Baby obsessed with holding a sippy cup to sleep!

[Peanutbutteryday]

Since I stopped EBF my 13 month has become obsessed with holding a sippy cup to sleep. Takes a few sips. But even if she’s conked and I try and take it off her she wakes up! She requests it on night wakes too. It’s painful.

I just have to go cold turkey on it too don’t I.

I’ve tried comforters but she isn’t interested.

If she's just holding it can't you leave her with it if you give her an empty one to hold, what's the harm? Or do you mean she's falling asleep with it in her mouth/sucking it, in which case I'd probably just go cold turkey on it and maybe give her water from something else at bedtime/night wakes to break the habit.

What’s in it? I’d just get a non spill type one and put a bit of water in and leave her to it.

Do you need to take it off her?

Watching with interest, my 22 month old does this and still wakes 2/3 times a night requesting bloody more water in it!

Interesting no she’s not falling asleep dribking it she just holds it! It does have some liquid in it though as she’ll take a few random sips when dropping off. I thought I couldn’t leave it in her cot unattended

Do you take it off or leave in the cot? Glad it’s not just us!

She’s 13months old and it’s a sippy cup. What do you think will happen if you leave it unattended?

What could possibly happen if she sleeps holding a sippy cup? Worst case scenario I can imagine is a bit of spilled water. I’d just make sure it’s almost empty.

If she is just using it as a security/comfort thing then just leave it in her cot, what are you worried about?

I dunno! 😂😂😂 milk party or something. I suppose I’m still in the mind frame of she needs a clear cot but I guess she’s over 12 months now.

I think the clear cot thing is when they're so tiny they can't push a teddy bear away if it's near their face. A sippy cup at 13 months should be fine. I'd leave her with it, the only thing I might do is start to dilute the milk with water and eventually reduce to plain water if she's sipping milk overnight, just for the sake of her teeth.

The clear cot is so they don't suffocate on something soft which could become squished against their face. Definitely not a risk from the sippy cup. Worst would be she gets a mark where an edge has been pressing which will quickly fade. Leave her with it and enjoy that she's found a comforter instead of you!

Let her crack on. My youngest was in a bed by 18 months with all the random crap she could haul into it.

Awww that's sweet. Take a pic and treasure it.
As long as it's non spill who cares. My eldest used to go to bed with a bottle. Cot bumpers and blanket era! Didn't really think about his teeth etc but my youngest used to have sippy of water but never really bothered.

It's fine. Use a no-spill one with not very much in it.

My eldest did this she would take shoes and plastic toys and cups to bed, she also had a dummy and a spare all in her bed !

God yeah !we had cot bumpers and waffle blankets back in the "dark ages" 😀

If it helps, I have 3 under 3. When it came to number 3 I was so tired I ended up giving up breastfeeding around 8 months and then from 9months I just handed her (number 3) a bottle during the night in her (next to me) cot. From about 12months I left a bottle in her cot and she found in when she woke up, fed herself and slept through.

yes I was so so worried about that bottle. But it turned into a cup in bed. And then turned into a cup before bed. And then nothing before bed. And now she’s 4 and doesn’t drink much milk, she is dry at night and only ever has water. She’s also slept through since about 11/12months, largely because she knew there was a drink near by.

I didn’t realise that there’s milk in the cup when I replied. I’d actually try to swap it for a water bottle. I’d not want her to drink milk around 5am in the morning which was already in this bottle since last evening. But apart from that, I don’t think there’s any worry about suffocating, that wouldn’t be possible with a cup, and once they’re older than 1 year, they should also be fine with a soft toy for comfort because they’d be able to move their head away.

I agree with @Cla7 , I would replace with either an empty cup or water as not good for their teeth to have milk overnight. But no problem with holding the cup itself for comfort

I wouldn't give cow's milk once teeth brushed. Give her water or an empty cup instead. My toddler had a bed full of teddies and dolls at that age, and a duvet and pillow.. a cup is fine.. can't suffocate on that...

Thanks all! Tbh she slept through last night (completely unheard of) so it wasn’t an issue. But tonight I think I’ll swap it for water if she wakes and try and relax a bit