Sippy Cup Question - Lorton,VA

Hi, I never bottle fed so my advice may not be exactly what you're looking for, but when my sons were ready for liquids other than breastmilk, I just started them straight out on regular cups. It cuts out a second transition later on. It's messy at first, but you can minimize that by just putting a tiny amount of the beverage in the cup at a time and by buying cups that are small enough for them to easily handle. My boys were each about 9-10 months old when they learned to drink from a regular cup. You could give it a shot anyways, what have you got to lose? :)

I had success with playtex sippy cup (has a straw). My daughter just wouldn't use any other type and still won't , although I didn't have any success until she was 17 months , I know the guidelines & Dr's all say take them off the bottle when they are 12 months but I think it is too young (very few are ready at that age) , they are still babies really.

I did it without a sippy cup. I gave her a small cup and juice and she leaned to drink from that. First time she got wet, the second time she learned not to tilt the cup like a bottle and she drank her juice. 6 month after that we got rid of the bottle with no problems. No sippy cup here. Don't need it.

I suggest buying one that will work for awhile. I started my kids arounf 5-6 months with low flow ones, and they were on a normal higher flow sippy and straw cups around a year. So, at one, I would think she would be fine wiht the cups made for older kids. I always use playtex as it is easy to find parts - lids, valves, etc. should we need a new one - we are rough on our sippy cups! By the way, my kids didn't "get" straws easily... until my husband offered my daughter a chooclate milkshake. he sucked some up through the straw and she drank it. Straw learned very quickly :)

My sister is a speech therapist and she suggested to teach our son how to drink from a straw cup to develop certain muscles in the mouth that are important for articulation. We use the take-and-toss ones (without tossing them).

I think they are all pretty much BPA-free now, but I would keep my eyes open for that on any packaging.

I don't know what kind of bottles you used, but if you used Born Free, you can just buy a different piece for the spout, and use the same bottle parts. That is great for saving money! Maybe other brands of bottles have the same idea.

Other ones we like: Nuby and Munchkin.
Ones we tried and don't like: Avent and Gerber

Playtex was the only kind we found that would not leak--and we tried SEVERAL!

Don't be surprised if you go through a couple of brands. Thank goodness I didn't load up on one kind. Everyone said Nuby is awesome, the way to go. Well my son REFUSES the Nuby. He is much happier with the soft spouts from Born Free. Now he is FINALLY at 15 months starting to accept the harder spouts. Every kid is different. I would buy 1 sippy and try it then another if necessary.

I agree with Suzanne to try different cups to see what she prefers. I have always used the Nuby cups with the soft silicone spout, and those worked for my first two children. But I've also always transitioned them earlier, like 6-8 mos, before it becomes a "fight." (I find that once you hit 12 mos, everything becomes a fight, but transitioning earlier is easier) I will admit, however, that my 6.5 month old that I am trying to transition now is currently refusing to do much more than play with his nuby cups. So I'm off to get some other sippies for him to try myself (and I'm going to try the Born Free sippies that Suzanne suggested, LOL!).

Good luck, and keep trying!

I would highly suggest going the straw cup route. They are better for speech, development of the tongue muscles.
I bought my daughter My first straw cup. http://www.greatbabyproducts.com/index.php?p=uvl&pnum...
I was very pleased with them. If your daughter has a hard time with the straw at 1st, just suck some of the liquid in and hold one end and have her suck it out of the other end, she will catch on quickly!
If you have issues with the lid, sometimes they break after awhile from being too tightened, they will send you replacements free.

The Nuby soft spout no spill cup worked for us. (target, cvs) usually sell in 2-packs.
the soft spout is the important part

nuby with the sillicon nipple

My son loved Advent because they were soft.

I found that the Gerber Nuk sippy cups worked very well for my son. They have a soft spout that is very much like the nipple on the bottle. As I'm typing this response I'm starting to question myself as to whether that is the name of them but they are definitely from Gerber and can be found in the baby bottle aisle. We had tried a few other brands first before finding these and nothing worked. Once we switched to these we were officially done with bottles within a week or two. I was afraid that because of the soft spout that it was going to be very hard to transition to a regular sippy cup but after just a little while of using only these we started to use regular sippy cups during the day and the Nuk only at night.

Hands down, the NUK orthodontic cup! It is so similar to a bottle. This is the only cup my daughter would drink milk in! You can still warm it up, and hold your child like you have been with the bottle. It doesn't come out too fast, where it would spill on your child, like the Nuby cup did. As far as using sippy cups for juice or water, I like the Gerber cups these are the only ones that do not leak. Good luck!

We switched my son at 9 1/2 months. We started with the Nuby cups because the spout is soft silicone like a bottle. Once he was using those without a problem, we switched him to the playtex cups. The playtex ones are the only ones, in my experience, that are truly leak free (on occasion you will get a leak, but usually because the lid or valve isn't in place tight enough). However, I do NOT recommend the playtex straw cups. I have 4 of them and they leak terribly!