Anyone recommend a cup/beaker where you can alter the flow?

[arthymum]

Exclusively BF DS (6 months) won't take a bottle or a cup where you have to suck like a bottle. But we are having some success with a free-flowing cup (because I have removed the non-spill valve), as long as I gently feed him the milk/water bit by bit - trouble is that when he tries to do it himself it rather predictably goes everywhere! Can anyone recommend a cup or beaker where you can adjust the flow? Preferably with handle/s?

Have you tried the doidy cup? It tends not to be such a recipe for disaster because DCs can see the liquid without having to tip the cup as much, and therefore don't misjudge and tip it over themselves.

Thanks Cherrychoc - I had been looking at a doidy cup but it just looked like a recipe for a soaked baby! But I guess he will have to get used to any design for a while.

I don't know of one that isn't valved, but either the Tommy Tippee first cup - which only has one small hole in it's flip up spout, or a cup with a straw seem to work well. I got some cups made by The First Years on Amazon, which are beakers with a lid that has a hole for a straw in it, and you just use a normal straw (there are some cups with straws built in but I can't see how you clean them properly). DS got the hang of a straw very easily, and others have said that their DCs preferred it