using a cup

Bridezilla to be · March 2012

help! my son is 8 months old, and cant use a cup....i feel like i did him a huge injustice by not starting him earlier on this he cant use one. i have been trying, but he doesnt get that he has to hold it, and when he does get some liquid, he chokes on it. i have tried the kind with no handles the "first" cup from tommee tippee, and have tired the kind with the double handle. i even have the nuby. all have failed so far

please give me some advice on how to get him to use the cup? also, i'm putting water in it....should i be doing something else?

dairygirl19 · March 2012

TBH and I don't mean to be mean but:

Why are you the least bit worried about this?

I'm pretty sure very few 8 month olds can use a cup properly.

My 8 month old gets a sippy (some with double handles, some with none) and she can get it to her mouth but she has no idea what to do with it when she gets that far. Basically, she looks at it, rolls it around, holds it, bangs it on the highchair, tips it upside down and spills water all over herself. Rinse and repeat. And she only manages that much when she wants to.

Just keep giving LO the sippy. He'll figure it out eventually.

Hell, a good share of kids don't "get it" or care until it's time to give up the bottle.

itsmevkb · March 2012

Hmmm......none of my kids knew how to drink from a cup at eight months.

I've never even really started with sippy cups until they were a year, which is also the same time I switched them to drinking milk. So, at a year I stopped bottles and formula and switched to whole milk in sippy cups. My son caught on within a day but my daughter had a "harder" time and it took her a few days.

If you're intent on getting him to use one soon, sometimes you do have to try different types of cups, ones with soft spouts vs harder spouts, with a valve, without a valve, two handles, etc. Also, sometimes it just takes the baby a little while to figure out how to drink from it but eventually they all catch on.

lwmooney87 · March 2012

My LO just started using a sippy last night and it was the straw kind

https://www.amazon.com/Playtex-First-Gripper-Trainer-Colors/dp/B004E2H3PA/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1331151337&sr=8-8

I've tried all different kinds and she took to this one no problem. (She won't even hold her own bottle lol) Maybe you could give it a try? Don't worry if your LO isn't getting it, one day it will just click. Just give him time.

landosmommy · March 2012

DS doesn't have a sippy cup down yet. He knows there's something in it to drink, but he aren't figured out how to tip it upwards to get the liquid out. I wouldn't worry about it.

Bridezilla to be · March 2012

Ok good to know. I really thought they were supposed to be drinkin from a cup by this age. I thought I was late on the uptake. But clearly not. Thanks!

Snapdragon750 · March 2012

I get stupid nervous and insecure too when I hear about someone else's baby, who's younger than mine, using a cup for the past two months. But then I take a deep breath and ask myself two questions:

1. Will she ever learn to do this if she doesn't now (i.e. is this indicative of a developmental problem)? Are there 10-year-olds who have trouble with this skill because their parents didn't give them practice at this age?

2. Does it make my life much easier if she learns to do it early?

If the answer to both of these questions is "no" (and it almost always is), then I take a chill pill. Sippy cup use is not an important developmental milestone, and learning to use one early has no impact on development whatsoever (if it were, imagine all those underdeveloped babies before they were invented!!).

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