Please come and talk to me about Doidy Cups

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DD is 6.5mo and using her free flow sippy cups very well for water. I see people mention doidy cups and have just googled and am fascinated.

When did you introduce one for daytime drinks (not to cup feed a BF baby iyswim) and around what age did they master the use of it?

We started using doidy cups for daytime drinks at around 6 months when we started weaning - we did baby led weaning. I used to give DS a small drink of water in a doidy cup with his food at meal times. He used to throw it around, throw it on himself so I thought meal times were best! At a year we changed to cows milk in a doidy cup at meal times and water for snack times in a free flow sippy cup. Again mainly because of mess!

I found them no use whatsoever. By the time DD1 could manage them without drenching herself in 10 seconds, she could just as easily drink from a plastic IKEA cup. I think they are a bit of a waste of money personally (but if you want a go and are in SE London, I have two in the back of the cupboard you can have ).

Oh, and if they like handles, free flow sippy cup without the lid is just the same without the supposedly magic 'tilt'.

Having used them, I think they are a wee bit pointless, and in fact may be easier to spill down self.

DD has always just used the bog standard tomee tipee freeflow with the top taken off.

embarrassingly she has no idea what to do with a sippy cup

Utterly pointless waste of money. Good for nothing but boosting the inevitable beaker collection.

waste of time/money. nothing wromg with 2 handled cup/beaker without the lid.

Thanks all.

Ill just take the lid off her TT cup as and when she seems ready.

6 - 7 months ish. At the point where we despaired of DC1 who just didn't seem to get the idea of using a lidded cup at all. She also couldn't tip a regular cup far enough herself so was only drinking when we held a cup up to her lips so a doidy cup was fabulous.

DC2 went stright to a doidy cup with meals (as we already had one, obviously) but had no trouble using a lidded cup when out and about so it wasn't really necessary for DC2.

It's the only thing DD 25 weeks will drink from, apart from boob.