Best Sippy Cups?

My daughter is 6 months old and she loves Nubby cups. They have a silicone top and they are really soft, she seems to like rubbing her gums on them also.

We use the Gerber cups but I also like the take and toss sippy cups when we are away from home. That way if I lose one I don't worry.

I myself have a baby starting off on sippy cups> i had bad experiences with advent with my son and recently tried Dr. Brown and LOVE them. They come in cool colors and have handles and way easy to clean compared to one others.

We started our daughter out with the Nuby cup and it was a disaster. She figured out that she could bite the spout and make it leak EVERYWHERE! After several days of soaked shirts, we decided to give the Playtex ones with the valves a try. The spout is hard, so she can't make it leak and the valve prevents spills if she throws it off the high chair (which she does all the time). I think it's truly a matter of trial and error. I would get a couple and see what works best for your child.

I agree...NUBY's all the way! and no valve to mess with!!!

That's great that you are trying at 7 months. I wish I had done that more. I swear by Nuby "3 stages" to start off with. Good luck. Hopefully she takes right away... if not, just keep with it. And maybe start off with water first and then move to milk.

My kids drank out of all different sippy cups. My advice is to pick one brand and stick with it. Then the lids and valves can be interchanged. We use Gerber.

A friend got us a "Got Milk" cup that had a base and handles that she could grab. She took to it right away and had very little problem with the handles. Our daughter is a strickly breastfed baby with very few bm bottles, so she was not used to holding a bottle, but it was not a problem with the handles.

I like the Gerber ones best. And the value is a heavier plastic its easier to clean then the playtex ones, and I have found they don't get eaten by the dishwasher or garbage disposal as often

My daughter instantly took to the Nuby ones with the soft spouts when she was 8 months old. We then transitioned her to the Nuby ones with the straw when she was about 18 months old.

I didn't read all your responses so sorry if this is a repeat. We have found that the best route is to work towards a sippy cup with a straw. It's easier for when you are out and forget their sippy and need to use a restaurants kids cup/straw. Some tips for the transition ... if your child drinks juice, buy the little Motts cardboard drink boxes with the straws (or any brand) when your child puts their mouth on the straw squeeze the box a little so some of the juice goes into their mouth. Then they know they will get something and will work at sucking. A occupational therapist told us this trick. We had to fill the drink box with water 'cause our little guy doesn't drink juice. After a few tries he started to get it and we had been trying for months with sippy cups. Prior to this he just wanted to bite on straws. And if we started with the sippy cups that had a straw he didn't understand to suck.

As for a actual brand ... Walmart has straw sippy cups that are spill proof. The straw tip is regular sized not extra big like the Nubys so they feel more like real straws. The Playtex ones aren't spill proof. There is no logo on the cup to tell me what brand it is, but I know its not Nuby or Playtex and I know I got them in two packs at Walmart.
Good Luck!!

I like the nubby cups with the straws. Eli never got the hang of the tippy cup because he never took a bottle so it was hard to learn to tip it back. He took to the straw very quickly.

When I introduced my son to sippy cups I used The Nuby sippy cups! They are similar to a bottle with nipple on them, they worked great and we never used a bottle again (he was 6 months old) When he started chewing on the nipples of the Nuby's I switched to regular sippy cups and never had a problem. I now have a one month old who I am hoping will transition into this phase as well as his big brother did. Now I just dont know how I will ever break my 15 month old of the sippy cup;)

I have had a lot of concern with the leaching of certain types of plastics in bottles and sippy cups. We started with the Nuby which my daughter broke pretty quickly. We now use the Safe Sippy and will soon introduce the Thermos Foogo (it is insulated for milk). Both are metal with safe plastic parts attached. We also used Avent Naturally for awhile but found the my daughter (now 11 months) was able to loosen the top to the point of leaking. I would suggest experimenting with a few. My daughter only played with the sippy until she was about 8 months when she really figured it out. Now she loves to have it with her all the time.

We tried a bunch! The Nuby's worked well with the soft spout but they do tend to leak if you don't get the top lined up just right.
The Gerber cups work well for us.
We weren't a fan of the Avent cups.

Just keep trying.....

In the beginning Nuby ones worked best for us. The nipple is really soft and you can even get them with a bottle nipple for transitioning (if you bottle feed). Now we use the Platex ones because they are pretty much leak proof. The Nuby ones my daughter figured out how to make them drip and enjoyed doing so very much. But they are pretty cheap and a great first sippy cup. I think the Platex ones are 2 for $7. So not too bad. If you run your dishwasher as much as I do, you can get away with only 5 or 6 cups.

The best first sippy hands down is the Nuby with the soft spout!!

My son loved the Nubby sippy cup and liked the Avent one as well. He also liked the playtex and gerber. I just bought one of each and let him see which one he liked best.

Nubi cups are great. Wal-Mart and Target sell them. The nipple is a similar feel to a bottle and they do well to drink from them--this hepos transition into other sippy cups later.

We found the Avent ones with the magic spout and handles to work best with our first and currently my 5 month old is starting with those and they seem to be working very well. My oldest also liked the Gerber soft spout ones, but the valve doesn't stay in very well. It's happened on all hte ones of that type that we have, so I think it's design, not specific to our cups.

Wow, I'm surprised so many people said Nuby. My son hated it. I love the First Years disposable cups. They are cheap, it doesn't matter if they get left behind, and there is no valve. The are a snap to clean. Our Gerber cup valves always get forgotten in the bottom of the sink and end up in the garbage disposal. The First Years cups are $2.99 for six so it's worth a try, at the very least for travel. They don't leak, either. They make different size and shaped cups for different ages, so be sure to start with the 4 oz. cups. They have ridges on the side for an easier grip.

We loved the Gerber ones that had the soft spout for her to suck on in the beginning it was kind of shaped like a flat thumb and had two handles which made it very easy for her to hold. I got them at babies r us. The next step Gerbers are my favorite we have the ones that change colors when the liquid is warm or cold, I got them at Target, they leak very little (you have to really try to get them to leak). We do not like the nuby ones we bought at Walmart as they leak like crazy but they only cost 98cents so I don't feel it was a total loss.

I always use the playtex ones...the cheap little ones always leak everywhere...

when we introduced the sippy cups, we went with gerber and playtex. my boys were both bottle fed, and had no trouble with the transition. GOOD LUCK!

My son has loved the nuby first stage ones with the soft spout since he was 6 months old. They do leak occasionally if not lined up right and now more that he throws it around a lot. I just recently switched to the next stage without handles and he is liking those too. The piece inside can go to slow or fast flow.

We started my boys on the Nuby Sippy's with the soft top. They're a couple dollars at Wal-mart. They work GREAT on transitioning baby! Also they are very easy to clean!! The only thing is, once they are older and stronger and start biting the top, you should switch to a hard top sippy. But it is GREAT for starting out! Good luck!

I just went though this and tryed many differnt cups. My daughter would not use any of the cups until I got her the Nuby's. Now that she is used to the Nuby's she will use the other cups. I think it's because the Nuby's spout is alot like a bottle nipple only shaped like a sippy. Now I am thinking about stopping using the Nuby's because she has learned how to turn them over and pound them on things and milk goes everywhere. Nuby's are cheap so it is worth a try. good luck I didn't get my daughter switched until she a a year so don't worry about rushing your daughter.