I am wondering when did you break the bottle and go to a sippy for the most part full time? Josh is 7 months and still takes a bottle just about exclusivly. I have started to play a game when I feed him where he takes a drink out of his sippy and then I do. He thinks it is great fun.

my dd's docter said to start giving dd a sippy as early as 7 mths...I mostly give her bottle though now even though she is 9 mths..i will slowly give her the sippy now and then but I dont think I will fully give her the sippy till she is a year. I did this w/my son introducing the sippy at age 10 mths and then fully took away his bottle at age 1 w/great sucess..I acutally threw away all his bottles so he had no choice but to drink from a sippy...rereading that last sentence i sound mean..lol..oh well...


i've seen kids up to age 2 or 3 sometimes w/bottles...In my opinion I think its harder for the parents to give up giving bottles then it is for the kid to stop drinking from them and transition to the sippy...

one good tip is to find a sippy your child likes...one to try is a nuby (they sell them at walmart for a low price) its has a soft/same texture as the bottles nipples...


keep in mind every kid goes at their own pace..not every child is the same as far as milestones like transitioning..it just some patience

Oh gosh, with my son he was about 2.5 years old before he had to go cold turkey when I took the bottle away from him (at this point he was only getting it 3 mornings a week when I had to wake him up early because I worked PT. He'd get his milk in the bottle. All other times he used a sippy.)

With my daughter, she refused to take a bottle as an infant, much to my dismay. Made it very difficult to be away from her for more than 1.5 hours or so till she started on solids. For her I just started her on a sippy cup around 5-6 mos of age by removing the sippy lid stopper thingy and putting in diluted juice. She got a swig of the juice and was all over that. After a few times I put the stopper thingy back into the lid and she just figured it out and I was able to put in water and breastmilk.

I would really try to encourage your child to use an open cup, not a sippy with a lid whenever they show in interest in your drink and want to give it a try. Learning to drink from an open cup is a tough skill that requires a lot of mout coordination. The early children can start working on that skill the better. Speech Pathologists hate sippy cups
http://www.teachtofeed.com/faqs.html
This is just one of many articles that discourages the use of sippy cups. They can cause issues with speech, oral strength, tooth decay, etc. I am the first to admit that an open cup is not feasable some times with toddlers!
My daughter's speech therapists reccomends the cups with snap on lids and straws. They are semi disposable ( think they are called "tossables" or something like that) and in the baby section of walmart

I would really try to encourage your child to use an open cup, not a sippy with a lid whenever they show in interest in your drink and want to give it a try. Learning to drink from an open cup is a tough skill that requires a lot of mout coordination. The early children can start working on that skill the better. Speech Pathologists hate sippy cups
http://www.teachtofeed.com/faqs.html
This is just one of many articles that discourages the use of sippy cups. They can cause issues with speech, oral strength, tooth decay, etc. I am the first to admit that an open cup is not feasable some times with toddlers!
My daughter's speech therapists reccomends the cups with snap on lids and straws. They are semi disposable ( think they are called "tossables" or something like that) and in the baby section of walmart

THanks for that. I didn't know or think about that but it does make sence. We alreay let Josh drink from our cups or we dip the staw in water and plug the other end with our finger. I am still going to use sippy's just because open cups create such a mess especially at this age when EVERYTHING winds up on the floor, but I will be sure to continue with open cups and even transition from the sippy sooner then later. Thanks!

I am surprised that sippy cups are not liked by speech therapists. My daughter has used every type of sippy since she was probably 10-12 months, and she talks more than a lot of my friend's 3-4 year olds. (she's 2.5) Maybe it is because she nursed for so long that she built the right muscles...but I would have to literally hose down my house if I gave her an open cup. We did try open cups with her at meal times in the high chair, but all her food just went into the liquid, and she won't drink any large amounts at once, so we gave those up. She does drink well from our cups, always has, but boy, what a mess those can be! Haahaa

I do see how there can be tooth decay, but you get that with any type of container if you don't limit sweet drinks, don't brush after drinking/eating, and putting baby to bed with anything but water. We let DD drink some milk before bed, but we always brush her teeth after. We do leave water for her in her room, but she never drinks it. Who knows if she even remembers it's there! Haahaa

I have to say I didn't like the Nuby's. DD bit right through them! I had to resort to all hard lids because she bit through another type of softer lid too! Silly girl!

I hope you find something that works well for your baby!

Blessings,
Amber

I started Grace on a sippy cup at 6 months. I give her water in it. I too take the valve out so it's easier for her to develop the "sucking" motion on the sippy lid.

I've tried 2 kinds of cups....the harder rubbery lid and the softer lid. Grace prefers the harder one right now so she can "gnaw" on it :-)

Of course her favorite thing to do is take in a sip and spit it all out and let it run down her chin :-)

She still takes a breastmilk bottle for her bottle feedings during the day while I'm at work. I'm still breastfeeding her through the night.

I don't plan to do much concentrated weaning from the bottle til after she's a year. I'll let her nurse longer. She's beginning to self-wean from the bottle a bit anyway, so I believe baby is our best teacher :-).

Happy sippy cup time!

when my son started speech therapy, the first thing that they said was no sippy cups, and that cups with straws were ok

we went cold turkey at 10 months....started with a soft square sippy tip for the first month though and then went to a hard sippy tip...

I finally broke katherine of bottles... she's, um, 22 months. hahaha... she stopped a few weeks ago. We had been down to sippy cups during the day and only a bottle for bedtime for a few months...

yes, i know, terrible I let her have a bottle for that long, but, whatever. LOL

We bf and never had to "transition" form bottle to cup. But from breast to cups with straws (our Goobs HATED sippy cups) we started around almost 7 months. By then they loved holding ANYTHING. The cool thing about the soft straw cups, they didn't have to "tip them up". Also cool for a babe the already knows how to suck mastery of a straw is relatively easy. IMO. Good luck! ~Kerri

We've been experimenting with sippy's since Landon was 8 months. They have the soft tops. Landon lets some dribble down his chin still, but does a pretty good job. But I tried a straw over the weekend and he drank with it like he's been doing it forever. I've seen the cups with the straws because our youth minister and his wife use this for their 3-4 year old. I'm going to pick some up. But I'm keeping the sippy's for when I need to make sure there are no spills.