sippy cup at 4 months?

mauied08 · July 2013

so im a ftm, and i went bottle shopping today and since there was a sale going on i decided to pick up some sippy cups from tommee tippee.

dont know why i got this cup, but its a sippy cup for 4+ months. it seem strange to me, i thought babies didnt start using sippy cups until they were closer to 12mo, like 9mo or so?

has anyone had their baby use a sippy cup at 4 mo.? if so, do you switch back and forth with bottle and sippy cup when giving formula?

is 4 mo. the time when you give them water and juice? just wondering? thanks

kmichln · July 2013

From what I remember with DS, the doc discouraged juice until around 6 months. I don't think a baby will be ready for a sippy cup at 4 months. I don't remember when we gave DS a sippy cup. I know by the time he was 1.

ack2002 · July 2013

If a baby can hold a bottle he or she can hold a sippy cup. Four minths is too young though. But water and especially juice is too early. Waaayy too early for juice!!

atoz625 · July 2013

No water or juice till at least after a year, unless your doc says something about water. Even my 2.5 year old doesn't get juice regularly. I think we started sippy cups around 6-8 months, but there's a range for everything.

zora51 · July 2013

They really shouldn't need water or juice at 4 months... I'm BFing, and my MW confirmed I shouldn't need to supplement ANYTHING until close to a year old... a lot of people start cereal/solids around 6 months, but earlier than that is really young. I'd check with your Dr if you're not sure!

LnR70707 · July 2013

It recommended to start introducing water when you introduce solids, so since some people do that as early as 4 months, they put that on the cup. We introduced solids and water in a sippy around 6 months. Formula/BM was always in bottles...when we switched to cow's milk at a year we introduced it in soft straw sippies.

WheeLinTheSky3 · July 2013

I think DS started using one around 6 or 7 months for water. We kept using a bottle for milk for a few months after that.

Also, FWIW My pedi suggested that we do not give him juice at all and stick to water. Every once in awhile I will put a tiny splash of 100% juice (less than an ounce) in his water cup but thats it. He is perfectly content with water and doesnt know the difference.

WashingtonQueen · July 2013

Babies don't need water until after a year old and they never need juice. My 2 year old has still never had juice and I have no intention of giving him any.

beckyanddon · July 2013

I remember introducing a cup around 6 mo but I had a hard firm rule. No juice and the soppy was for water only. Milk was in bottles. It just made it easier on me.

TaraBeth384 · July 2013

I'm pretty sure we have the Tommee Tippee cup you're referencing, because our's also was marked 4+ months. We introduced water in it around 6 months, for practice sipping, but she really didn't get the hang of it until around 10-11 months. The same cup is still used from time to time and she is almost 2.

We didn't start diluted juice until around 18 months, but used the sippy cups from 11 months on to transition off the bottle and for water on hot days.

magdalina.h · July 2013

Lucas didn't have juice until he was 2. Didn't have water or sippy until a year

BelhurstBride · July 2013

Even at 3 DD only gets diluted blueberry or prune juice for constipation issues only. No kid needs juice on a regular basis and early juice drinking is linked to obesity.

Many parents start offering water when they start solids, but it's recommended to wait until after 6 months for that.

We never used a sippy type cup and just offered a regular one.

SarahinMD · July 2013

Not for water or juice at that age, but many moms who are exclusively breastfeeding have difficulty getting LO to take a bottle and so use a sippy cup for BM (for expressed milk when they're away from LO) at that age. You'll see it a lot on the BF board, and esp. On the Kelly Mom site and discussions

mauied08 · July 2013

SarahinMD:
Not for water or juice at that age, but many moms who are exclusively breastfeeding have difficulty getting LO to take a bottle and so use a sippy cup for BM (for expressed milk when they're away from LO) at that age. You'll see it a lot on the BF board, and esp. On the Kelly Mom site and discussions

wow that interesting that a bf baby wont take a bottle but a sippy cup, which is nothing close to a nipple.

mauied08 · July 2013

@sarah, im curious, how young does the bf moms put their baby on a sippy cup if they dont take the bottle?

mauied08 · July 2013

mauied08:
@sarah, im curious, how young does the bf moms put their baby on a sippy cup if they dont take the bottle?

nevermind, i found my answer. a mom from a different website stated she gave her dd a sippy cup because she refused a bottle at 6 weeks old. this was 9 years ago, so this has been going on for a long time, but its all new to me.

hokiemel7 · July 2013

Our DD used an Avent bottle with side handles at 4 months to just get her used to holding the bottle herself. I don't think we actually used any sippy cups until later on, but for only milk.

mrs.JL · July 2013

My DS starts with a sippy cup before 6 months. As PP mentioned he BF and he would not take a bottle but would take cup in a pinch. Plus we gave water during our supper to entertain him and to get him used to it.

Mom2bois85 · July 2013

My son started using a silicone sippy cup around 9mos and then the hard plastic style sippy cup sometime shortly thereafter... Around a yr. you shouldn't give juice until after a year, even then if I ever gave juice it was mostly water and fresh squeezed or pressed juice. juice isn't that great on their Tummies or for their teeth...

BlueJewelM · July 2013

kmichln:
From what I remember with DS, the doc discouraged juice until around 6 months. I don't think a baby will be ready for a sippy cup at 4 months. I don't remember when we gave DS a sippy cup. I know by the time he was 1.

We gave DS a sippy cup around 4 or 5 months just to see if he was ready, like you did...didn't work for us either. He didn't love it and preferred bottles (or breast) but its not uncommon. As far as juice and water we held off for a year, OP, You can put formula or breast milk in a sippy.

That.Just.Happened · July 2013

I started offering water in a sippy cup when we started solids (around 5mo) as per my doctor's advice, and at that age it was really only for practice. She didn't actually figure out the sippy and start using reliably it until several months later (and we had to try a bunch of different kinds before we found one she liked). At a year you are supposed to drop the bottle entirely and switch them to whole milk. We actually still did a bottle 3 times a day (of whole milk) until 18 months and then dropped it, she never really drank milk out of a sippy before then but would drink water.

We have never and will never offer juice. She gets water or milk, period. The only time she has ever had juice is at birthday parties where it was the only option and then we made a big deal about how it was a very special "treat". It is terrible for them nutritionally and dentally.

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