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XP: bottle vs sippy cup vs straw cup

flclflcl member
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XP with 3-6mos: I'm going back to work next week and LO will be 6 months in the beginning of Sept.  He's been refusing bottles since 3 months and no matter what we've done (and we've tried everything we could think of) he just won't go back to the bottle.  H has had some luck slowly pouring BM from a sippy cup (valve removed) into his mouth but LO has been slapping the sippy cup away for the last couple of weeks.  A friend who's a speech path said to use a straw cup, sippy cups are bad but I think he's still too young for a straw cup.  His pedi says to not worry, his survival instincts will kick in and he'll take a bottle.  Now I'm not sure what we should do, bottle, sippy cup or straw cup.  Just wondering if any of you have had LOs who refused bottles and never went back.  Did you end up using a sippy cup or a straw cup?  If so, how did you go about getting LO to take it?  TIA!
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Re: XP: bottle vs sippy cup vs straw cup

  • flclflcl member
    Thanks for the tip, I'm ordering one of those cups today!  LOs pedi said that babies usually don't drink from straw cups until 7-8 months so I wasn't sure if it would be worth a try.
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  • basil2basil2 member
    Bottle strikes are tough :(
    Our older son went through it when I was returning to work- right around 3 months. We tried every bottle I could find, sippy, straw cup- none of it worked. In the end, it had nothing to do with which bottle it was (we eventually wound up with the ones we started with). It did get better with time, and once he was at daycare for whole days he started taking the bottle.
    Good luck!
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  • kjsmith9kjsmith9 member
    We also started straw cups at 6 months and it only took her a few days to get the hang of it.  Never did sippy's.
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  • ejb23ejb23 member
    There is a new munchkin weighted straw cup that is almost exactly the same as the Zoli and half the price.

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