Sippy cups

Macie and Makenna will be 11 months on the 11th. We have three different kinds of sippy cups and have for a few months now. I let the girls "use" them a bunch at first. One baby can drink out of it, but has to be laying on her back because she doesn't understand how to turn it up. (same way she holds her own bottles) The other baby cannot even hold the sippy cup (or bottle) alone at all. I lost motivation and rarely give the girls the cups.

Okay, how do I need to really get going with these things so that I get the girls off the bottle as close to one year old as possible? Once a day I give juice in one? Do I hold the cup for the baby that can't just so she gets the idea of drinking from a different type nipple? Do I need to start now or closer to one? Do they only need juice from a cup or formula too? As you see, I have many questions!

Thanks in advance. It's time I get to work on this! :grouphug:

 

Amusingly enough, I could have written your post about my own twins and thought.. "how funny!"

Then I saw their birthday was the same as my babies and decided it must be a Feb 11th thing Good luck and I'll be watching this for replies

 

Just keep giving it to them. They will just play with it at first but they will eventually get it. You can demonstrate for them, sometimes that helps. Also, sometimes if you take the valve out for the first few times, it will sometimes help them understand that water/juice comes out of there.

 

too funny! My guysw will be 1 on Feb 17th, and i had the EXACT question! I have tried 2 different types of cups and tomorrow i will attempt Dr. Brown cups. I feel like i am failing as a mom vb/c my boys don't drink out of a cup and are hardly eating table foods!

 

What kind of cups do you have??

My oldest ds couldn't figure out a sippy cup at all, this was before they had soft nipple ones. The playtex ones were hard and he hated them. I tried taking the valve out and he still couldn't get it. I tried the straw sippy cup, he LOVED it! I gave it to him at around 11 months, and that night before bed, he refused to use his bottle! I put his milk in the sippy cup and he drained it!

My oldest dd had trouble figuring out the regular playtex cups, but they did have the rounded nipple ones (still hard just round, not square) and I just kept giving it to her, and taking the valve out and tipping it up for her and she eventually figured it out.

The twins, I invested in the silicone nipple munchkin sippy cups. No valve, very similar to a bottle nipple. They've been using them for several months, around 8 months I started putting their formula in the sippy cup in the afternoon, and yes I still had to hold the cups for them but they soon figured out how to drink out of them. Now at 10.5 months old, my dd will hold her own cup (and bottle most of the time), and my ds will hold his cup when they are sitting in highchairs. And they are now starting to learn to use the take n toss cups and regular playtex cups. They eat 2 meals a day and I put a splash of juice, and fill the cups with water. The fuller they are the easier to get liquid out of them, they don't have to tip them so far back.

Just keep practicing. I will say I didn't like the nuby soft nipple cups, the lids on several of mine were very hard to turn, and Liam has already bitten a hole in one nipple. I love the munchkin soft sippy's though!