Cup for DD, almost 1

[DeeBlindMice]

Can anyone recommend a good cup for a baby?

We have a baby cup with one of those lids with a spout, and DD drinks water from it. The spout and lid are both hard plastic.

Mostly we give her the cup without the lid on.

She will drink a little but then starts shaking it around by the handles and water goes everywhere.

Recently she's started using plastic tubs in the bath to drink bathwater (I know, I know ) and it has occurred to me that what would really work for her is a cup with no handles, i.e. a plain beaker.

I thought it would be easy to find such a thing, but apparently not - a lot of them are too tall, so she has to tip it right up to get the water out and then too much comes at once.

I'm getting tempted to use the old plastic tub she plays with in the bath, since that works so well for her, although it might even cross my embarrassment threshold to have my daughter drinking out of an old cosmetics tub

Help! Are cups another one of those baby things where you could do a doctoral thesis on the choices available, or is this an easy, decision with only a small number of options?

A Doidy cup? Just supervise when she uses it and don't let her fling it round. Another one to try could be Steady Cup. It doesn't take them long to get competent and learn not to spill them.

I am a bit anal about only having drinks in the kitchen though. I've never let my DS drag a sippy cup round with him everywhere.

The bath water drinking is still going on in our house (1.5 years later!).

Doidy cups are great. Aitch always swore by a shot glass, but I could never bring myself

Do all Doidy cups have handles? Is my dream of a handle-free future just that, an unattainable fantasy ?

DH approves of the shot glass suggestion. Apparently he was thinking of that the other day, but the only ones he saw were the very narrow, tall ones.

DD only has drinks sitting in her high chair.

Good to know the bathwater drinking isn't just something DD is forced to do because of a lack of adequate cups in our house

yes, they have handles . We do have some little plastic tumblers that were bought in a pound shop, so that might be worth looking at. The Ikea ones are probably a bit big

Ikea do a set of six small plastic cups without handles called Kalas for £1.09 for six... look here.

Oh sorry, did someone already mention the ikea ones... oops..

We had these from ikea, handle-less and small-ish!

www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10096907

We also had a tommy tippee cup which had this lid www.tommeetippee.co.uk/product/tommee_tippee_sipper_lids_pack_of_2_/

It was amazingly good but the tommee tippee cup did have handles but this lid allows them to drink but not tip an entire cup over the floor

Thank you all so much. I am going to try those Kalas for a start.

That tommy tippee lid is a genius idea. I might give them a shot too.

Hi DeeBlindMice - We bought cups from bathroom section in Wilko's,just plain white, and not very attractive but seem to the right width for DD's little fingers (DS didnt use no-lid cup for ages, but DD insisted on it from bout 10m mnths!)

Also, DH manages a pub and, when I'm not there to object, gives kids juice in disposable plastic shot glasses! You can buy them from supermarkets and can also be useful for picnics as they're a bit harder to break than flimsy plastic disposable cups.