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Sippy Cup Help

Ok, First off sorry about Below. The Nest kind of freaked out and won't let me delete.

How hard do you push a kid with eating trouble to use the sippy or straw cup? I have tried getting Ben (15 months) to use a straw or sippy, but except for occasionally juice, he refuses. I have tried several brands, but if I put his formula in there he throws it, or bangs it upside down spreading formula all over the place.

I think it is more important to get in him, then if it is in a bottle or cup, but how do you get them to do it?

I have been offering the cup for at least 6 months, but he just doesn't seem to want it.

Katherine

Katherine Proud Mommy and Foster Mommy

Re: Sippy Cup Help

  • My personal opinion, as someone who BF's but gives bottles for DC, is that you ought to be trying to move away from bottles sometime in the first year.  I would like us to be totally done with bottles at 2 years old.  But really, what the rush? It gives him comfort and is easier for him to drink, so really, WTH cares?

     

    I would keep offering sippies, straws, and open cups (with assistance obviously) but if he doesn't want it, respect his choice.  I would probably tend to make him wait for the bottle until after the meal though- no bottle at the high chair, if you are thirsty while eating you can drink from your cup.

  • My DD won't take a bottle and only takes a Nuby cup, but loves those.  She has trouble focussing during meals, so we often feed her as she plays since we need to get her weight way up.  Sippy cups end up as playthings if we don't regulate their access...read: gulps of water spit cheerily down her front!

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  • My DD has terrible eating issues, who we see two feeding specialists a GI and a nutritionist for.  Our pedi tried to get her on a sippy cup for her bottles too, but she absolutely refused to drink her formula out of anything but her bottle.  As far as I'm concerned, she needs the calories more than she needs to be on a sippy cup.  We give her water in her sippy cup and let that be the one thing that she controlls going into her mouth.  It's a struggle every day, which it sounds like it is for you too.  In my opnion, stick with the bottle and offer the sippy cup for him to experience on his own.  In due time he'll transition.
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  • Thanks. I know he "should" be working towards it, but I have a hard time choosing what is the "right thing" and the "right thing for ben".

    The calories are way more important then how they get in, so I will just keep offering it, and it will happen when it happens.

     Katherine

    Katherine Proud Mommy and Foster Mommy
  • We've also had luck with the Nuby sippy cups, which are "bottle like" in size and shape. Good luck!
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