sippy cups

How many do you go through in a day? Ok, so they are done with the first milk cup of the day. Do you reuse the same cup later for next milk time rinsed or washed out or do you get a new one? We have just switched over to milk cups, they have been getting water with a drop of juice for a while now in cups. I still warm the milk a little so I am not totally comfortable with saving the not finished milk for the next milk time. I tried preparing them the night before, as our cups are a pain in the neck with lots of pieces for the straw but they don't leak much and it is the only one they like, and it was like sippy cup he11. Especially putting them all in the dishwasher that night after they had been used!! So now I'm thinking a running cup of water/juice in the fridge when not in use for the day. And rinse/wash the milk cups after each use and get them ready for the next milk time. Then run the 4 cups in the dishwasher at night. It is a little more time consuming during the day but I am doing it that way today it seems to be ok so far. I am just trying to find the most effective way to do this during the day and wondering what others do.

 

My girls use one cup for milk and one cup for water all day long. BUT, they will drink some with breakfast and it goes back into the fridge. They take it out and get sips here and there throughout the day but it never stays out for long and I don't heat their milk ever.

 

Six cups a day (4 short, 2 tall)

We use the same 2 milk sippies throughout the day, just put them back in the fridge after each meal, and re-fill at the next meal. We do not warm the milk.

We give half juice/half water at snack time, this uses 2 more sippies. We just use these once then put in the dishwasher.

We give them a tall sippy each of water to drink throughout the day. Water is the only thing they can drink away from the table. So at the end of the day we take those up to their bedroom in case they want a sip of water over night, then they go in the dishwasher in the morning.

 

Typically, it's just one a day. We give them their milk in the morning and once they finish it, we rinse it out and just put water in there. If there is something else they want, then I may give them another cup. I'm trying to move them to real cups most of the time, but the sippies are easy when they aren't sitting at the tables.

 

I use one cup for milk, one for juice or water. So total of 4 cups per day. When they are done with milk straw sippy, it goes back in the fridge until they need milk again. they are now tall enough and strong enough to open the fridge by themselves and help themselves to beverages whenever they need it. the trick is to get the milk back in the fridge. if it's been out too long then I just get a new cup and put the Yuk one in the dishwasher. (our fridge in this apt is a top/bottom with the fridge on the bottom).

 

My two each have 2 cups a day. One for milk, they drink it at each meal and it goes back in the fridge. They also have a juice cup, again goes back in the fridge with whatever they didn't drink. So 2 cups for each of them for a total of 4 a day.

 

We get two milk cups a day plus juice cups (mostly water and a bit of juice.) I'm concerned with them getting too much milk. We use new cups each time as I worry about germs breeding in the cups after they drink them.

 

I fill a pair of cups in the morning and then just keep topping them up. I offer the same cup all day long with meals. If it happens to get sticky or encrusted, I may wipe/wash the top or I may pour the milk into a new cup. So long as the milk is refrigerated between servings I think it's fine. Their tummies aren't as sensitive as in the newborn days when one little bacteria could throw them for a loop (i.e. the whole not re-using formula thing, which one doctor told me is a crock anyway, but I never did it).

 

They get two. One for water and one for milk. The milk one goes into the fridge and gets topped up as the day goes on. It's washed after dinner and we start over the next day.

 

QUOTE(MichelleL @ Mar 14 2008, 11:47 AM) [snapback]669091[/snapback]
My girls use one cup for milk and one cup for water all day long. BUT, they will drink some with breakfast and it goes back into the fridge. They take it out and get sips here and there throughout the day but it never stays out for long and I don't heat their milk ever.


Ditto...we use the same cup all day, but it stays cold except for right when they're drinking it. Our boys were super picky about having their formula/milk warmed when it was in bottles, but I just refused to do it when we switched to cups. They did better than I expected, and now after only a few weeks they are fine with it cold. So you might try it cold; it would allow you to just pop it back in the fridge.

ETA: We also have water cups that we just leave out in their play area, and they sip on them all day whenever they want. The milk cups stay in the fridge except at mealtimes.

 

We fill one up for breakfast and use it (refilling as necessary) during the day. If it gets dirty (with food on the outside) during meals, I wipe it off with water. I toss whatever milk is left after they go to bed.

They are not allowed to walk around with it -- they only drink milk while sitting at the table -- and it goes back in the fridge between meals. And if they happen to empty it at a meal, I start with a clean one for the next meal, rather than sticking the empty, dirty cup back in the fridge.

 

I am really bad with the whole sippy cup situation and feel like I go through way too many each day. It drives me nuts! We probably go through about 4 each a day so that's 8 sippy cups. I don't know if I'm just too lazy to wash but it's often easier to just grab another. Also, sometimes when they really want juice NOW it's just quicker to grab another one and fill it with juice than to have them crying while I clean it. But I think it may be a good lesson in patience that is overdue.