@imapenguin, to answer your question in my circle people do breast until weaning and then straight to a cup. A tiny clear glass (about the size of a shot glass tbh) is used to transition rather than a sippy cup. If formula or pumping is used bottles are used for that but it's very anti sippy cup in my circle and NEVER juice in a bottle.
I would seriously have people side eyeing me for giving a bottle of juice. But SIX DAYS STRAIGHT OF POOPING EVERYDAY for my LO so I'm now a believer in juice.
@jemomma, just moms I know irl. I have to admit that I totally did not know about the juice being good for constipation until I dealt with a constipated baby and everything I'd ever read made it sound like juice in a bottle would make all of their teeth fall out. Guess that goes in the "why did no one tell me?" category.
@imapenguin, to be fair I don't think they'd ever actually say anything about it. I'm just assuming this is how they feel because of how militant they were about not using the sippy cups/juice with their kids.
@jemomma, haha it might be that here a lot of mom's have been indoctrinated by scary speech therapists. Although the book I got from our provincial health authority (the one that is given to every pregnant woman in the province) says to go straight from a bottle to a "small lidless cup".
Post by periwinkledaydreams on Feb 12, 2016 21:18:43 GMT -5
FWIW, WIC is "no sippy", and I am asked every time if I am giving her water and if so, if I'm giving it to her in her little cup (was given to me by WIC). So I lie, cause its not worth the convo Im about to have to have, but I do wonder how that convo goes for people who don't lie? mrsmonogrammed aren't you a WIC nutritionist or something? Do you have to teach no sippies, or perhaps its regional?
Post by jillywilly on Feb 12, 2016 21:24:05 GMT -5
I've tried giving DS the sippy cup and he could care less about it. However, if I'm holding him and drink water out of a glass, he always reaches for it, so I let him have a sip one day. Now he goes nuts every time I drink. I guess he would fit in well with Bluedaisy 's mom friends? I'd prefer for him to figure out the sippy. Do not want water poured all over my house. Although, he does drink prune juice in one of his bottles every day. Has since about two months when his doc told us to try it to help him never pooping. So never mind, he's probably out after all.
FWIW, WIC is "no sippy", and I am asked every time if I am giving her water and if so, if I'm giving it to her in her little cup (was given to me by WIC). So I lie, cause its not worth the convo Im about to have to have, but I do wonder how that convo goes for people who don't lie? mrsmonogrammed aren't you a WIC nutritionist or something? Do you have to teach no sippies, or perhaps its regional?
I'm a social worker (official title- Case Manager) who works with WIC:) Not every WIC office has case management available in the same building so some might not have that as a component to their WIC visits. Our nutritionists recommend sippy cups anytime after 6m and say to use a "hard top" aka not the kind that is soft like a bottle nipple, so they don't get confused.
Basically as long as you're not putting pop (soda?) or 8oz of full sugar juice in a bottle, you're doing it right;)
ETA- *8oz juice for funsies. Anything prescribed/ recommended by a Dr trumps what WIC recommends. And obviously if it's relieving constipation or some other medical issue, KOKO!
Oh another FFFC: I totally laugh at people when they hurt themselves. Not if it was serious of course but if my husband stubs his toe or something. I feel terrible but it's almost a nervous thing and I can't stop.
FWIW, WIC is "no sippy", and I am asked every time if I am giving her water and if so, if I'm giving it to her in her little cup (was given to me by WIC). So I lie, cause its not worth the convo Im about to have to have, but I do wonder how that convo goes for people who don't lie? @mrsmo mrsmonogrammed aren't you a WIC nutritionist or something? Do you have to teach no sippies, or perhaps its regional?
I still qualify but I got tired of listening to them at every appt. But same. I lied.
jillywilly, can I ask a total SS question: do you add the prune juice to formula or does lo drink it straight?
We only do about a teaspoon or so of prune juice, so we've just been adding it to the first bottle of the day for him and it's been keeping us nice and regular since we started. A month or so ago I thought we could stop since we started solids and swore to all formula, but game started having issues again, so we resumed, and have been regular since.
Thanks for the info jillywilly, I might try that for maintenance. I've been giving half an ounce at a time but never thought of just adding a little to his bottle.
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