Sippy Cup Help

Same problem here. Her doctor suggested the soft nipple sippy cups. My oldest child also had the same problem and she learned on the straw sippy cups.

I had the same problem with my little girl. The doc suggested I try letting her drink out of a straw. low and behold that worked. Now she drinks out of "straw" sippy cups.

Try letting her drink out of a regular straw 1st and see if she can get the hang of it before you go out and spend more money on another sippy cup ;).

I also had the same problem, but used a regular straw to teach them the sucking difference. Then transferred to the sippys with a straw. It worked really well. If she doesn't know how to drink out of a straw put the straw in the drink, cover the top with your finger and let her suck out of the bottom with the drink right there. This way there really isn't any sucking action needed, but she'll get the idea. Good luck

I used Advent and Nuby sippy cups to transition from the bottle. They are both great.

I went through alot of sippy cups with my son. There is one that is carried through Walmart and Target called Nuby that has a nice grip and soft lid for infants just learning to drink out of a cup.

When my daughter was a baby, she got constipated too. My pediatrician told me to add dark corn syrup to her bottle of formula to relieve it. Add about a tablespoon per 4-6 ounce bottle. It worked. Eventually she would drink juice from a cup. This too shall pass; just give her time.

Have you tried the Nubi (I think that's the name) sippy cups? They have the sport bottle ones that have what looks to me like a nipple on the top. My daughter started out on them because it was more like a bottle then I moved her to different cups after she got used to that. It's different cause it's not a bottle, but still more like one than a regular cup. It's worth a shot.

what I did at about 9-10 months was put milk in an advent sippy cup. it has a soft lid that my Alex adapted very quickly to. She was used to the dimensions of the Advent bottle and knew that milk was in the cup now, so the transition to juice in a cup was made only after she got used to milk in the cup. hope that helps.

You may want to try something different than a sippy cup. I have two suggestions. The first is use one of the small plastic white coffee creamer cups that you get from a restaurant. They can be re-used over and over. They only hold about a teaspoon of drink, but your daughter might enjoy drinking out of it. She will get practice that way but you will have to refill it for her several times. The next suggestion is this. Give her a regular-sized drinking cup and at first put only about a teaspoon of drink in it for her. Once she is able to drink that without making a mess, gradually increase the amount you put into the cup. It will take some patience from you, but your daughter will enjoy the undivided attention she is getting from you and this will encourage her to make progress.

Hey there! I feel your pain. These "battles" are always fun :-) Bottom line, she will take and hold the cup or bottle (which should disappear by age 1) if she wants what's in it bad enough. Wouldn't you like to sit there at your desk and have someone hold your drink for you whenever you got thirsty?? Make her work for her juice...better yet, does she really even need it? It's pretty much just concentrated sugar. You can avoid the constipation issue by upping her whole grains/fiber through cereals and actual fruit. We used the Avent brand of sippies and they worked well as they had a soft nipple not unlike a bottle nipple. Also, putting milk in the cup so she has something very familiar in it might help with the transition too. Best wishes!!

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Hey K.,

You said that you've tried different ones. There is one that has a soft nipple. It is clear but is about the same texture as a bottle nipple. Have you tried that one?

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Hello K.,
If she is holding her own Milk bottle, she probably does not like the particular "juice" you are giving her, might be the smell or the taste, with mine it was the smell, they(twins) smelled EVERYTHING before they ate or drank it. You may want to talk to her doctor too, my daughters' ped doctors told them ( I have 3 daughter, 3 granddaughters!) do not give them a lot of juice & ask "what" should you do for the "stopping up" problem too. If the juice is okay, then try changing the type, but only introduce a different one every other week...in case of allergy. Apple, grape, cherry,juicy juice flavors, these may need to be diluted too. Hope it helps, C.

Put her juice in her bottle.

Try a spill proof cup (near the sippy cups in the store) that uses a straw!! My son REFUSED the sippy cup but loved the straw cups!!

My son who is now 2 1/2 wouldn't use a sippy cup until he was 1 year old and then only when I played hardball and took the bottles away over a weekend...Now I can't get him to use a cup though at daycare he does...go figure. I think sometimes they're smarter than us and like to see us work for them and fret over it.

hi there. do you have a walmart near by? if you do then go to where they have there sippy cups. they should have these cheep cup with a clear (total rubber) nipple. some are even similar to a bottle nipple, but most of them are like a sippy cup nipple. buy one of those and see how your little girl takes to it. my little made the transition very easily.(when i found those) before he wouldn't even try the other ones.
hope i helped.
and good luck
B.

K.,
My older daughter never took a sippy cup, and i bought all kinds! I did what you did, take the little stopper out of the lid, but no luck. We went stright to a cup. Yes you will have to hold it for her to drink but it beats having to take a sippycup away later in life. good luck to you.

I know this may sound silly, but have you thought about trying to find white bottles? In other words, instead a clear bottle with milk inside, it still LOOKS like milk is in it?

My son wasn't very good at holding the sippy cup until after he was 12 months old. Our kitchen looked like a testing site for sippy cups. We tried so many different ones. He would only use the Playtex cups consistently. Good Luck!
E.

Try the Nuby cups. My son is 16 months and still won't use the cups with the hard spouts.

Have you tried the sippy with a straw? That is the only kind I could get my son to take for a long time. My daughter did best with the ones with the soft silicone spout. The Nuby brand worked great until she got used to the regular ones.

I had problems getting my son to take milk out of a sippy cup. He takes juice from a cup no problem, but only would take the milk from a bottle. He's 15 months. After trying many different cups with silicon tops, I finally gave him a cup that has a silicon straw. I think it must be the same kind of sucking. Anyway, he took it with NO PROBLEMS!! After months of trying milk in a sippy cup, the straw made the difference. I weaned him completely of his bottle in just one try using the cup with straw. Babies R Us have a ton to choose from.

Good luck!