Please Help! Need advice on baby's first cup

[Dahlia]

Can anyone offer me any advice? DD2 is 9 months old and just won't drink from a beaker - have tried three different ones, all soft spouts, but she doesn't seem to know what to do with it - she won't suck it, and now she just purses up her lips and refuses to take it at all. One of them lets the drink out quite easily and the other two you have to actually suck. I'm wondering if there are any good cups that have more of a teat shaped spout? She is only drinking formula (about 20 ounces a day) and I am slightly worried that she isn't having any other fluids. Any advice would be appreciated as I am fretting about it somewhat!

What about going for a beaker with no lid at all, if she dislikes the spout bit. Ww had this problem with DD when she was younger and tried a Doidy cup : here

With a little help she used these really well from about 4.5 months and quickly learnt how to use it herself. She moved onto proper cups and beakers just after her first birthday.

Avent do spouts that fit onto the avent bottle - if she's used bottles that might be more familiar? They have a valve in but you can take that out to make a fast-flowing spout.

I found with dd that she needed a really simple beaker to start with - the tip it up and all the water comes out fast sort. No valves, no having to put your lips close around the spout, no having to bite the spout. Asda do hard plastic beakers with spouts with 3 holes in that were good. Once she realised what the beaker was for, she got good at it quite quickly. Then we moved on to Tommee Tippee flip-up spout beakers as they're slower-flowing and she could control how much she got.

Do you know any other babies the same age who do drink from beakers? If so, get them together and let your dd watch!

I had a very similar experience to Zerub, dd couldn't manage anything but a very simple beaker, no valves, just holes in the end of a hard spout. I used to take water in a seperate container if we were out and about and just decant some when she wanted a drink. I bought so many cups it was a running joke but, in the end, she mananged a Tommee Tippee Easiflow one , she really got into it after seeing her friend use one.

The one Hulababy recommends looks great too, one I don't have in my collection!!

we used this with dd and it worked well for us

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Thanks ladies, I shall start experimenting! She does watch her little friends happily slurping from their cups but she just smiles at me and purses her lips shut when I approach her with a cup!

Like the others I found simple is best - tommee tippee cup with lid with no valve, heinz baby basics, avent soft spout with or without valve. But mainly I would say don't worry about her fluid intake - she is drinking plenty of formula and her food will be pretty sloppy.
With ds1 I religiously offered him water at every mealtime and for ages (certainly until he was well over one year) he wouldn't take more than the most measly sip. Even now he mostly drinks milk in between meals (probably about a pint a day so similar to your dd) and rarely drinks much at mealtimes.

Elliott, did yours have any issues with drinking milk from a beaker? We're trying to get dd to drink her daytime milk from a beaker, and she's just not interested. (Have just ordered a doidy cup to see if that helps) She's used to water from her avent beaker and I wonder if she doesn't associate it with milk if you see what I mean - one sip and she rejects it (with or without valve), and can't stand her anywayup cup, so it means that her formula intake is reduced.