sippy cups to serve breastmilk?

Team Kimball · October 2013

Hello! I have a 6 month old who is very comfortable taking bottles with his caregivers while I'm at work. I've been reading up on when to introduce cups and would like to do this (I think) to promote some independence but have some questions. Will having him use a cup be too easy and could that cause him to want to wean earlier? How do I prepare "sippy cups" for caregivers? Right now I always have bottles in the fridge and they are easy to heat up in warm water, would I do the same with cups or would it make sense to keep milk in milk bags (which would be wasteful)? If doing this is a good idea, what cups would you recommend? Should I start out with ones that use straws? Sorry for all the questions...

CLLDLL · October 2013

We started with a sippy that had silicone tip that was recommended for ages 4 months plus with LO was 6 months. He would drink a few sips and then just play with it. I finally got tired of him wasting the BM so switched to water.

Then one day around 7.5 months he got ahold of my water cup with a straw & low and behold he got water out of it. So I bought some of those Lansinoh Momma sippys with straws. At 10 months we replaced one of his daycare bottles with a sippy of milk. By 11 months he was completely off bottles.

He still nurses when he's with me, so we haven't had any early weaning issues. We just store milk in the sippy cup in the fridge. The momma ones have a lid that twists to cover the straw.

jllmb79 · October 2013

DD#1 took bottles of BM at daycare. I had them offer 2 oz of cold BM with her meals in a sippy around 7 months and on. I nursed her till she was 15 months then weaned

DD#2 doesn't take bottles but I still offer BM cold in a sippy with meals. At 7 months she doesn't drink much out of the sippy. I do it for sippy practice and hopes of weaning easily after 1yr.

Team Kimball · October 2013

Thanks for the responses, I think I'm going to try ones with a straw and ask the pedi about water. Thanks!

TexasAggie06 · October 2013

We offer DS a sippy cup fairly regularly now that he's 6 months old. It took a few times for him to get the hang of it but he really likes water because I usually offer him from my straw when we go to restaurants. I don't put more than an oz of water or so because he really drinks it...

Yesterday I put 2 oz of BM in the sippy and he drank it pretty quickly, didn't waste much. I haven't had any issues with him not wanting to nurse because of it. Hopefully that doesn't become an issue?

We use a trainer sippy cup with a silicone tip.

aylafsu88 · October 2013

CLLDLL said:

We started with a sippy that had silicone tip that was recommended for ages 4 months plus with LO was 6 months. He would drink a few sips and then just play with it. I finally got tired of him wasting the BM so switched to water.
Then one day around 7.5 months he got ahold of my water cup with a straw & low and behold he got water out of it. So I bought some of those Lansinoh Momma sippys with straws. At 10 months we replaced one of his daycare bottles with a sippy of milk. By 11 months he was completely off bottles.
He still nurses when he's with me, so we haven't had any early weaning issues. We just store milk in the sippy cup in the fridge. The momma ones have a lid that twists to cover the straw.

This sounds like what we did. LO mainly drank water from a sippy cup from 6 months to 12 months. LO was off bottles and drinking from a straw cup at 12 months. It went a lot smoother than I thought and she had no problems with the transition.

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