Still wont use a sippy cup.......?

Question

When should my baby be able to use this!? She is almost 11 months old and wont even try the cup. Sometimes she will bite it, but usually wont even give it a second glance. I tried soft and hard spouts and it doesn't even matter what I put inside because she wont try it. She will drink out of my cup or water bottle, but not a sippy cup. And she doesnt have the straw concept down yet. When will she either be able to use a straw or understand how to suck from a sippy cup?

Answer 1

Have you tried the NUK cup?  It is more like a bottle and Emma used one at six months.

Answer 2

She probly just doesnt understand that there is something in there that she can drink..Put some juice or something in there and pretend to drink it infront of her then maybe she will catch on..do it with a soft spout first because it feels more like a nipple off a bottle :)                    

Answer 3

Try the cup and see if it is to hard to suck out of. Try and find one that is easy to suck out of first then move on to the harder ones. My sister-in-law had the same problem with her son. She made it come out easier and he caught on after that. Just keep offering it to her. She will get it soon.

Answer 4

I would keep trying to offer the sippy cup to her. I think eventually she will take it. Maybe try offering it to her at a set time each day. Like with her lunch; even try a sippy cup that has her favorite character or something? Hope it works

Answer 5

my baby brother i take care of him

he didnt take to sippys cups til he was a  year and a half..but didnt put the bottle down til he was 2..but every baby is different..

how i got him to drink out if it because he was like ur daughter would drink from me but not his own...

sooo i pretended i wanted to use it..and then he wanted it because he didnt want me to it lol..

Answer 6

My son is 13 months and hates a sippy cup. He will throw them if I give him one to try to get him used to it. I've tried 4 different ones with different things to drink and he still won't even hold them for more than a minute. I guess when he's ready he'll use one but I'm not pushing it yet.

Answer 7

My son was like that, so we tried the sports sippy cup by Nuby (usually sold at Walmart).  This sippy cup is shaped a lot like the nipple on a bottle.  When he got the hang of that we switched him to the regular Nuby sippy cup and then eventually the hard spout. He was about 12 1/2 months before he got the hang of it.

http://www.netkidswear.com/nubysportcup....

Answer 8

My son (10 months) isn't too big into sippy cups.  I bought some small plastic cups that are easy for him to pick up and he drinks out of those (with a little supervision).  If we go to a restaurant or out, I'll take a sippy cup, but he usually just plays with it.  In some ways I see it as a good thing, I'll never have to wean him from a sippy cup!

Answer 9

I bought one of those sippy cups from Target yesterday with the little gummy straw and handles on it. I gave it to my 11 month old son and he ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!! He never understood the concept of tipping the cup, so this is perfect. He literally sat down indian style, held it with both hands, and drank the hole thing while watching bunnytown, lol... I was shocked. Try it!!

Answer 10

My son is 7 1/2 months and I keep offering it too him also. But he just chews and sucks on it a lil bit. But what I have been doing in the past couple days, is i took off the rubber stopper, just so he can get the idea of how too use it. Keep offering it too her, and I am sure she will take it. Good luck

Answer 11

i think if you keep going through the motions with the sippy cup yourself he will eventually get interested.

One thing I learned with babies is never give up. They might seem not to like something today and want it tomorrow. With the straw it was really over night. I took her to a restaurant once and tried to get her to drink her milk out of a straw and she was just biting on it. Then I got her one of those little juice jugs that has a straw spout and she just did it.

keep offering him the sippy cup and especially let him see you lifting it and bringing it to your mouth (pretending like what comes out of it is just fantastic) and it'll grow on hims

Answer 12

She's still young for that. Let her have it but look at it more as something for her to play with and explore. I know, the doctors tell you to stop the bottle at 12 months. But that, too, is ridiculous and unnecessary.

Try sippy cups WITHOUT those stupid valves in them. Those are very hard to sip from, especially for beginners. We used the take n toss plastic cups with lids (they will leak when turned upside down or laid down) because they didn't require sucking...as soon as the kid turns it over, the liquid starts to drip out the lid. Take N Toss brand, plastic with snap on lids that have no valve.

Source: Parent of two kids, ages 4 and 12.