Does your baby drink from a cup/sippy cup?

[Auraji]

DD is almost 9 months and she's not into the cups at all. She has sometimes drank water from my cup and she'll take a FEW sips from her sippy cup, but mostly she just plays with it and chews on it.

I havent really offered breastmilk from it, since I dont pump, but I've offered mostly water. One or two times I offered watered down apple juice.

[GoestoShow]

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Edited by GoestoShow - 1/4/11 at 9:18am

[Comtessa]

DD (8 mo) will only drink water out of my glass; she hasn't gotten the hang of a sippie cup yet. She's really good with a "real" cup though, practically doesn't spill at all. I try to remember to offer her sips of water at every meal. Otherwise her only beverage is mama milk.

[curious&eager]

My DS loves drinking water from my cup, but he's not figured out the sippy yet, but he's younger, 7 months.

[tessie]

She picked it up quickly and was a pro by about eight months. At 14 months she likes a straw cup best or a normal cup (with supervision). Some like them, some don't. We tried a few different kinds before we found what worked for her best (one without a valve).

Some babies prefer using doidy cups.

[Punchy Kaby]

My DD loves sippy cups (she is a pro at them now), she sees other kids at daycare using them and has to have one of her own. She just gets water (no juice), she has a bottle for breastmilk. She also likes to take sips out of our cups at meal times, but mostly it spills on her shirt.

[Blueone]

My son thinks the sippy cup is a chew toy. All he does is chew on it. So when we eat I offer him water out of a small cup and he does much better with that!

[azohri]

Originally Posted by Blueone

My son thinks the sippy cup is a chew toy. All he does is chew on it. So when we eat I offer him water out of a small cup and he does much better with that!

We bought our 7 month old some tiny cups from ikea (actually meant to be shot glasses I think!) that are the perfect size for his hands, although I do help by keeping a hand on it.

[honeybunmom]

My 10 mos old son has mastered his sippy cup. He started using it in the last month or so. Loves, loves, loves to drink water from it. I had to give it to him when he started wanting my water. When we were struggling with the bottle (I work full-time), he would have nothing to do with it. I do wonder if I should start putting his milk in the sippy as I will stop pumping when he turns 1. I took the bottle away from dd at 1 without any problems (but getting her to drink milk is still a challenge). I just couldn't stand to give her anything in a bottle. As a nursing mother, it actually made my cry! LOL!

[CanBoo]

DD2 (8mos this week) does better with a straw then a sippy.
She started to use one around 6 months when I was distracted and gave her DD1's water.

She loves when we help her drink chicken broth in a shot glass too.

No juice for babies here though. Unnecessary sugar. DD1 started to have juice around 2 only, and it is still not a regular occurrence to drink juice around the house.

[mkksmom]

Straw cups are better for them, so I'd focus on that. If LO never masters a sippy, it's no big deal.

[imalego]

My almost 9 month old DS doesn't. I haven't ever offered one though. Looking at the replies, it looks like I'm running behind!

[CanBoo]

Originally Posted by imalego

My almost 9 month old DS doesn't. I haven't ever offered one though. Looking at the replies, it looks like I'm running behind!

I would not worry about the schedule. I just happened to do it by accident and found out that it makes DD2 so happy. Keeps her busy a few minutes while dd1 can get some mommy time

[nervousmommy]

Straw cups are better for them, so I'd focus on that. If LO never masters a sippy, it's no big deal.

Why?

[Vegan Princess]

My 12 month old rarely drinks more than a few sips also. I did buy a straw sippy that has no valve and that works the best so far. She had issues figuring out to tip the sippies and most other straw sippies you have to bite and suck at the same time. This one you just have to suck. Easy peasy. She also drinks from a cup but spills a lot of it. She never drinks very much out of anything though. And she is refusing a bottle. Just wants to nurse.

Cindy

[Ruthie's momma]

Originally Posted by Auraji

DD is almost 9 months and she's not into the cups at all. She has sometimes drank water from my cup and she'll take a FEW sips from her sippy cup, but mostly she just plays with it and chews on it.

I havent really offered breastmilk from it, since I dont pump, but I've offered mostly water. One or two times I offered watered down apple juice.

The ability to drink from a sippy cup has nothing to do with reaching any sort of developmental milestone. As such, sippy cups are quite overrated (IMO). They are usually nothing more than a convenience type-of-item for parents (in that they are handy for reducing spills).

Plus, your LO may prefer to use a straw cup (I know that my LO did ). Munchkin and Rubbermaid straw cups are BPA free, inexpensive, fairly easy to clean, and relatively leak proof (if you will be carrying one in your handbag).

More importantly, introduce a regular cup to your LO. Allow her to sip from a tiny amount of water, BM, diluted juice, etc. She will start to figure it out rather quickly.

[CookAMH]

My 9mo has been practicing with a cup for about 4 mo. He isn't too bad at it (well, doesn't hold it or tip it or control how much) but he can swallow some of the liquid and some dribbles out, but he really likes to do it. I give him water or more recently, watered down coconut milk. He does better when there is a taste to what he's drinking.

He won't take a sippy cup as yet. It'll be nice if he would for when we're out later on, but he might take to it in a couple of months.

[blumooned]

My 9.5mo gets some water out - he prefers the one w/o the valve. He also enjoys chewing on them.

Originally Posted by mkksmom

Straw cups are better for them, so I'd focus on that. If LO never masters a sippy, it's no big deal.

Just wondering, why are straw cups better? We have one but LO can't get the hang of it - he tips it up like the other ones.

[catters]

DD is 8 months and never took a bottle, so I've been giving her BMilk or water in a sippy since about six months. She only likes the soft spout nuby one, the green sprouts with the flip top, or the avent trainer cup (both the green sprout and the avent one have a sort of flat spout, she seems to like that the most) The kid's picky...

[j_p_i]

Yes, DD has been drinking from a sippy for awhile - maybe since 5 or 5.5 months? She's 8 months now. Never took a bottle with breastmilk in it, and we got a sippy cup as a gift and decided to try it. She wound up loving it! She also loves drinking water from our cups. At times she will just chew on the top of a sippy cup, I think when her teeth are bothering her. But she also uses both hands and tips her head back to drink from it.