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Learning to drink from a Doidy cup

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DisplacementActivity · 31/05/2008 10:37

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MamaTama · 31/05/2008 12:16

No answer for you, but will watch this thread with interest hoping someone will come through with advice.
I bought a Doidy cup too as it seemed the best option since DS never really had a bottle but not only is my (fully BFed) DS not really bothered about drinking anything, even BM from any recepticle not attached to my body, he just flings the water or whatever everywhere!
Good luck with it anyway.
Mamatama

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 31/05/2008 12:20

Just keep using it every day and they will soon get the hang of it. I really don't think there is a knack to it - although make sure you aren't flooding them with water/milk, just a little bit each sip.

spicemonster · 31/05/2008 12:23

I agree that practice is key And make sure she's wearing a plastic backed bib.

She won't be able to hold it herself for some time yet I wouldn't think - my DS is 14 months and I'm not convinced he has the control to hold a cup steady on his own yet.

fairylights · 31/05/2008 12:28

my ds is 19 mo and can just about manage a doidy cup without it going everywhere now. probably should have praticed more but to be honest, they can be a whole lot more independent if they have a cup with a spout (ie choose when to have a drink rather than you having to help them along) and my ds seriously did NOT want to be helped with the doidy cup all the time!!

luvaduck · 31/05/2008 12:29

hi there

ds aslso bottle refuser, excl bf.
we started with doidy cup at about 5 months - in the bath at night so it didn't matter if it went everywhere. he got better over about a month. we then switched to a spiiy cup (annabel karmel one with valve taken off or cow cup) and he got the hang of that too. he won't take as much as when he breastfeeds (i i think - he'll take about 100ml) but is great

just keep trying and she'll get there
at the beginning you feel like its never giong to happen but it will

spicemonster · 31/05/2008 12:31

That's true fairylights - I use a sippy cup too partly for independence and also because it's a lot more useful out and about. My DS also drinks from water bottles with a sports cap. TBH I don't really care how he gets it in as long as he drinks and he does seem to actually drink more from a sippy cup.

fairylights · 31/05/2008 12:36

yes i really found that my ds would just drink waaaay more from a sippy cup than the doidy and as i came towards the end of bf (at 10 months) he was obviously getting dehydrated because he was v constipated, so i was just concerned to get lots of fluid into him.

Tapster · 31/05/2008 19:11

Nice idea doidy cups but I really think at 6 months most babies would really struggle. My DD was very good at holding her sippy cup from an early age but I think to get enough EBM you need to use a bottle at that age. though no experience as only BF and gave no bottles of anything.

BouncingTurtle · 31/05/2008 19:15

Yes I have got doidy cups, but atm ds just doesn't get them.
He only takes bottles when I'm not around, otherwise he'll only take a bottle after a bf. Which is a bit pointless!

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DisplacementActivity · 31/05/2008 22:16

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Washersaurus · 31/05/2008 22:26

Why not give her a little sippy cup instead then, they soon get the hang of them?

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DisplacementActivity · 31/05/2008 22:29

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Washersaurus · 31/05/2008 22:34

The no leak ones are incredibly difficult to get liquid out of - you have to suck really really hard, but sippy cups are just free flow so not the same at all.

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DisplacementActivity · 31/05/2008 22:41

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Washersaurus · 31/05/2008 22:46

The tommee tippee first cups are the ones I mean. They cost about £1 each

onepieceoflollipop · 31/05/2008 22:50

They are £1.57 in Boots at the moment.

My dd loves to play with a doidy cup but needs a lot of help. She is getting the hang of the Tommee Tippee cup though. She is 9 months.

However one "side effect" of her being able to use a doidy cup means that if you go out and forget your "baby cup" she will probably manage to drink a bit out of a "normal" cup/beaker. Often children only used to bottles/spouted cups can't do that until they are a bit older.

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DisplacementActivity · 31/05/2008 22:55

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Washersaurus · 31/05/2008 22:56

My 10mo is excl bf and has a sippy cup to drink water from, he is also able to drink from a normal cup though (he does tend to dribble down his top )

onepieceoflollipop · 31/05/2008 22:57

Yes they look fine to me. If it is unclear if the cup you choose has a valve, test it by tipping it up (water pours out) or drink out of it yourself. Some of the valve ones are so difficult, even some adults can't get water out of them!

(afaik in parts of the US a "sippy cup" is a specific type of cup, looks like a cross between a cup and a bottle)

Washersaurus · 31/05/2008 23:00

Oh you are in the Netherlands! Do you have tommee tippee there?

Those cups do look similar, but be warned, I have tried lots of similar looking cups and the tommee tippee ones always come out best. Other cups I have tried drip and leak when closed, and some of them my DS' just refused to drink from!

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DisplacementActivity · 31/05/2008 23:02

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Washersaurus · 31/05/2008 23:02

Well I never! - I have always called those tommee tippee ones sippy cups

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DisplacementActivity · 01/06/2008 00:15

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learningallthetime · 01/06/2008 00:20

I've got the annabel karmel sippy cup and I've taken the valve off, is that as good as the tommee tippee cups?

luvaduck · 01/06/2008 00:40

i think its better as the milk flows out faster...