Sippie cups

My babies are 12 months now! They still don't really use sippie cups.. even for water/juice.. I have tried a few times but they don't really know how. How did you teach your babies to use them?

 

I just kept offering them. We started off with the Nuby soft spout ones which has a nipple close to a bottle and that helped them make the initial transition. Good luck!

 

We had good luck with the Avent Magic Cups. We just offered them with meals, as well as in between meals and bottles. Eventually they caught on!

 

I know that the pedis usually say get rid of the bottles at a year but I didn't think my kids were quite ready, they just didn't get it so I waited a little longer. Maybe another month or two - I know it wasn't that long ago but I just can't seem to remember exactly. Don't freak out over the transition, just keep it at slowly and they will get it.

 

We used these first: http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=165736&catid=26965&aid=337953&aparam=gerber_graduates_sip_s&CAWELAID=61281213

It's got a soft spout that's comfortable for their gums, doesn't leak, and easy to clean. It took about 3 weeks of them playing with them and then tossing them on the floor for them to get it. But when they did, they didn't turn back. They get so excited to see their sippies [even though 99% of the time water is in it].

Good Luck!

 

The hardest for me was finding the right one. I started off with one baby at a time. My girls never learned how to hold their bottles so I had to hold them with their sippys like a bottle, which helped. The second week I put her in a high-chair and held it for her. Then finally she started holding it on her own. At about 13 months is when I slowly transitioned to milk. (I didn't want to change two things at once so I knew what the issues were; milk or the sippy. With my second DD it took longer because for weeks I was trying to get her to use the same type of sippy as her sister, so finally I tried a straw sippy and it worked!

This of course is the long way, I know others have gone cold turkey and never looked back! GL

 

We used the Nuby sippies, too, and had success with those! We moved on to the different ones once they started to chew through the Nuby.

 

We just had 12month check up yesterday, and our pedi didn't even mention that we should be only using sippy cups. My guys have been drinking water from them but mostly when i support cup by tilting it. And I am not going to get rid of the bottles for probably another 4-5 month(per pedi OK.
Oh, and we use Nuby ones also.

 

We had to sample several types of sippies before finding the one the girls liked, the playtex first sipsters with the handles. This was easy for them to hold, but Ana didn't get that you still had to suck on it to get something out. So I took the valve out and showed her there was stuff in there and then she got it after awhile. Meara took to it immediately and thought that it was the greatest thing... to chew on along with drink from

GL!

 

at 12 months, we first switched my girls to the nuby spout cups cuz they were so much like bottles/nipples. then after a couple of weeks, we switched to straw cups, and of course they had no idea what to do with the straw, but honestly just kept giving it to them and i think they picked it up in 2 days, trial and error. and we've been using straw cups ever since. it's so convenient now that we can go to restaurants and orders them a kids meal and a kids drink of apple juice in a cup and straw and they can drink it like anything!
i love straw cups!!

 

We found the Take n Toss ones to be great for learning. There's no valve, so it's easy for them to drink. You can also just take the valves out of the ones you have. But you probably just want to try that with water b/c it gets everywhere. Good luck!