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Wheelymate
20 yrs ago
when do you introduce a sippy cup? only when you introduce solids? i saw that avent has training spouts for 3m+ onwards. is it a good idea to train them early? my cousin was still having a bedtime bottle at the age of 7!!
my 21 week old is on formula and i give him sips of water between feeds to prevent constipation. i am wondering if it is a good time to introduce him to the cup when i feed him water.
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some people go by the general rule of milk only in a bottle and everything else in a sippy cup.
My daughter started on her water from a sippy cup at 8 months. (once she regularly had solids.) I don't know if it is necessary to get your son started now (more money for the manufacturers) and maybe waiting a bit longer is okay.
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I started around 5 months and by 7 to 8 months he would hold the cup himself and drink everything from his cup on his own.
I am still bf but if I am not there during the day as I am working he has his milk from a cup.
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Kimmi
20 yrs ago
I think its a good idea to start with a sippy cup around the age of 6 months. They will refuse it at first, but keep trying. Fill it with water or milk only. Its good to get them used to holding a cup too. Ideally you want them to be off the bottle by one year.
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Mine has never refused. Right from the beginning she liked it. Of course, she has been surprised at first but then when she understood how it works, the problem was more about making her stop playing/drinking with it... I've began quite late... Something around 7-8 months I think when she could begin to grap the cup to drink (with my help, of course)
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thanks....
i might try to offer him a sippy cup for water when he turns 6 months.
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MayC
20 yrs ago
I read from many books that your baby doesn't need water if he/she is only drinking milk (without solids). Mine was such a poor milk drinker that I refrained from giving her water. My husband's HK chinese family kept insisting on giving her water but I wouldn't have it. So until she started solids, sippy cup wasn't an issue.
When I did start her on solids, she did get her water from sippy cups. I have followed the general rule that bottles are for milk and sippy cups are for everything else. Surprisingly when I feed her milk through the sippy cup, she gulps it much faster.... but I'm trying not to do that otherwise she's gonna want to choose what goes IN her sippy cup.
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mayc,
thanks for your post, interested to know your take since our kids seems to have the same milk drinking issues! :)
i give water throughout the day, little sips only (that works out to about 60ml overall). if total bf, i understand water is not needed. but for formula, books like miriam stoppard suggests water for formula fed babies to prevent consipation. i do it just for a piece of mind, bad enough feeding him when he is not constipated, can you imagine how he will fight the bottle if i want him to drink and his tummy is clogged up with days of poo!?!
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MayC
20 yrs ago
Hi Wheeylymate,
Just wanted to say that my little girl was on expressed breastmilk for 10 months.
I cannot remember whether or not the books I read were talking about milk in general or on breastmilk so you could be right :-)
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