Good Sippy Cups

We love the Target brand of sippy cups. They are the only ones that we have found that never leak. They are only 99 cents each. They are in the baby section right by the plastic plates and bibs. We tried a few different brands, too.

My son wouldn't use a sippy cup either but he will use the Nuby cups with the silicone straws.

I feel for you completely, my 11 month old is the same way. He actually does really well with a straw. Try to see if you can teach him how to drink from a straw, and then there are some nuby brand "sippy" cups with a flip up straw that we love. It is great becasue they dont have to tip the cup back to get the drink out, a concept my son just does not seem to understand!! Also, now he will drink from a juice box, or even a cup of water at a restaurant. I know they sell the ones I use at walmart for about $3.50 or so. But, you need to use a regular straw for a bit first so that you can put a little in his mouth at a time until he knows how to suck it out. Good luck and happy almost 1st birthday...cn you believe how fast it has gone!! ~A.~

Hey A.,

We use those sippy cups that have the heads on them. ie. The ones that have "Barney" "Curious George" "Bob the Builder" They are in the juice isle with apple juice in them. I dump the apple juice out and contiue to use the sippy cup for a long time. Good Luck!!! They do not leak at all!!!!

My son hated the sippy cups with the hard nipple/spout on it. I love the Gerber flexy ones. I can only find them at Walmart, they come in red and blue cups with yellow and blue handles.
Hope that helps

My daughter was the same way. I was so afraid that she was going to get dehydrated bacause she wouldn't drink at all. Finally I gave her a playtex sippy without the valve in it. (I only put a little bit of water/juice in the cup.) Once she realized that there was liquid, I was able to put the valve in it and she began to drink.

Oh, I also need to add that she WOULD NOT drink milk out of the sippy cup for a while. So, I just gave her milk through a straw. Then, once she got used to water/juice in the sippy I tried again with the milk. At my pedi recommendation, I gave her 1/2 chocolate milk, 1/2 regular milk. She is now 15 months and drinks regular milk no problem. It's a process, but he will get it! Hang in there. :)

~M.

Hi A. -

Congrats on making it 11 months! I have 2 boys (2 1/2 yo and 3 mo. My older boy was the same with the sippy. Instead of using the sippy cup, I went with a sports bottle. Oddly enough, it worked. He also used a straw early on, before the sippy cup. As a baby, he never held his bottle, but once we went to the sports bottle (around 9 months) he was all about holding on to it. By a year old, he was off of the bottle and onto the other cups. He would have been totally off the bottle before then, but I enjoyed giving him his night time bottle too much.

Best of luck to you!

I like the Playtex sippy cups; they seem to do best with preventing leaks and they are easy to hold. When it was time to wean my twin girls from the bottle, both really refused to drink from the cup; daddy had insisted that we wait and they were already more than a year old. The longer you wait the harder it is. this is how I did it: Start the replacement one meal at a time; the one where perhaps he drinks the least amount of milk, or perhaps select one where you are present and can control the situation. Then get him all ready for the meal as you usually do, and calmly hand him the cup instead of the bottle. He will scream and refuse it, but you cannot bend. If he wants to eat at that meal, he will drink from the cup. With my girls, they were very strong willed and they only drank a few sips from the cup at that meal; they held out for the next feeding. That worked for a while until after a few weeks, I started substituting at the next feeding. They were very hungry at that point. I still remember the screams when I walked into the room holding those cups instead of their bottle. They screamed; I stayed calm. I explained that their milk was in the cup and they knew how to use it. Finally one broke; she's my practical one; she drank it up because she was hungry. The other followed suit and drank some. You then give that second one a few weeks, and then substitute another meal. Save the night bottle for last - that's the last one that needs to go. You want them to get a lot of milk at that feeding so they will sleep.

It's not the cup that is the problem - it's that the baby does not want to change; he's scared. But he will adapt like so many things and then will forget all about the bottle.

A., My son would not take sippy cups either (I think we tried every kind.) He always loved drinking my water out of a straw when he saw me doing it or even out of spouted water bottles, so I bought him some of those cups with built in straws and let him drink out of the water bottles. (The cups with straws say they are for an older age, but he loved them.) He drinks out of sippy cups now...we just kept trying after he got used to the straw cups...along with the straw cups. I actually was told that drinking out of a straw or water bottle is better for their language development because it works different muscles in their mouths than sippy cups. I don't know for sure if that is true, but at least he was done with the bottle! Hope this helps:)

Just keep giving him the cup and no bottle. My doctor said that when they get thirsty enough they will figure it out. Also, he may be playing games with you by tossing the cup-after tossing it a couple of times, I take it away and set it on the counter where they can see it. I do inhome daycare and I have yet had a child not take a cup in the last 15 years of doing this. Keep trying...good luck