[KMH]

Claire is only a few days from her first birthday, and I'd like to start giving her milk in her sippy cup. The problem is, she drinks only about 10% and the other 90% she lets run out of her mouth and down her front. She has hard spout sippys, soft spouts, straws...pretty much every kind out there, and she does the same thing with all of them. How do I get her to actually swallow the liquid in her sippy?!?

[krislati]

Tommy does the same thing! Every time I give him a sippy cup he is wearing most of it. I think if you just keep offering it to her, she will eventually get it. I think they maybe getting too much at once and the spit it out. I wonder if there is sippy cups with a slower spout??

[Irish_Wristwatch]

Im no help Ross wont use a sippy, he just thinks its a toy and when i do help him drink from it the liquid comes out to fast and it upsets him, so I think we are going to be using bottles longer than I was hoping too

[hilachu]

Originally Posted by Irish_Wristwatch

Im no help Ross wont use a sippy, he just thinks its a toy and when i do help him drink from it the liquid comes out to fast and it upsets him, so I think we are going to be using bottles longer than I was hoping too

this is liam
i took out the rubber stopper in that keeps it from spilling everywhere to show him whats actually in it since we was just chewing on it before
he drank it when i held it for him but than he just played with after i stopped
which involved him watching the water spill out of the spout onto his pants and shirt

[Trish36]

I only give Miranda water in the sippy cup so far and she likes to sprinkle it all over my floor. That's the problem I find with all my kids, once they stop drinking from the bottle they stop drinking milk.

[KMH]

Well it makes me feel better to know that I'm not the only one!

I have made some pretty judgmental comments about parents who let their kids keep using a bottle past 1 yr, so I was thinking it was Karma I guess we'll keep working on it!

I have only ever put water in it before...I wonder if juice would entice her to swallow? I wasn't planning to give her juice.

[krystal g]

Try some juice or watered down juice. It may entice her enough to start actually drinking out of it. Once she gets the hang of it, just stop giving her the juice.

This is what we use (if you haven't tried it) and it's been the only one he's taken to. Cups and Spouts < Nûby? Products | Nûby? $2 at Walmart. They make this same one with handles but the top attaches differently and he actually kept pulling the spout out.

And Colby has been drinking out of a sippy for months now without problems...except for when he decides it's more fun to just let it run out. Or he flicks the spout and gets milk all over everything. So it's not just her that makes a mess.

[hilachu]

Originally Posted by krystal g

Try some juice or watered down juice. It may entice her enough to start actually drinking out of it. Once she gets the hang of it, just stop giving her the juice.

This is what we use (if you haven't tried it) and it's been the only one he's taken to. Cups and Spouts < Nûby? Products | Nûby? $2 at Walmart. They make this same one with handles but the top attaches differently and he actually kept pulling the spout out.

And Colby has been drinking out of a sippy for months now without problems...except for when he decides it's more fun to just let it run out. Or he flicks the spout and gets milk all over everything. So it's not just her that makes a mess.

i tried this one too, the one with the handles
just chews on it
ive tried the juice/water combo
no luck either
=)

[KMH]

Yep, we have the same cup...the small one with the handles, AND the big one without the handles. Same results as the other cups

[Lisigirl13]

Melanie is actually the opposite she refuses bottle but has no prob with sippy cups now.

At first she had a hard time with them but I started using these and they have been great plus they don't spill!

Philips AVENT BPA Free Training Cup - 4 Months + - Avent - Babies "R" Us

I introduced it slowly we would give her some water after she had finished her meals. She won't take juice tho only water and we have not tried milk yet.

[mommydiva]

Rosie was that way too. I do know if I give her the Nuby one we have its all over. She does better with the hard spout. It lessened the more I gave it to her. Now I fill it up and hand it to her she goes to it throughout the day. I think over time she just got used to it and learned how to control it a bit better. The main one we use is this one The First Sipster®, Playtex® sippy cup, baby cup, training | Cups & Mealtime

[hilachu]

Originally Posted by mommydiva

Rosie was that way too. I do know if I give her the Nuby one we have its all over. She does better with the hard spout. It lessened the more I gave it to her. Now I fill it up and hand it to her she goes to it throughout the day. I think over time she just got used to it and learned how to control it a bit better. The main one we use is this one The First Sipster®, Playtex® sippy cup, baby cup, training | Cups & Mealtime

liam has that one too
loves to just gnaw on it

[mommydiva]

yeah at first thats all she did. And she still does...lol But this one don't leak all over like the nuby. No leak my behind..lol Although looking at the site I see they have better ones..lol

[krsnow]

I'm having the same problem with Joey, he spills most of it & chews on the spout. I have been thinking about trying watered down juice. Also I tried the small Nuby with the handles and leaks easily if you don't put it together perfectly tight, and they didn't come with lids which makes traveling hard. I always fill up a sippy cup for the diaper bag before going out so I need a lid. I have had better luck with the Nuk: http://www.nuk-usa.com/products/c-10$p-68/learner-cup-silicone.aspx