sippy cups?

Question

i always ask questions about my baby feeding cause it worries me alot. now my question is : my daughter is 12 month old she doesnt take sippy cup.i tried diffrent ways and tricks it didnt work. i put juice or water she doesnt want it. how can i train my baby to start drinking by using sippy cup?????

plz do u know the best sippy cups i can get her??

Answer 1

there are ones that you can get at walmart or target.. they are called nubby. they have a soft plastic top that most resembles a bottle and a leak proof top so they don't spill every where. they seem to be the best transition from bottle to sippy. honestly though my son is 11 month old and refuses the sippy also, some babies are just bottle babies and have a harder time. i have bought every sippy cup imaginable and the nubby one is the only one he is slightly interested in, even though he doesn't drink from it long. from what i hear, it takes a few days of just offering the sippy for them to get used to it. they end up getting thirsty and just taking the sippy. it seems cruel but from what i hear it works. they will not let themselves be thirsty for long... thats what i plan to do, but have been waiting until he is one, when i do the milk transition. then he'll associated milk and juice with the sippy and formula with the bottle, but since he isn't on formula he won't be offered the bottle. i hope he catches on... hope this helps with your lil one =)

Answer 2

My daughter is two and she just starting using a sippy cup. Does your baby drink from a regular cup or maybe from a straw? My daughter did both of these things before excepting a sippy cup. I honestly think she didn't like the bulky mouth of a sippy cup not to mention the new ones take forever to get fluid out. HINT: If it is the new no spill kind, try drinking from it yourself and you will see why she doesn't like it. Take out the stopper! Otherwise just give it time and be patient with her. If she doesn't try it today she might try it tomorrow , a week or maybe even a month from now. Eventually she will get it, there is no magic to things like these, same goes for feeding. Just keep trying. Goodluck!

Answer 3

My son had trouble switching from bottle to sippy. I found some cheap ones at WalMart that had a soft spout -similar to the bottles. After that the change was so easy. By then he was 14 or 15 months old.

Try to avoid sippy cups with removable valves. They're a pain.

Answer 4

starting a sippy cup can be a real challenge (as you have seen) have you tried drinking from a sippy cup in front of her, i know it sounds silly but if she sees you doing it, that may help. and if she even takes one sip out of it, applaud her, be very enthusiastic about it. if you are really desperate you can try only giving her a sippy cup, no bottle. of course you wouldnt go for more than 5 hours without her getting some fluids down. but it may make her desperate enough to want to drink from it. if youve tried all the other tricks this is the only thing i can think of but please remember, dont go any longer than 5 hours. good luck.

Answer 5

Try a straw type cup. You also need to be consistant about taking the bottle from her. If you want her to use a sippy cup during the day, do not give in and give her a bottle. I would also put her milk in the cup.

Answer 6

I introduced the cup with juice in it about 9 months so it wasn't a big transition. I nursed until 12 months and then started weaning. When my babies had no choice but the cup they adjusted in a week or so.

Don't give up, keep working with her. Once you have decided to make the switch, don't give in and return to the bottle. This will be the first of many power struggles you and your daughter will have! If she sees you give in and give her back the bottle she will only cry louder and harder the next time.

Answer 7

At ten months I gave my son all his bottles and let him throw them all away himself. Then the only option he had was a sippy cup and that was fine with him. I had it easy I guess.

There are sippy cups that you still have to kinda suck on which she may like more than one that is more free flowing. You could try rubbing honey or something sweet that she likes on the sippy part and maybe then she'll suck on it to see what's inside.

Answer 8

all of us started a sippy cup with my son at 10 months. He not at all held his very own bottle (i think of that became into quite often via certainty that he became into quite often breastfed and in straightforward terms have been given a bottle at daycare). He did no longer even start to hold his very own sippy cup until eventually he became into over 14 months.

Answer 9

This is going to sound mean. My 2nd did this for 3 months. When he was 11 months old, we had him go cold turkey off of the bottle. We bought a few soft tipped cups (Nuby has them for $1 a piece) and flat out got rid of the bottles.

He was fussy most of the day, but by lunch he had figured the thing out. After a week with them, we gradually switched him to the hard tip. Worked like a charm!

Answer 10

Take her to the store and let her pick out her own sippy cup. She doesn't want to use one, so you have to get her excited about it. Find one with Elmo or Dora on it or something and then maybe she'll like it better.