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which cup should i choose?

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lizandlulu · 03/07/2007 20:15

i am about to change my dd night time bottle for a beaker but i dont know which to choose. she is 20months old and i know she is too old for a bottle, and i have only just got her on to cows milk, but i have now decided to take the plunge and get her drinking milk from a beaker. she only drinks water in a daytime, and the beaker has a hard spout, and i wanted to get a soft spout one to make the change more gradual. i would appreciate any feedback from others who have done the same, and any reccomendations on the cup? thanks.

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plowder · 03/07/2007 23:43

Bare(sp) with me here ..
my ds is disabled and the nursery he went to used this cup I ending up buying half a dozen and when I took him to my mother and toddlers groups a lot of the other mothers started to use 'my' doidy cup and swore by it, as did my sister. It is perfect for starting out with, the thing is you don't have a lid and somehow it makes the bottle to cup transition easier.

plowder · 03/07/2007 23:44

ps, I am not suggesting your dd needs a special cup, its just a great cup.

LyraB · 03/07/2007 23:46

The Avent Magic Cup is great. it has a soft spout and a removable valve which makes it non-spill. Both my boys used these.

olivo · 04/07/2007 08:27

my dd is 10 months and for the last few months we have been looking for a beaker for her to use for water. we must have tried about 7, most of them having some sort of valve system to make them non-spill but making it very hard to get anything out IMO (i tried them all myself!) then we got a doidy cup and its fab. she needs help with it but will at least drink. the alternative with a nice soft spout is the tommy tippee easy flow but again, i found it needed quite a strong suck!

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lizandlulu · 04/07/2007 09:16

i wanted something that looked like a bottle in shape, really. yes i like an easy life!! but the doidy cup is worth a try. not sure if i will get one in town though. thanks for the suggestions.

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Tatat · 04/07/2007 09:41

You can get spouts to fit avent products, so that you can put one on a bottle instead of a teat. Your lo can get used to that, then you can progress to the spout on an avent cup. Well that's the theory

I'm pretty sure they do soft ones well maybe not as soft as a teat but def softer than normal plastic.

LyraB · 04/07/2007 11:46

Yes, the soft spouts on the Avent Magic Cup also fit in Avent bottlrs so you can mix and match. And they can be used with or without the non-spill valve.

witchandchips · 04/07/2007 11:59

Another option is to give her warm milk out of an ordinary mug. Is special and grown up and as you will help her drink from it, she gets cuddling time with you as well

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lizandlulu · 04/07/2007 13:24

she doesnt like cuddling!! i have just bought an avent bottle to cup training beaker which looks ok. i will try this evening to see what she makes of it!!

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witchandchips · 04/07/2007 15:40

think the easiest way to get doidy cups is online either from the NCT or from the company that make bikkiepegs click here

olivo · 04/07/2007 17:00

pack of two doidy cups £7 from blooming marvellous, or they sell them singly in their shops.
will be interested to hear how she does with the avent - let us know!

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lizandlulu · 04/07/2007 17:38

i just bought a doidy cup off of ebay. it was £4.50 delivered.

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tassis · 04/07/2007 18:07

john lewis sells doidy cups

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lizandlulu · 07/07/2007 22:01

i apologise, but it was a tommy tippee cup that i bought, not an avent one, and im not getting on with it very well. it has a flip top lid, and when i give her her night time milk in it, she faffs and farts around with the lid and chews on the spout, so it takes ages to get any down her and she ends up drinking less than usual, then waking up in the night, hungry. im going to have to invest in another type of cup. oh and im still waiting for my doidy cup to arrive!!

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sparklygothkat · 07/07/2007 22:09

Doidy cups are great, I also used them for dd1 who is disabled and ended up using them for dd2. I have 2 in my cupboard which I will use for baby when its big enough

CantSleepWontSleep · 07/07/2007 22:10

I can empathise lal. The playtex first sipster is the only cup that my dd (17 months) will drink from. Unfortunately, there are both soft spouted and hard spouted versions, and at the moment no-one is selling the soft spouted one in the UK (the UK distributor informs me that the ones being sold by Toys R Us are soft spouted, but they have been out of stock for ages ). If you have any contacts in the US, they are apparently quite easy to get hold of over there. We are currently waiting to hear back from a US e-bay seller to see if theirs are soft or hard.

If you do manage to find them anywhere, they are the best cup we have found by far (and we tried a LOT of cups!).

Dd is also still breastfed btw, and I am keen to get another soft spouted cup (got our original one from a baby show) to try and help to wean her off her bedtime feed.

CantSleepWontSleep · 07/07/2007 22:11

Sorry, not sure why I said 'also breastfed'. I was thinking you had said that your dd was, but I am muddling this thread with the last one I was on!

JoMa · 07/07/2007 22:14

I'd vote for Doidy cups, as do the last 3 generations of my family

busybaby · 07/07/2007 22:18

We had difficulty changing dd over - she just wouldn't drink a drop unless it was from a bottle! Then I found a soft spout 'transition bottle/beaker' in Superdrug. It's their own make and about £2.99, if I remember correctly. It isn't non-spill so it's easy to get the milk too and it had removeable handles. They come in pink/purple or blue/green.

We had to make the holes in dd's bottle teats nice and big so she got the milk quicker for a week or so before we changed to this 'beaker' which seemed to help her get used to the change in flow. She has a tongue-tie though and struggled to suck properly so that might have been why it helped her - others might not need it.

Good luck.

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lizandlulu · 08/07/2007 16:07

i have just been to asda and got another tommee tippee one, but its called 'kids on the go'. its bottle shaped and with a really soft teat type spout. now im wondering why i am bothering with all this bottle to beaker stuff!! there is hardly any difference between her usual bottle and the one ive just bought, except a slight difference in the shape of the spout. i suppose its just cause she is 20 months old and should not be having a proper 'bottle'.

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nct73 · 10/07/2007 10:00

Another vote for doidy. Bought from babyzoop for £3.70 inc postage as linked by plowder. LO has been drinking water from it from 5 months old. Needs help but holds handles and is really good at drinking plenty of water. Has one at nursery too. Is only 7 months so still breast feeding in morning and doing milk feeds in afternoon & at bedtime by standard bottle. What age did you start doing milk transition to beaker? Would people advise soft spouted in between? I like the sound of the superdrug one CSWS mentioned.

BirdyArms · 10/07/2007 10:50

I'd go for an attractive cup or mug at this age rather than worrying about the type of spout. I moved ds1 from a bottle to a beaker at a similar age and it turned out not to be a big deal at all. I bought a tommee tippee cup with a hard spout and pretty pictures. I'd bigged the new cup up so much he insisted on sleeping with it the first few nights.

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lizandlulu · 10/07/2007 19:23

i have only just started to use a beaker for milk and she is 20 months old. she previousley used a normal bottle. my doidy cup arrived yesterday and she can drink out of it well, until she turns it around and trys to drink out of the 'short' side! then spills it all down her front. im not brave enough to try it for bedtime yet. i know that it is probably more my issue than hers, but we will get there in the end.

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