so confused - help needed re: milk in cups!!!

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all advice seems to say to get baby drinking milk from a cup/beaker rather than a bottle...but which one?!

Have been searching thru old threads to try and find an answer - any advice before i waste money trying them all?!

Is your child currently bottle or breast fed? and how old is your baby? that might influence the type of cup.

with my DD1 i tried about 8 and the cheapest one i bought 9from wilkos or somewhere like that) worked best for her.

Some people like Doidy cups (google to see it). I used to use one from Boots that had a valve thing when she was small, and then moved to an anywayup cup when she drank more.

It really depends on what your baby likes - fast easy flow, slow flow etc

see, it's so confusing. ds is 7mths. Drinks water from avent magic cup (not really interested though, just bangs cup about). Anywayup cups had bad rep in previous thread, which is why i started new one!

My health visitor gave me one, it's a tommee tippee one, plain with a handle at each side and a plain lid that has no valve, just about 4 holes in the top of the spout (moulded, not a flip or anything), just a plain design and I think it is good. Ds also had a doidy cup but only at the table for milk, with the tt one he can sit in the living room without me having a fit through fear!

thanks brambalina - i think the tt one is the sort of thing i'm after - don't want him to have to bite/suck like mad to get anything out - surely they just get frustrated?!

I can't seem to copy and paste tonight but if you google tommee tippee then click on cup feeding then first cup 4+ months, this is the closest I can find. However, MIL actually has this one and I find when ds drinks from it it lets on quite a lot of air, as you will see the spout is a flip one whereas the one I'm describing has no flip, it's a spout that cannot be moved. How annoying if they have stopped making it. Our health board is quite well funded so we're lucky to get these freebies, worth an ask of you hv though just to see.

Yes you're right, they do get frustrated. When Istarteed weaning ds I was keen to give him water in a cup only and as he was breast fed I think it was quite alien for him to get a liquid out of something hard and plastic and I'd bought the avent magic cup, so it took a good few weeks of tipping it up in to his mouth, without the valve in, just for him to catch on!

As glassslipper asked, how old is your lo and were/are they breast or bottle fed?

switching from bottle to cup is recommended at around 1 year so there is no rush just yet. I didnt even attempt it with dd till she was 1 and she was off bottles by 14 months.

DS (8 months) uses the tommee tippee first cup (the flip up one without a valve) for water and has also used the avent magic cup (which does have a non-spill valve) I will do the same for him and leave him till 1 year before giving milk in it as milk is less important then and I wont have to worry so much about the drop in milk intake (they tend to drink less from the cup than the bottle)

DD2 at 6 nmonths never had a bottle and went straight from bf to an avent rubbery spout cup. DD1 at about 10 months went from bf to bottle to the same.

My DS loves the boots own one. Has a rubbery spout and seems easy to get drink from. He started with it at six months and took to it really well.