Which cup for milk?

[Olivia199]

I know this has been asked a million times and I'm so sorry to repeat it but we aren't in the "won't give up the bottle" camp as such.

My daughter is 11.5 months old and has decided, apparently, to reject the bottle. She is more than happy to drink her soy growing up milk in a cup (CMPA) but the ones I've tried all require her to tip it. So after it's gone down from totally full, she can't tip it back far enough to get any and gets furious if I try and help.

She also will not drink formula from a cup, or bottle... or anything. Seems she's decided after months of feeding to sleep, that she's done with all that. Wants to settle herself in the cot and her bottle of prescription formula is ignored entirely. In fact, she gets a little annoyed that I dare offer her this stuff.

I tried the soy growing up milk today and she LOVED it, drank happily from both an open cup and a simple tommee tippee beaker. Issue is though, she isn't overly keen on me assisting. She wants to do it herself which, as you can imagine, leads to more milk on her/the floor/me than in her belly and she doesn't appreciate when it dips below the level she can manage.

I've been looking at the weighted straw cups for her to have with meals so she can help herself but oh my god I have bought so many cups... if I buy anymore that aren't quite right I might go a bit crazy.

Any special recommendations for weighted straw cups? Or any others?

Keen to foster this independent enthusiasm as far as possible. If she could, she'd drop all milk and just have water and scarf all food within a 3 mile radius, but I'd like her to have at least some, especially as we are dairy free for a while yet thanks to a recent milk ladder fail.

Get the tum tum tots one. It’s basically the only one that doesn’t have a valve (as recommended by dentists), plus has a weighted straw, plus can go in the dishwasher x

Not weighted straw but have you looked at the 360 munchkin cups?

I think with the munchkin you still have to tip it up?

Have you tried a doidy cup. It's an open cup that you have to tip, but it's designed to be easier for babies to hold and use independently.

Amazing, thank you Peaplant.

We have got the 360 and she LOVES this for water out and about. (And will tolerate some assistance to tip it) but sadly milk seems to be a "my way or no way" so she's only happy when it's full to the brim and requires minimal tipping.

I have tried the dodie and that's what we've been using for water at meal times but given half the chance she just dumps it over herself. Although she does find this hilarious, it's fairly grim when she's then covered in milk. At least with water she dries out!
Turns out she CAN tip it but only with the outcome of emptying the whole cup over her head. So again, used only really with support which means she gets a bit cross after a few sips!

You have to refill them because they're tiny but if you want her to get practice with an open cup but minimise the volume that gets spilled/chucked I recommend the babycup ones - they're just very small cups, a bit like plastic shot glasses. Good practice as the size is more proportional to their little hands. Not really what you asked for but we've found them a useful alternative to the doidy cup

I'd persevere with an open cup tbh. We only ever gave DS open cups and once the initial novelty of tipping it all over himself wore off he was fine with them. We started with a shot glass at 6 months when we first introduced water, then one of those little Turkish tea glasses when he got a bit bigger, then the small Nutella jars that can be washed and used as drinking glasses. I'm not from the UK and sippy cups etc aren't available back home so they werent on my radar at all despite having lived here for some years. At home all kids just learn to use an open cup from the start.

Absolutely tum tum tots weighted straw