1 yr plus moms

AnnaMPAdams · June 2012

I need help with getting DS to use a sippy. We've tried about 6 different styles, but he just chews them all, and he doesn't tip them back either. Ive tried the straw kind as well with no luck. He still takes a bottle during the day while I'm at work, and he makes my mom (she keeps him) hold his bottle for him. I realize that every baby is different and will take a sippy when they're ready, but I wanted to at least start the transition off bottles, and I'm wondering if anybody has any tricks to get him to understand the sippy better.

CHI-06 · June 2012

My daughter refused to hold her own bottle too...and then one day my DH decided he had to break the habit. It literally took a couple of feedings. We knew she was capable so he held it in front of her and made her reach for it and grab it which she would do...but then wouldn't continue to hold it. Basically he just stopped holding it for her and helped place her hands to hold it. There was a bit of crying but 2 feedings and that was it.

Sippy cups... are you just putting water in it? My kids never figured it out when we tried to give them practice with a sippy with water. Once I weaned to WCM I only offered it in a sippy and helped them with it at first and this worked best.

jlsimon56 · June 2012

We are in the same boat. Everyone tells me that one day it will click. This is why I am so hesitant to drop more pumping sessions at work, b/c I want to be able to provide BM for LO! Arg! Haha. It's so silly, a sippy cup....but I'll do whatever for my LO!

AmyRI · June 2012

I would start by getting your mom to stop holding his bottles so he realizes he has to tip it up. He'll never catch on to the sippy if he doesn't know he has to tilt it up himself.

For us, it was a wait-it-out sort of thing. We always put the sippy on his tray when he was eating solid foods, and tried to offer it to him often. Daycare gave him a sippy cup to play with beginning at 7 or 8 months (with water in it) and at first he would just carry it around by the handle, but eventually he started chewing on it and would get little dribbles of water. I did try without the valve a couple of times, with me basically pouring water into his mouth so he realized there was something in there. It helped a little, but he really preferes it with the valve and sucking it out on his own. One day he figured it out and started drinking during his meals. After he would drink, we would always put the cup back in the same spot (a special cup-size indentation in his high chair's tray) and now he puts it back there himself. Babies are smarter than we give them credit for - just keep at it often and I bet he'll learn.

I still can't get him to drink from a straw cup, though... wish I could so I wouldn't have to carry a sippy cup around when we go out to eat. Every place has straw cups, but he just doesn't get it yet.

belladonna11307 · June 2012

DD still doesn't hold her own bottles (she only gets two a day now), but we ebf at home and she gets bottles at daycare. We just kept giving her the sippy cup and while she was playing with it and chewing on it she figured it out. We only did water until recently. Now we'll do breast milk, wcm, or add the tiniest splash of juice to a full cup of water. She drinks much more that way - in fact she "chugs" breast milk from a sippy. Just keep trying, it'll come.

tokenhoser · June 2012

I got the rubbermaid juice box style straw cup. When I squeezed it, milk came out. And then he understood WTF I'd been up to with all the freaking cups.

He also does better with an open cup with just a bit of water in it.

We never use the sippies. Total waste of money in this house.

Birdies08 · June 2012

What about trying an open cup? If he still needs his bottles held, it wouldn't be too different to hold an regular cup. Then, if he starts being interested in feeding it to himself, you could try a sippy again or just try to teach him the regular cup.

We let my LO use a regular cup for water most of the time when we're at home. She can bring it to her mouth and drink from it, but we still heavily supervise, because she thinks filling her highchair tray with water is super fun

Todd&Laura · June 2012

My son went through a frustrating period where he would not tip the sippy and we tried quite a few styles. Strangely enough, I think he was holding his own bottles at day care (no bottles at home, so I am not totally sure). We finally had success with the straw sippies. Eventually, he came around and now drinks out of just about anything, but I still mostly give him straw sippies. HTH

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