TTMA Drinking Cups

[dawnfire]

Okay ladies, the pediatrician said no more sippies for LO, but...I'm at a loss for how to get him to drink from anything else.

We've tried the Miracle 360 Cup, AVENT Natural Drinking Cup, and now I can't find the name of the other one we have at home but it's sort of like a sippy but not.

How do you get your littles to understand how these cups work?  I hold it up to his mouth, but he just sort of chomps on it with his teeth, then gets mad and starts crying.  Daycare is also trying to get him to do it, but no luck there yet.  I have to relent and go back to the sippy so that he drinks something.  I know there's straw cups, too, but that won't be much better because he doesn't understand how the suction of your mouth is supposed to work with those types of cups.  He just wants to chomp and not use suction.

Anyone come across any cups that help with this learning curve, or any tips on how to get him to have that particular light bulb turn on?

[surfmama106]

We have one of munchkin sippys with the bite proof mouth piece that she drinks milk out of, but I just bought her a kid sized camelbak and she LOVES it. She was drinking out of mine constantly so I went to target and bought her one of her own. I keep water in it and she drinks from it throughout the day. No idea how she figured out how to drink from it, she just started from mine one day.

[lea]

It's early to ditch the sippy cups completely so don't feel pressured. I'd keep offering a straw cup for practice until LO gets the hang of it but for real I wouldn't worry about getting away from a sippy cup at a year old. He will more than likely get the hang of a straw or a different kind of cup within the next few months on his own.

[littlemissmarla]

Yea, I'm kind of side eyeing the pedi saying to ditch the sippy cups? What is his logic behind that, curious? We were using the Avent natural with the silicone spout because it was similar to a nipple and she understood it. We've now switched to Evenflow Tilty cups and she does really well with those, it's a hard plastic spout though.

I'm trying to teach her how to use the straw. I picked up those regular disposable ones because the others we have it is so hard to sip from! I take a little liquid in the straw and then drop it in her mouth, she will wrap her lips around it and then I put it back in the cup with the liquid and then she will try and sip it. We're getting there lol.

[anotherdreamer]

Did they mean bottle? I think it's too early to say no sippies, and also side eye any pedi saying that. Either way, I definitely wouldn't feel pressured into it. You have plenty of time.

I would try working with straw cups. You can take a regular straw and dip it in cups of water/milk and put your finger on the top, then put it in LO'a mouth and let them "suck" (or get the picture at least) when you take your finger off and let the liquid go. DS figured them out on accident around 13m when he was blowing bubbles in my water, then sucked on accident. DD1 figured it out on her own much earlier, and for DD2 we worked with the straw method I described. At this point both girls (13m) favor DS's old munchkin straw cups over sippy cups.

[lucanjo14]

Agree that ditching the sippy seems odd. My pediatrician said to try and wean from the bottle and try to get primarily onto sippys. Anyway, following because I have yet to find a sippy I like/that doesn't spill. DS seems to like the straw sippys and drinks easily from them. I also bought a spout soft spout sippy that is ok. Not super impressed with any of them.
Eta: pictures

[jnnfrrose6]

We've moved off of any silicone sippys, so she uses playtex ones with the hard tops or things with straws, though I find any with a straw still leak a little too much. I agree with everyone else that it seems early for a pedi to be telling you to ditch sippys (besides the fact that there aren't many non-sippy spill proof options).

[gingergrant]

Sippy cups don't cause tooth issues the way bottles do, and I can't think of any other health issue they could possibly cause... So why is your pedi even talking about this? They are health experts, not parenting experts.

[anotherdreamer]

Aug 4, 2015 19:59:23 GMT -5 lucanjo14 said:

Agree that ditching the sippy seems odd. My pediatrician said to try and wean from the bottle and try to get primarily onto sippys. Anyway, following because I have yet to find a sippy I like/that doesn't spill. DS seems to like the straw sippys and drinks easily from them. I also bought a spout soft spout sippy that is ok. Not super impressed with any of them.
Eta: pictures

We have the weighted ones by munchkin too. I like them alright but the girls lost the flip top protectors and they are a bit of a pain to clean well. But the weighted end is nice.

[dawnfire]

Oh, thank goodness all of you are still using sippies. I was feeling like I was being a bad mom because the pediatrician said no more sippies (and yes, he said sippies--not bottles. We're already off the bottle). I think he was concerned about it having an impact on his teeth, but life has been a blur so I can't 100% remember the reasoning.

So hooray, we'll continue with the sippies we have in the meantime! I had been stressing way too much about that in addition to everything else.

I did order a new type of cup to try called the Doidy Cup. It has lots of good reviews, so we'll give that a try for practice. So glad I don't have to stress, though!

We still need to schedule a dentist appointment, I was a little worried about getting the evil eye for sippies.

[packerbacker]

My DD doesn't know how to drink out of a straw or an open cup yet. If it weren't for sippy cups she wouldn't drink any water. Agree with others that it is too soon to worry about getting rid of the sippy cup.

[jnnfrrose6]

Aug 5, 2015 10:57:20 GMT -5 dawnfire said:

Oh, thank goodness all of you are still using sippies. I was feeling like I was being a bad mom because the pediatrician said no more sippies (and yes, he said sippies--not bottles. We're already off the bottle). I think he was concerned about it having an impact on his teeth, but life has been a blur so I can't 100% remember the reasoning.

So hooray, we'll continue with the sippies we have in the meantime! I had been stressing way too much about that in addition to everything else.

I did order a new type of cup to try called the Doidy Cup. It has lots of good reviews, so we'll give that a try for practice. So glad I don't have to stress, though!

We still need to schedule a dentist appointment, I was a little worried about getting the evil eye for sippies.

DS's first dentist visit is the day after his third birthday (coming up in a few weeks). I asked if I should make one for DD as well since I dropped the ball on getting DS in earlier.  They said to wait until she has more teeth (at the time she had 4, now she's got 6 with 3 more coming in). 

[anotherdreamer]

Aug 5, 2015 10:38:34 GMT -5 @zerozeroone said:

anotherdreamer, that's the Munchkin straw cup we have in the living room filled with water. I haven't had trouble with it leaking but agree it's a pain to use that tiny pipe cleaner thing to clean the straw.

I use the Green Sprouts sippy for milk because the straw is bigger and I can use the larger pipe cleaner thing that came with the Dr Brown's bottles. Do not want to scrub milk out of that tiny, skinny straw!

We have those, plus the flip top ones by munchkin. Those ones aren't too bad, and I can buy replacement straws on Amazon as they're ruined or lost down the sink. We have more of those than anything.

[soon2bmrsn]

Yeah, I don't see the need for dentist before age 3ish.

[soon2bmrsn]

duplicate

[sararl07]

I'm still doing bottles of formula but she gets a sippy cup with her meals

[Lola]

Aug 5, 2015 12:52:07 GMT -5 sararl07 said:

I'm still doing bottles of formula but she gets a sippy cup with her meals

same. 

[surfmama106]

I'm confused, what comes after sippy cups? What am I suppose to give her to drink out of?

[soon2bmrsn]

Aug 5, 2015 15:19:13 GMT -5 surfmama106 said:

I'm confused, what comes after sippy cups? What am I suppose to give her to drink out of?

Regular kids' cups, I suppose. My 3.5yo just graduated from the sippy a few months ago but he's a walking disaster.

[lea]

Aug 5, 2015 15:19:13 GMT -5 surfmama106 said:

I'm confused, what comes after sippy cups? What am I suppose to give her to drink out of?

Just regular cups or water bottles. I don't think DS1 really did open cups on a regular basis until he was 3. Maybe we used them at the table before then, I don't remember.

He and I both pretty much just use straw water bottles during the day so obviously there's no need to outgrow a straw sippy
Cup, lol.

[Liv]

Aug 5, 2015 12:53:27 GMT -5 Lola said:

Aug 5, 2015 12:52:07 GMT -5 sararl07 said:

I'm still doing bottles of formula but she gets a sippy cup with her meals

same. 

Same!