my posts. I VERY MUCH appreciate all the support you ladies. I just get busy and...well.. you know. But thank you all so much!
My 11.5 month old daughter has low tone and a high palate. One or both of these seem to be affecting her ability to use a sippy cup. She's been using stage 2 nipples on her bottles since about 3 months and does fine. Sippy cups though require too much suction. I can remove the "no-spill" valve thing but then it just pours out and that's no good either. We've tried a few (Avent, Nuby, Playtex) with no success. Any suggestions?
Thanks again!
Re: Easy (but not too easy) sippy cups...
we use the tilty cup with the smoothie lid (he also gets thickened liquids though). they do have a normal flow and they do not have the "no spill" valves.
we also use the nalgene sippy/water bottles. they are in the fitness aisle with all the other water bottles but they are for kids.
my son also has low tone and a high pallet and we've had success with both of these sippy cups (after many many trials and errors with others).
hth!
I was going to sugges the take and toss straw cups....but if you want to have the actual tipping of a cup I have heard really good things about the Reflo cup....though it may just be a little too much for your LO to use right now. I am actually thinking about trying a few with my DS to get him to learn to use a cup.
https://www.reflo.net/
I would recommend starting with the take n toss straw cups. DS's feeding therapist recommended these for us to try and they were the only thing DS could do for a while. We then were able to gradually transition him to the nuby straw cups and other styles of straw cups and he is just now starting to understand how to use a sippy.
Honestly though I wasn't too concerned if he never mastered a traditional sippy cup because its not like you continue to drink from a sippy as you get older but you DO continue to drink from a straw and it was nice when we were out and about if he didn't have a sippy he was really good at using a regular straw at a restaurant.