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MauiBride2008
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| Olowalu, Maui ~ August 6, 2008 |
| Family of 4 ~ April 2, 2011 |
| Family of 5 - October 24, 2012 |
Sippy cups?
MauiBride2008
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DS is only 5 months and we just started feeding him his first solid...Zucchini. He loves it and it has been going great!
I keep reading in books or these boards that you can start introducing a sippy cup around now? To me I think he is so little to be drinking out of a sippy cup but what I do I know, this is my first LO 
When did your LO start on a sippy cup? If you started early (maybe just to get used to the idea when in the high chair eating solids), what do you recommend starting with?
| Olowalu, Maui ~ August 6, 2008 |
| Family of 4 ~ April 2, 2011 |
| Family of 5 - October 24, 2012 |
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Re: Sippy cups?
My LO is still not on sippy cups, so take this advice with a grain of salt. We started with straw cups and that's what we still use. He started about 6 months with water in them. At one year, we transitioned to them from bottle without any problems.
We now use the Munchkin ones, but tried the Take and Toss ones before that - but LO figured out how to take the straw out so that didn't work. He really liked the first ones we tried and I can't remember why we stopped using them.
I think the reason he took to them early is because we used to give him water from our straws when we were out at restaurants.
Lo started drinking from a cup when we introduced solids (6 months). Between 6-7 months, we introduced the sippy cups (it gets messy with just the regular cups). We use the Take & Toss cups. When she was 9 mo old, we introduced the straw cups and she took it the first time we gave it to her. Now, she prefers the Playtex straw cups (we only have two) but we still use the Take and Toss ones as well.
We started kai on a sippy cup around 11 months. She took to it right away. In fact she is now weaned from a bottle at 15 months. Start when you feel comfortable with it. We only put water in her sippy at first. She has OJ with calcium on rare occasion. Otherwise its milk or water.
Thanks ladies for all the advice and recs!
How sad that I didn't even know you can start using sippy cups for LO and put water in it at 6 months.
R is still 5 months and just started eating solids, but I'm saving the sippy cup recs for when he is 6 months and see how he takes to it then and I guess we will go from there 
Thanks again!
| Olowalu, Maui ~ August 6, 2008 |
| Family of 4 ~ April 2, 2011 |
| Family of 5 - October 24, 2012 |
don't feel bad! you aren't supposed to know everything. i remember going to our 9 month pedi appt and the pedi asked, "so have you started giving her meat yet?" and I was like "uh.... was I supposed to already?!" she just smiled and said, "let's go ahead and start introducing meats to her now"
we never used sippy cups b/c I didn't want to have to wean her off of one....if they drink a lot of milk or juice (both have a lot of natural sugars in them) they can predispose them to cavities...water isn't an issue though. so we just introduced the straw cup to her when she was about 8 months old. she liked it but only used it about a month and then didn't want it anymore. i think it's too much work for her LOL we started w/the cup early on b/c she never took much to the bottle.... i can't remember how old she was when she start using a cup, maybe 4 months? we were desperate to get milk in her somehow since she refused to drink milk from a bottle (just 1-2 oz/day). but she really got the hang of the cup around 6 months. she still drinks out of a cup at meal times and doesn't really drink much on the go or while she is playing. if she gets thirsty she always tells me and we go get the cup. I hold it for her most of the time and sometimes she asks to drink "like a big girl" but I can't put much milk in the cup if she does that b/c she still spills it everywhere if it's too full!
we've never given her much water just b/c she is so tiny so we've always wanted to get as much milk into her as possible. even now at almost 22 months she only drinks about 12-18 oz of milk per day on average (and nurses 2x/day).
oh and as far as brands, we have the tommee tippee ones which i like but they are just a pain b/c they are hand wash only.
Jaime & Brent
Oahu, Hawaii | Sept. 9, 2005
My Food Blog - Good Eats 'n Sweet Treats
we tried a sippy (the nuk one), and i like it fine, but E never really figured out the whole tipping back thing - he drinks from it fine if you hold him reclined, like feeding him a bottle, but i felt like that wasn't the entire point.
so then we tried straw cups, and he's doing much better. we also use a playtex one, but with handles (like this). when we first gave it to him, he'd just bite on the straw, so we taught him to drink from it by dripping a little water into his mouth from the straw (put in a little bit of water, hold finger over the top, put into mouth, let go of finger) so he knew water came from the straw - then he figured out how to suck from there! much easier than i thought it might be. only downside to the straw cup v the sippy is that the straw cup will leak if tipped over, whereas the sippy is much more spillproof. E likes to whack the cups on the table
so it can be messier with the straw cup.
j couldn't figure out how to lean back at that age so we used straw cups. I cut the valve out of the nuby ones but ditched them after he could use something else because I hated all the pieces to wash and put back together.
He main sippies are klean kanteens - he has one for home and one for school - they use the avent lids and I don't put the spill proof valve on. They use take and toss for meal time (he gets rice milk). We stopped using bottles right at his first birthday and I think I sent in 1/2 bottles, 1/2 straw cups/take and toss for his BM after about 10mo.
He can use a regular cup (started that at about 12 mo) but likes to make a mess when I'm not looking so I rely on sippies to help with the mess factor while still trying to work on his manners
that way I can just leave a water sippy out all day for him to keep with him. We set his dinner place setting with some mini glasses that are tempered glass (pretty break resistant) that I found at williams sonoma since we are with him the whole time.
you can get leak proof straw cups (our tommee tippee cups are), they are just a pain to clean (like robbi pointed out) b/c i think you have to hand wash them due to the valves? not sure if there are leak proof straw cups that can be machine washed?
Jaime & Brent
Oahu, Hawaii | Sept. 9, 2005
My Food Blog - Good Eats 'n Sweet Treats
ooh, i'll have to look for those. ...that reminds me though - didn't lisa post something about her pedi saying to only buy straw(? sippy?) cups that did(? or did not?) have the valve? did we ever figure out why?