Mothers of breastfed children only please! When did your child begin to use sippy/straw or regular cups?

Question

Do children who are breastfed and only took a bottle a handful of times (breastmilk, of course) sometimes pick up on the cup a little later?

Oh, my daughter will drink from a sippy cup with my assistance, she just won't on her own. If I give her the cup, she'll play drink or just shake it and laugh. Or it ends up on the floor. She's 14 months.

Answer 1

I breastfed my daughter till she was one.....and when I introduced whole milk to her she took it after awhile........and she didn't like the bottle so it took forever to get her to finish one bottle.......And same thing as yours...she didn't know how to drink from the sippy cup unless I held it for her.....didn't know how to tip it up so she can get the milk. I even tried to give it to her in a cup which she could drink from but was very messy......

Then someone had told me that breastfed babies can drink with a straw faster than babies who were solely bottle fed.

So I got one of those little rubbermaid drink things with the straw inside from Walmart......and she took it......! and I could squeeze it to get her to drink more milk then just sipping it.
She still drinks from this with her water.......and I got her some first year cups with straws and cover on it and she drinks all her milk from there.

Answer 2

My first child breastfed until she was 7 months (she just one day stopped on her own), and if I had known then what I know now I would have moved her to a sippy cup then, instead of to a bottle, it took me until she was 2 1/2 to get her off the bottle and onto a sippy cup, I had a problem with her because she didn't like the feeling of something hard in her mouth, so I looked around until I found a sippy cup with a soft spout, she took to it immediately. As for my son, who breastfed until a week before his first birthday, he wouldn't take a bottle to save his life, but about 6 months I started giving him a sippy cup with water or juice. By a year (when he was weaned) he went very WELL to a sippy cup (and can drink using a straw... in fact sometimes he preferrs a straw... he's at that age (at 17 months) where he likes to do things like a BIG person, so if he sees everyone else using straws he doesn't take his sippy cup, he wants a cup with a straw, even if he's drinking the SAME thing). So NO being breastfed will NOT slow children down in learning how to use the sippy cup (by the time my son was 10 months old I had him half using a cup half breastfeeding, so I knew when it was time to wean him we wouldn't have any difficulty making the switch). IT will be different from child to child, and it will also depend on your methods (and like my daughter the problem may be your child doesn't like the feel of the spout, Avent has sippy cups, with white tops that are flexible and a little more like a nipple, so they are a great stepping stone to regular hard spouted sippy cups, the spouts that Avent makes that are green are hard). I think I had a hard time with my daughter because I didn't know better, and now I do, so before my son even hit a year he was using a sippy cup like a pro!

Answer 3

I breastfed until my daughter was 12 mths but she started using a sippi cup at about 11 months and then by the time she was 15 months she was drinking from a cup with a straw.

Answer 4

MIne took a while. I introduces the sippy somewhere around 10 months and he wouldn't take it and when he was a bit over a year someone suggested using the Platex cups with the straw. He loved it. The only problem was that since he was still immature for it (it is suggested for ages 2 and up) he had fun turning it over and let the fluid drip out of the tiny airhole. Good thing I was only giving him water. He's almost 2.5 now and he drinks from those really well and all other sippy cups, too. He still like to make it drip, though.

Answer 5

Most children whether breastfed or bottle fed develop at different stages. My oldest was on a sippy cup at 6 months of age even though I was only able to breastfeed her fr the first three weeks after birth. My youngest child was on the sippy cup at 7 or 8 months of age and she was breastfed longer. It really is just when and how you introduce the sippy cup. But it is best to wait on straws until after they are at least 1 yr of age.

Answer 6

I've had three breastfed children. My first got bottles of expressed milk while I worked. My two girls never took bottles. I found that it was easier for all of them to pick up using a straw than using a cup that they had to tip up. We used those Rubbermaid "juiceboxes" with some water around 6 mos or so when they started solids that way they could have a couple of oz of water to wash their food down. The nice thing is, while they are getting the hang of the straw in those, you can give them a little squeeze to squirt some in their mouth and help them figure it out.

Answer 7

My son was breast fed up till two and only had a bottle twice, which he didn't really care for. He had no problems drinking out of a sippy cup from about 12 months and saved the breastfeading up for morning and bedtime and then just had the sippy cup with toddler milk and juice

Answer 8

My daughter was breastfed for a little over 11 months and she was about 7 or 8 months old before she got into the cup thing.

Answer 9

My daughter picked her sippy cup (two handled type) up at 6 months and drank right out of it! She is kind of messy with straws still (14 months). I use the Gerber cups with the double handle and the rubbery spout. I have also heard good things about Nuby cups. She never had bottles but took right to the cups.

Answer 10

I breastfeed for 6-7 month's and my daughter started using a sippy cup between 9-10 monthes.