How did you get your DC to take a sippy (if it was a problem)

jodynjames2005 · December 2008

My girls are sippy-challenged. Alice won't let us help her and just flails around with it, gets water all over herself if we take out the spillproof part, and never manages to drink anything regardless of whether we leave the spillproof thingy in anyway. Charlotte will drink out of it if we tip it up into her mouth, but only with the spillproof thingy out.

Neither will hold their own bottles, either. They are happy for us to feed them. Charlotte will only drink a bottle if you hold her, even!

How do I get them to take a sippy? Is there a specific one that made it click for your DC? These two are just plain not interested... at all.

FWIW, they have only been feeding themselves finger foods for a couple of weeks and still have no interest in using a spoon themselves.

Mrs.Donkey · December 2008

I just started out K with a Nuby straw cup. I would put a little water in it and let him play around with it. My theory was he eventually tries to suck on everything at some point, so he was bound to try to suck on the straw. It took a few days, but he finally figured out if he sucked on the straw, he got something out of it. He didn't really master it for another couple of weeks. Now he's got it down like a champ. He won't take any other type of sippy.

LoriFalce · December 2008

Joseph completely resisted the sippy. Until a month ago. He picked it up himself and hasn't had a bottle since. I always had it around but didn't push. It was his choice.

I'm having a harder time with the spoon. He loves spoons. He has very little interest in feeding himself with one, though. I'm mostly getting him used to the idea by putting thick stuff in the bowl of the spoon and letting him have it. About a third of the time, the food eventually gets in him, but it's completely accidental. I'm definitely not relying on it for feeding.

susansev · December 2008

we only had success with the soft spout nuby sippy--like your DD's ours never held her own bottle...we started with one sippy a day and as she mastered it we moved on using it for the dinner and then finally breakfast...we also found that the formula maybe was too thick to get out so as we transitioned the meal to a sippy we had milk in that sippy..

CarissaA · December 2008

My boys just now started holding thier own bottle, but they can only do it in their boppy or if we are holding them. They can't figure out how to tilt thier head back, so when we give them water in a sippy cup we use the ones with straws they love that maybe you could try those?

cruisebride2005 · December 2008

We've just started to give water but when DS wasn't getting the idea of a sippy, I gave him water in a regular glass and just tilted it back for him so he could practice drinking as opposed to sucking. ?He now drinks from his sippy although he's too young to hold it still.

Bride_Best · December 2008

Chase just took to his sippy at about 7 months. He seems to like the Munchkin sippy (softer spout) and the Playtex ones. I think it just happens when they're ready!

Scuba_Girl · December 2008

With both of my kids, we started with the Nuby ones with the soft spout. A lot of parents we know recommended those, and our kids really took to them pretty easily. I think they even make ones that are very similar to bottles in shape and in the spout (the spout is long like a bottle nipple but open ended instead of rounded). You could try those first. Our kids did ok though with just the regular soft spouts. When they got the hang of those, we moved on to the hard spouts.

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