When to Transition?

[miniwheat]

With my first I got the OK to try one at 6 months with water or formula/BM in it. She didn't really catch on until about 8 months.

[michelle142]

We started with a sippy if water at 6 months. But didn't start the transition from bottles until about 11 months. Bottles were completely phased out by 12.5 months.

[mishka29]

We started with water in a sippy cup at 6 months. But then decided to skip it and go to straw cups. We never weaned from bottle bc she never took one.

[junebugjam]

Jun 1, 2015 15:15:23 GMT -5 mishka29 said:

We started with water in a sippy cup at 6 months. But then decided to skip it and go to straw cups. We never weaned from bottle bc she never took one.

If my baby won't take a bottle I plan to introduce one around 6 months so that he has options when he goes to daycare besides starvation. But I'm a FTM so this is all just in my head for now.

[Deleted]

My mom said I drank from a sippy cup at 6 months. Of course everything they did in the 70s is forbidden now, so that may not be a good bench mark!

[krispy83]

We started with water in a sippy cup around 7 months. We dropped bottles around 13 months (though he wasn't terribly attached to them so it wasn't a difficult transition) and then moved from sippy to straw/spout/open cups a little after 2.

[lilyelayne]

FTM but SIL had to completely transition daytime liquids by one year because her daycare would not do bottles past one year. Her son kept a bedtime bottle for a while.

I think I'll try cups of some sort around 6 months. I'll talk with his pedi at our next appt.

[hollydfromtn]

FTM here as well so no advice on when to transition but I just wanted to share that the LC at our health dept. told me at my last visit that there's really no developmental need for the sippy cup. She said that it just postpones the child's ability to drink from an open cup. I'm not sure how I feel about skipping sippies all together but it was an interesting thought.

I did see these cups at Walmart the other day and I think we may give them a try when the time comes. They're kind of a sippy/open hybrid. mobile.walmart.com/ip/34202166?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222228022627335&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=45289820912&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=88658838992&veh=sem

[krispy83]

hollydfromtn, I've heard that too. But with the amount that cups got dropped (intentionally or unintentionally) when DS was learning to drink from a cup, I would not want to move right to open cups. Straw cups are a really good alternative, because many of those are designed so they won't spill if they are knocked over or held upside down (which toddlers definitely have a tendency to do).

We also used the Oxo Tot trainer cups which were pretty good because if he knocked them over, they didn't completely spill everything right away. And by 2 his ability to hold onto the cups, not drop or toss them as soon as he was done, etc was much better than it would have been at 6-12m.