I think the shape has something to do with it. Because the bottle pushes out their teeth a little more than a sippy. But, we didn't stay in a sippy long either, we use straws and lids, or a plain cup. I started a sippy at 6 months but I have yet to find one that doesnt leak so if he wants milk to go to bed I give him a bottle. He is in no way attached to his bottle, but I'm still on the search for a good sippy cup because I can't stand it when he has a whole puddle of wetness.
He does really good with drinking out of a cup with a lid, but when I give him a reg cup he gets too excited and starts jumping up and down lmao. These are the best ones that I've found so far. Experiment with different cups to determine what works best for your baby. Read more about what beverages to provide your baby and toddler.
Instead, focus on letting your baby practice drinking from a cup. By removing the spill-proof valve or choosing a cup without one, your baby will have to learn to tip the cup and sip in order to get liquid from it, much like drinking from an open cup. Practice makes progress! Or try holding a small, child-sized cup with a few tablespoons of water in it. Your baby must develop oral motor control to learn how to seal their lips on the side of an open cup, receive some water, keep that seal while swallowing and move the cup away from their mouth.
Some babies have an easier time transitioning to a new cup if you present them with a familiar taste. For babies who are exclusively or partially bottle-fed as opposed to exclusively breastfed , try giving your baby half of their breastmilk or formula in a bottle and the last few ounces in a cup.
When you switch out the bottle for the cup, continue to snuggle with your baby like you normally would when feeding from the bottle. You can also try having your baby suck on the bottle nipple for a few seconds, and then switch over to a cup containing breastmilk or formula. For babies who are exclusively fed at the breast, follow all other suggestions in this section. Holding, lifting, and tipping the cup to drink is an important part of the learning process for your baby. Some companies sell handles that fit on bottles, sippy cups, and straw cups interchangeably, which can make for an easier transition.
However, because of their ease of holding and carrying around, many toddlers will hold onto their cup of liquid all day long, much like a security blanket. These are great reasons to seek out open cups with handles made for babies and toddlers and provide liquid at meal and snack times. A worn cup with scratches is more likely to harbor bacteria and, if the damaged cup contains bisphenol A BPA , may release small amounts of the chemical.
While research on the effects of BPA on humans continues to advance, there is enough evidence confirming risk and, many manufactures no longer use the chemical in their baby cups.
Toddler sippy and straw cups with lots of parts have nooks and crannies may trap bacteria and other germs — yet another reason to promote open cups as soon as your baby can handle them! Separate all the valves from inside sippy cups and take out the straws to clean the cups thoroughly before hand-washing or running through the dishwasher. Look for toddler cups that are easy to separate, clean and sterilize to make your life easier.
If your baby falls asleep while drinking from a toddler sippy cup or bottle, the milk may pool in the back of their throat and coat their teeth with sugar-containing liquid for the entire night.
Be sure to separate your baby from their drinking source and brush those teeth before bed. We know parenting often means sleepless nights, stressful days, and countless questions and confusion, and we want to support you in your feeding journey and beyond.
Chat Now! We tried just a regular cup tonight. Noah wanted to grab it right out of our hands and get his tongue on that pear juice. He thought it was awesome! Granted the majority of it ended up on the burp cloth underneath his chin, but it was a great start.
Yeah, I got this! Why do we ask parents to be off the bottle? For one it is really bad on the teeth. It allows the sugary substances to hang out in the mouth a little longer than they should. It is also thought that if once a child is older and feeding themselves that if they are walking around with a bottle in their mouth all the time they will not use their mouth to communicate. The straw is important for proper tongue placement in the mouth and helps build strength for their oral motor skills.
The sippy cup does not promote proper tongue placement. You can always buy a straw cup but other methods for trying a straw are using a juice box or capri sun. This way you can squeeze the fluid into the mouth. Drinking from the cup as Noah is doing also promotes good tongue placement and oral motor skills.
What cups, straws, bottles, sippy cups have you had success with? Take a minute to leave a comment below telling us about your experience with any of these. Email Address. Sign Me Up! Freddie is just starting with a cup — we tried him with all sorts of beakers with teats etc and he hated them. He watched mum and dad drinking their cups of tea! When we tried him with a plastic cup and some water he got the hang of it straight away. Let me know if you find any tricks with the straw!
That is why I tried with Noah. With our kids we used straws really early. You make sure you start out with putting your finger on the end so that it picks up a bit in the straw and then drop the drops in their mouth so they know what comes from it. Then when they like what they can get from it and want more you suck up the liquid to the top and pinch it off so that when they start to suck they are not sucking it all the way up from the bottom getting frustrated that it takes so long.
The should only have to suck a tiny bit to get it to their mouth. Then when they get the hang of that then you let them suck it all the way up the straw themselves. Avent has some straw cups that look pretty interesting. Talk tools has a great regimen for helping teach straw drinking to young children.
It was effective In those instances. Firstly, let me congratulate you on the amazing website!! Brilliant information, beautifully laid out and very accessible and positive about everything! My daughter Seren now 13 months was breastfed, never had a bottle, and when it came time for her to drink, I went straight to a straw — which she still uses today. I bulk buy disposable straws and carry them everywhere.
She only drinks water or milk, so I can easily dunk a straw into my water or a water bottle. I managed to get Seren to drink out of a straw from 7 months old. I did it by using a shallow cup, half filled with water — quite cold water so she could feel it immediately in her mouth. I cut a straw down to about the length of the cup plus 1cm, so it just came over the rim. Then I brought the cup right up to her mouth and tilted it so the liquid was almost at the rim of the cup.
By the time she got her lips around the straw and made any kind of sucking motion, the cold water was right in her mouth. She got the technique within the first couple of goes.
As she got stronger with her sucking, I lengthened the straws to she understood she had to suck a little more to get the liquid. Now she is an expert!! Those ideas are brilliant!! I am going to try the cold water. Congrats on breastfeeding for so long as well, that is awesome! Hi would just like to say this reminds me of my daughter, exactly! Did not take long at all! We totally underestimate these small little humans????
You are so trying to help! Oh I can tell you lots about this. It is so awesome you are starting really early. Now we use the Rubbermaid litterless juice box. He drinks it like a champ, holds it on his own. So proud!
I am going to have to get the litterless juice box. Have you done more of the talk tools stuff? I see they have a whole package for Down syndrome with the straws and horns and such. I know that they recommend the honey bear but I was thinking that things you can get at the store would be quite similar.
Sippies are my worst enemy! Here is a video of Julian drinking from a straw for the first time at 11 months! Julian is now 14 months and crawling around, pulling himself up on furniture, signing more and starting to wave hi! I loved watching the videos of Julian! He is adorable! He sure can handle that spoon well. And the straw! Thanks for sharing. It was so lovely to see! Now we have one sippy cup, only for milk after dinner phasing this out at the moment!
I doubt it. That is so fun that his speech is improving. And also walking at the same time. I can only imagine the celebrations going on at your house! Hi there Great website. I got my little girl straw feeding using a Honey Bear cup — but you can use pretty much anything. She will also drink from a cup.
I was given a really good bit advice before I started with the cup which was to use a thickened liquid which therefore moves more slowly. We used smoothie and it worked a treat! Oh thickener, my worst enemy. Have you found something that is similar to the honey bear in stores? We went from bottle to straw. I remembered the very first time Kaela sipped from a straw on her own. Ohh, the small joys.
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