I've tried everything! He's eats table food very well, has no problem being spoon-fed and likes using his fingers to feed himself. He just turned a year old and I've already been trying for a few months to get him to use a sippy cup and I've even tried offering the cup w/o the sip-spout thinking he might want to do it the way he sees the rest of us. No luck. I didn't have this problem with my first and I know that all babies do things at their own pace --should I just lay off for a while, is he just not ready?
Suggestions from parents who went through similar experience much appreciated!
2007-02-20 03:18:27 · 16 answers · asked by mamabunny 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
I would try to just keeping offering it to him. You might not want to offer him a bottle if you are because some kids realize that they till still get a bottle. I run and in home day care and the mother told me that doctor wanted her child off the bottle by 15 months old. I would just fix the formula that we had left and put it in the sippy cup and he got used to using one. He has taking a sippy cup every since. You might need to hold the cup up for him to get a drink out of it because he might not know to hold it up. Good Luck!!
2007-02-20 03:26:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would try one more option before laying off for awhile, because it is true, babies do things when they are ready! Have you tried the sippy cups with the soft tips that seem like bottles but are really sippy cups? Those seem to be a great transitional cup for parents who are having a hard time switching! Hope this helps!
2007-02-20 11:22:31 · answer #2 · answered by crazeegirl79 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter had a hard time with it too. My doctor finally told me to not put milk in the cup, rather offer her juice and water only from it. Try giving it to him once a day, let's say at breakfast. Then everyday, only offer the cup at breakfast until he gets used to it. Once he does, offer it to him more. If you are using the sippy cups with the hard spouts, try switching to the soft spout (the ones made out of silicone). That way it's more like a bottle and even if they don't suck on it, they can chew on it and the drink will still come out. My daughter is a little over one and refuses to drink out of the hard tip ones still! Good luck!
2007-02-20 11:25:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Continue to offer the sippy cup at each meal and try something really good in it--juice, chocolate milk, etc. Also, I assume he is still on a bottle, if so, don't give anything other than water in the bottle and he will probably make the switch to the cup.
2007-02-20 11:23:16 · answer #4 · answered by jilldaniel_wv 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get smaller cups, their little arms are not that strong yet, get a cup about twice the size of a shot glass, well a plastic light weight shot glass would probably work (because they might be easier to find- the once i used my mom found from tupperware) at anyrate just put about a teaspoon of their favorite juice in there. so they can get the idea with out the fear of gagging, remember their gag reflexes are still pretty strong at this age.
To be honest with you my two year old only drinks out of cups at meal time... hes been able to for a while now but i choose to give him a sippy cup through the rest of the way just because my carpet likes it that way :P
2007-02-20 11:39:38 · answer #5 · answered by chrystal_lynn2002 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son was a preemie and I had a hard time getting him to use one too. I bought the Nuby bottles that have the leak-proof silicone nipples that are shaped like a sippy cup spout. After a few months using those he took a sippy cup just fine. You can get them at Walmart or Target.
2007-02-20 11:23:56 · answer #6 · answered by Ryan's mom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I want you to drive a standard shift vehicle today, now.! Are you gonna do it? No. You're not ready.
Kids will mimic kids faster than they will mimic adults. It will happen. Always leave the sippy cup around within the childs reach and have water in it. They will reach for it and experiment in their own time.
Stop trying to make this one the same as the other one. It is not a production line thing. These are individual units, so let them be individual.
2007-02-20 11:34:39 · answer #7 · answered by ButwhatdoIno? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put something better tasting in the sippy than in the bottle. Water down heavily the same item in the bottle that you are offering in the sippy cup, the baby will go for the better tasting drink.
2007-02-20 11:22:02 · answer #8 · answered by Heather Y 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let your child play with cups in the bathtub.
Get one of those bottles with the change over sippy cup tops. Advent I think makes them. You pop out the nipple and exchange it for a sippy cup type top.
2007-02-20 13:04:13 · answer #9 · answered by babypocket2005 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get his favorite cartoon cup,fill it about one inch full. Put his favorite ice cream mixed with milk don't mix it up very well. The cup makes him fell special,and the non-mixed ice cream will be fun becauce the milk will slightly mix with the ice cream and he just might think it's fun to get the ice cream to slid down! then when you refill it put a little more milk and then after two times put water in a cup with frozen kool-aid cubs big enough he can't swallow. He will be amazed at the diffrent colors. and soon he will be going to the freezer for a CUP! Good Luck this is a very good way to reward and succsess
2007-02-20 11:50:10 · answer #10 · answered by Prescilla S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋