Can you recommend a drinking vessel?

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DS starts nursery in a few weeks and I’ve been asked to provide a water bottle or sippy cup for him. This is causing me a pathetic amount of stress because DS drinks from a (small, shatterproof) glass with us, he still needs help putting it down but otherwise this is successful. Completely understand they can’t have glass at nursery but I’m reluctant to get any kind of bottle or cup for him that he can’t sip from as normal. We bought a traditional free flow sippy cup when we started weaning, he gets frustrated with the spout so tips it upside down and tries to drink from the raised “rim” on the bottom. I’d rather not go down the straw style route until he’s mastered sipping as he’s only 9mo. I also looked at the 360 no spill cups but they are so tricky to get any liquid out of it feels like going backwards. One thing I was thinking of was a coffee cup with an open/close valve but without testing them out I don’t know which one to get. I have a Thermos one and it’s heavy without liquid in. Do these exist in a smaller size for children? I appreciate I’m over thinking this and I’m close to just taking a water bottle and a glass and just saying: this is what works, fill your boots. Any recommendations welcome. Thanks in advance.

Speak to the nursery, if they are happy for it not to have a lid you could buy a Doidy cup, and they control when he has water.

I'd say 360 is fine. They learn to use different vessels quickly and it won't confuse him, he'll still know how to use a glass. 360 is great because it won't spill in the bag, or pram.
I'm a bit confused as to what he usually drinks from when you're out though? Just use that. Unless you're bringing a glass everywhere with you a filling it up?!

IlHe won't go backwards, people learn to walk first then cycle - they don't forget how to walk! Just keep using the glass at home.

I think a cup they can get themselves is healthier as otherwise you are interfering in their fluid intake.

I don't understand your description of a traditional sippy cup, but DD recently got one of these. It still spills a fair bit but not horrendously (we use it without the straw). It's effectively a cup they sip from but most of the top is covered so it doesn't all flow out the top, only a limited quantity. No sucking required though.

https://www.hippychick.com/shop/tum-tum-silicone-sippy-cups/?attributepaarelationship=blue&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwKjn5I7F9wIVg-vtCh2MhwH8EAQYASABEgIvqvDBwE

@miltonj Guilty. I take a glass and a bottle of water. Takes up less space than a sippy cup and a bottle of water (that I’d be taking for myself anyway). Or if I know we’re going to a cafe I just order him a glass of tap water.

We use weighted straw cups from Tumtum when out and about. Straw drinking is a skill they learn and will not need to just abandon as they will how to drink from a munchkin 360 or a tommee tippee sippy cup with a fixed spout. Yes an open cup is gold standard, but it heavily restricts when they can have a drink. DD drinks loads of water, everyone says she's the best drinker they've had and it's because she loves her cup, it's always been novel and something she enjoys using whether in the pram, car, nursery, garden etc.

Agree - use a weighted straw or even just a flip top straw water bottle. They need to learn to use a straw, and they need to have their own drinking bottle for use in nursery/school/adulthood so it's not a pointless thing to learn or have.

In that case I think it's a good idea to buy a sippy or 360 for general out snd about use anyway. It's better for little to be able to help themselves to sips whenever the like rather than just at the times when you fill it up. Better both for their hydration but also for encouraging autonomy over their basic needs.

Just use a flip top water bottle. Your baby will be fine and still be able to use a glass.

Thanks for everyone’s support, reiterating what I already knew: I’m worrying unnecessarily. Will look at everyone’s suggestions and I’m sure we’ll find something that works.
I think I’ve been so focused on ensuring he drinks something when I’m not with him I’d not seen the wood for the trees and the points about straw drinking had been lost.
I hadn’t realised people gave drinks to their children when they were in a pushchair, I don’t tend to eat or drink “on the move” so I hadn’t considered this. Regarding independence, again not something I’d considered, he drinks well and at home he has access to water whenever. I actively offer it at every meal / snack / breastfeed as well as every time I have a drink and if he indicates he wants water. When I spoke to the GP about him not wanting to use a closed sippy cup (classic FTM) she didn’t mention this as something to consider.

Hey, my son uses a sistema water bottle. It has a twist cap which he needs a hand with. But, the water free flows.

Just to echo above - I had read that it's good to use both an open cup and a straw cup as they are both skills the child will need in later life anyway. We use them interchangeably with our 10mo