sippy cup advice please

[deaconblue]

Finally I must get ds (16months) onto a blinkin cup. He drinks water from the basic tommee tippee cup but is useless with anything you have to suck hard on. Trouble is it doesn't hold enough liquid for me to give him his milk in it. Anyone know of a similar cup which will hold about 200ml???

Oh yeah, mines also a bath water guzzler!!

The only thing is like mummy magic says, if its a comfort thing it will be much harder going cold turkey, the older he gets. Now presume he is still in a cot, but imagine the upping and downing if you did it once he went into a bed!

But you don't always have to go cold turkey of course. There are ways of doing things more gently (and waiting til they are ready too). Or it can a fun new stage!

tommee tippee do a bigger cup with a flip up spout which is free flowing - its the 'kids on the go' range. I have seen them in Boots and my local Morrisons

Super Sipper

Great minds Seona! I have just bought that kotg cup fror my DD who still insists on bedtime milk from anyway up cup. Each time I have tried a 'normal' cup its ended up all over the bed. She drinks from normal cups during the day but milk around bedtime is different

tried the tommee tippee cup this morning and got "nonononononono", vigorous head shaking and a finale of the cup being chucked across the room. So I caved and put it in the bottle. Realised the cup actually holds 190ml so could use it for full milk feed. Am determined that tomorrow morning I will be tougher. Might stick to bottle for bedtime for a while yet.

Maybe he actually needs the sucking still at bedtime/morning? I know my 21 month old really needs to breastfeed morning & bedtime - I mean for comfort - tho he doesn't during the day. I think a lot of tosh is talked about getting them off the bottle tbh. Sucking is still a pretty prime comfort thing at this age otherwise we wouldn't see so many with dummies would we?

Fwiw mine is happy with sippy cup or sigg bottle during the day but less so first/last thing - sometimes we alternate so he has a bit of sippy and a bit of breast - that could be a way to go with the bottle too!

that might be a kinder, slower way to do it. I think it's meant to be bad for their teeth but he sucks on the bottle for only a few minutes to down a whole lot of milk. It's more the worry about cleaning a teat properly while we are abroad that's motivating me to get him off the bottle. At the moment I wash in very hot water nad then sterilise. Anal, I know, but he's a PFB!

This might sound idiotically obvious but couldn't you clean his teeth after the milk?

I could but I selfishly like how dopey and ready for sleep he is after the milk. Had some success this morning though. Took the lid off the tommee tippee cup and he had about half his usual amount sipping from the rim like a big boy. No tears or chucking of cup so progress made. Baby steps but feel pleased we're getting towards bottle free life.