Is it just me or do sippy cups seem really hard to sip from?

We're just now beginning to "practice" with sippies because of my boys' adjusted age. They treat them more as toys right now than anything. They really only get a sip of water from them if I lay them down and hold the sippy for them. I have tested a couple and they seem really hard to sip from with the valves. Is it just me or does anyone else feel this way? Which brand(s) do you use/like the best? One day does it just kick in and LOs figure out how to use them?
Thanks.

 

The ones with valves are hard to sip from, but they will get the hang of it. You might want to remove the valves while they are learning, but it will be messy so you might want to only give sippies to them while they are in their highchairs.

We like the Playtex cups because they don't leak too bad. Have you tried straw cups? My kids could use those when they were about 7 months old, but didn't get the hang of sippies until they were closer to a year old.

 

We used the take'n toss for a long time, then switched to the playtex ones after they learned how to open the others.

 

We tried so many different kinds when we started and we had the most luck with the Nuby soft spout cups. I think they were closest to bottle nipples. They didn't start really drinking out of other sippies until about 15 months. Everyone raves about straw cups, but mine still won't drink out of them. They just chew on the straw. When we first introduced sippies we just had them with water at every meal and also kept sippies with water in the play room and once they started drinking from them we switched to milk.

 

We tried like every sippy there was. We tried them with valves in and out. Then one day we were out to eat, and they drank from one of our straws, and then we just moved to straw cups from there. The take n toss straw cups are *fairly* spill proof, to be honest. Those were a good start, and then as their sucking got stronger, we moved to Nuby flip n sip cups. Those are the best for us, in fact we got them another pair for their birthday.

 

When I started giving the boys those no spill sippy cups they just couldn't figure them out so I tested it out and it was WAY hard to get water out so it was no wonder they didn't like them.

They REALLY like those sippy cups with the straw. Not so spill proof but it's much easier for them and they like it so I'm ok with the mess.

 

Thanks Ladies. I'll try some of your recommendations, especially the kind with the straws. I currently have 2 Playtex sippies and 2 Avent sippies. The Avent ones seem a little easier for them. We'll keep working on it!

 

I take the valves out when they are learning to drink from them. Once they understand to tip and sip, I put the valves back in.

I also preferred the soft spout munchkin sippy cups to train with, no valve, very easy to compare them to bottle nipples as my kids used silicone nipples. The nuby tops were too flimsy, they chewed through them too fast. Once they mastered the munchkin sippy's, we've moved back to playtex, I've found them to be the least leaky, and the easiest to clean. I've been using playtex since my oldest was on sippy cups, and he's 8, and i still have cups/lids from when he was young

 

I used the Nuby 2 handled soft silicone ones first from 6-12 months. The were pretty easy to suck from. They didn't really get the hang of sippies until around their birthday. Now, I use primarily the Gerber hourglass shaped ones (the insert valve has Nuby on the plastic) They are the most leak proof I've found. I let them be in the living room, with others that we've tried and I found to leak only at meals at the highchairs.

 

We tried all of them at first and I agreed that they were hard to sip from... I was talking to my sister about that and she asked if I had pushed something through the valve to get it opened up... DUH I thought. Some of them you need to "open" if you will, it's like there is just a slit and it's not open all the way. After I did that it was a lot easier to sip from. We use the Platex ones and the NUK two handed ones (with the softer spout). Pretty soon they'll be leaking all over the place (like ours do now) and you'll wish the valves were not as opened again... Haha. It also seems that over time they open up more. They'll just get it eventually, don't worry!!

 

Just wanted to pop in with a don't worry about straw sippies. Mine drink out of them now but they backwash in them something awful! It's so gross! :bad:

 

My girls have the Avent ones as well. They have a softer sippie spout. I let them "play" with water filled sippies during the day in hopes that they will actually attempt to drink from them at some point!! They kind of chew on the spout and that releases water. They will sort of sip from it if I hold it there for them. Maybe my expectations are too high, but I feel like they should be drinking out of them by now. Mommy is soooo tired of doing the bottle thing