if your LO is off bottles ... a few questions

Do you use the same sippy/straw type cup for water/milk/juice?

Do they drink milk at meals or separate from?

When where they able to drink from a regular cup?
Was it any way correlated to when they were able to handle utensils? Or anything else correlated to it?

TIA

We threw away the bottles, DS took to a straw sippy well, he drank half his normal intake of milk this morning. I'm hoping he'll do the same for his noon milk.

He was drinking water out of a regular sippy today too. So I'm confused what to get more of. Sippies or Straws.

Re: if your LO is off bottles ... a few questions

DS is completely off bottles. He didn't get the hang of straw sippies (and I haven't really pushed it) so he drinks - very well - from his sippy cups.

We have 3 of the playtex sippies that we use normally for milk and an OXO sippy that we use usually for water. BUT, I will put water in the playtex ones and milk in the OXO one and he will still drink them, so he's not attached to a specific drink to a specific cup.

We switched to sippies about a month ago, have not transitioned to regular cups so no help there.

We do milk separate from meals. Usually it's milk, then about 1 hour later he gets his meal. We've started giving him a water sippy with lunch and dinner and he'll drink some (maybe 2 ounces during the meal).

Re: if your LO is off bottles ... a few questions

One straw cup for milk and another for juice/water.

Milk 2x a day, in the am and the evening.

D is 25 months and still does not drink from a cup-I will be training her soon.

DD was able to hold/use utensils at about 15 months, so I would say there is no correlation.

I would say go for the straw sippies. The way I understand it is that the straw sippies help with oral muscle development.

Message edited 3/17/2011 11:29:35 AM.

Re: if your LO is off bottles ... a few questions

I have a blue sippy for juice and a pink one for milk and she has milk with dinner. I try to get her to drink 2 sippy cups of milk a night, she usually does a good job with it. I have everything color coded so i don't end up giving her milk in her juice sippy.

Re: if your LO is off bottles ... a few questions

my son was off botttles at 12 months duringhte day and dropped his before bed bottle at 14 months

we use straw sippys for milk and regular sippys for juice/water but he will drink whatever out of either - i know straw are better because it works more of there facial muslces - but they seem to leak more


he uses a cup at daycare has been working on that since around 15 months - he started using a fork around 14 months - and a spoon at 12 months
now at 18 months he is very good at both and can drink out of a cup but sippys are easier for me

Re: if your LO is off bottles ... a few questions

we have a million sippy cups it seems like. I have the disposable kind when we're out, straw, regular sippy, etc.

Heck, whatever is clean I take and hand it to DS. I will say what's inside, but he'll take it anyway... milk, water or juice

Usually he only gets the milk in the morning, after nap and a little b4 bed so other times it's usually water or water and juice mixed,