When should DD be drinking from a cup??

[Thankyouandgoodnight]

She's 16 months and drinks from a sippy cup / beaker thing and has her milk in a bottle (flow from a beaker ends up with her convered in milk and is a disaster but with water in the day she's fine!).

Do you just keep offering them a cup and if so how often until they get the hang of it and have a beaker on hand so they can actually have a drink?

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[pippylongstockings]

Not sure I will be much help - my DS1 can dring from a cup and I guess has been able to for about a year but still asks for a tomy tippee cup often as that's what his brother has. DS2 I haven't tried with an open cup at all yet unless with supervision and a straw! That way straw more interesting than tipping cup of water all over self.

[pippylongstockings]

BTW DS1 is 3 and DS2 is 16 months

[NappiesGalore]

just offer a cup and eventually they get the hang of it.
but you know what? dont stress about it. shes hardly going to be drinking from a bottle and sippy cup when she goes to secondary school is she? she'll ditch em when shes ready.

[Thankyouandgoodnight]

I agree but it suddenly occurred to me that unless I actually offer her a cup, she's never going to learn. We do straws and sports bottles and ordinary water bottles etc but the cup thing is SO WET and always ends up in new clothes!! I don't think she is realising why she gets wet and she doens't seem to understand about tipping her head back with the glass, she just tips it in to her. Is she still too young do you think or is this just how it is?

[LaVieEnRose]

have you seen these?

[lilolilmanchester]

Just keep offering cup til she gets the hang of it. My DCs were both BF& I went back to work when they were 7 months. BF morning and night, cups at nursery during the day, neither ever had a bottle on the basis it was as easy (or hard!) to get them on to a cup as on to a bottle.

[Dynamicnanny]

When working at nursery we had most of our one year olds drinking out of tommy tippy beakers with no lids before their 2nd birthday often starting them around 16 months, but obviuosly with only a bit of water/milk in and slowly adding more as they got better at holding it = yes they had accidents with it but 9 times out of 10 they drank properly. Then in the 2 year old room they would have beakers with no lids obviously, and no handles.

[wahwah]

I don't know if it's any help or not, but my son just couldn't manage drinking from a cup without spilling most of it until he was about 17 / 18 months old and to be truthful, we couldn't be bothered with the mess. At 17 / 18 months he just 'got it' on the fortnightly occasion we offered a cup and has been very able ever since.

I tend to get slightly anxious about these things, but my husband is v. relaxed and his mantra seems to be 'well he'll be / not be doing that when he's 5, 10, 15, whatever...' and so far it seems to be a good strategy.

[chrissnow]

You're quite lucky in that it's nearly summer . . . you can put him outside with a cup of water. If he spills it - no biggy. He'll get the hang of it!! For what its worth. DD1 was on a cup at about 16/17 months. dd2 is 20 months and I think she can kind of manage a cup, but generally she doesn't get one unsupervised as I can't run around monitoring cups etc with the 2 of them (dd1 is almost 3). Yes I am a lazy mom, but as has been posted earlier neither of them will be drinking from a bottle at secondary (or primary) school, so I'll take it slow and keep my floors dry for a few years yet!!

[chrissnow]

Sorry put her outside. You have a dd of course . . . . (oops)

[TeeBee]

Have you tried a doidy cup? The lip is slanted so that they can see the liquid coming towards them. Bit easier for them I think.

[Thomcat]

My DD is 2 yr 4 months and absolutely refuses point blank to the point of having a paddy sometimes, to drink her 'hot milk' from anything other than a 'baby bottle'. Water she'll have from a cup but never, ever milk. I've given up worrying about it, not that I worried much for any length of time. She has it first thing in the morning and last thing at night, and has a dummy. She'll drop them all in her own time. This is one battle I've chosen not to have with her!

Never had this problem with DD1 and hope to avoid it with DD3 but DD2 can crack on till she's ready imo.

[kay1981]

Thomcat, my DS (21m) is exactly the same, will NOT, under any circumstances, drink anything warm from a cup, he has a full bottle morning and night, so when do you decide that bottles are out and cups are in - no matter what?

xx

[kay1981]

Oh and how do you warm milk in a sippy cup if microwaves are so evil?

xx

[Thomcat]

I'll let her decide when bottles are out I think and crack on using microwaves!