How do you get your LOs to drink from sippy cups? DS is 10 months old and I've been trying to get him to take a sippy cup for months now and he rarely drinks from it (i.e. maybe only 5% of the time).
Any tricks?
Willow's_lilmama
05-24-2008, 06:02 PM
When my ds wouldn't tip up his sippy cup, I got the ones with the straw. Have you tried that? It might be a bit easier and more fun for him.
My DD really likes the Avent cup with the soft tip.
spacetygrss
05-24-2008, 06:05 PM
When my ds wouldn't tip up his sippy cup, I got the ones with the straw. Have you tried that? It might be a bit easier and more fun for him.
My DD really likes the Avent cup with the soft tip.
I have the Avent cup. Do you have a brand that you recommend with a straw?
lydiamom
05-24-2008, 06:24 PM
My dd did much better with a straw cup as well. We used the Nuby ones--they seem to be the easiest for smaller kids. It says 18 months on it but we did it way before then. The other straw cups all say 3 years or something.
AshtonsMommy
05-24-2008, 06:32 PM
:popcorn: My lo is 15 months and still won't drink from a sippy cup, if I take away his bottles all day and just give him sippy cups, he doesn't drink anything all day! As soon as i give him back the bottle, he drinks like the whole thing!
dskinner
05-24-2008, 06:44 PM
I second the Nuby cups!
BasicallyBliss
05-24-2008, 07:37 PM
Does your Avent Sippy cup have a valve? If so, you might try removing the valve until your LO adjusts to the sippy cup.
Another idea, which worked for my older DC, is to offer a liquid besides milk in the cup. Perhaps water or a diluted juice, if your LO drinks juice. Once the cup is routinely accepted, try milk again.
I do recall that it took both my DS1 and DS2 several weeks to accept a sippy cup.
Willow's_lilmama
05-24-2008, 07:46 PM
Sorry, I don't remember what straw cups I used. DS is 5 1/2 and my brain is mush.
Bobbysmamak8
05-24-2008, 08:19 PM
Nuby & Playtex were our first cups, the two-handled ones. I suggest putting something REALLY yummy in it, he'll figure out how to drink it quick enough! ;)
Beebug123
05-24-2008, 10:41 PM
I started both of my girls on sippys at 4 months or so. DD#1 wasn't too picky but DD#2 I had to buy lots to try. She likes the Gerber Nuk sippy the best because of the laytex nipple. I imagine that she would like the Born Free one as well because the nipple is very similar. I even tried the Nuby ones, both kinds and she didn't like either of them. Now I have a cupboard full of ones she won't drink from!!
clkafka
05-24-2008, 11:01 PM
We used a small sports bottle. My ds did not like sippies with or with out the valve. I also started with a regular cup, it was messy and I had to hold it, but he liked it.
onejadedlyric
05-24-2008, 11:20 PM
One more for the Nuby cups with the straw!! My DS loved them :thumbsup:
tuckergirl
05-25-2008, 07:50 AM
Does your LO just not like them or not know what to do with them? We JUST had a sippy cup break through, but it was because my DD had no idea what to do with this new strange thing mommy was handing her. She was EBF and very rarely had a bottle so she'd just chew on the sippy spout - she had no idea that you had to suck on it and I didn't know how to tell her. So I got her nursing and then popped her off the boob and inserted the sippy cup and she sucked on it. The "ah ha!" look on her face when she figured out that she could get liquid out of this funny cup was hilarious!!!
Now she's got it down like a pro - although she did manage to soak her shirt and bibs on our walk today . . .
Terra
05-25-2008, 07:57 AM
Oh gosh it took DS until he was about 17 months to get the hang of the sippy so I just followed his lead. We started around 7ish months with the Nuby starter pack that has the bottle nipple and when they suck the bottom of the sippy pulls up. It also has a sippy spout.
But DS forever liked the slowest flow ever...he just could not control anything beyond a slow flow. We tried all kinds of cups. Nothing worked...but I just always offered about twice a week. [I just put water in them though forever since milk is too expensive to waste :giggle:]
Finally one day it just clicked and he could control the flow [with the Nuby wider mouth sippy's that are like $2 at Walmart].
I think a lot depends on the child's personality and when they are ready.
