Sippy cup, 10 months old, too young?

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OX Jess

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Hi, I am trying to put my 10-month-old on a sippy cup but it seems not very 'successful'. Instead of sucking, my son bites on the spout (which is made by plastic, quite soft but still a lot harder than a feeding bottle teat). He seems like treating the spout as his 'teething ring'. I have tried 3 different cups but made no difference. Any tips? Is it a sign showing that he is not ready for a sippy cup and I should wait a bit longer? Is 10 months too early to start on a sippy cup?!
 
I don't think 10 months is too early. My son, who just turned 1, loves biting on the spout too...biting doesn't necessarily mean he's not drinking. Does he drink at all from the cup? Just give him a bit of time and he'll get it eventually.
 
Thanks for your advice, FutureHKmom. I can't see he has taken any water from the cup. He enjoys biting the spout for a minute then push it away! I'm thinking of putting something other than water in to make him like his sippy cup.
 
my 3 year old still bites anything in her cup... straw, stir stick...ice (ick!)... you name it.

give it time, he'll catch on eventually.
 
I have just introduced my daughter (7 months) to a sippy cup. She likes to use it like a teething ring at the minute but I am hoping that the more I leave it with her the more used to it she will get. At the moment, when she gets some liquid from it, it shocks her!
 
Our daughter is 17 months and STILL can't figure out a sippy cup unless we're helping her lift it. I think because she was never bottle fed, she doesn't "get" that you need to tip the cup back. I ended up giving her a straw cup (one without the valve - that just makes it impossible to drink from) when she was about 9 months old and she figured that out right away. She's only ever really drunk from a straw cup. I'm waiting til it gets warm to teach her how to drink from a regular cup, that way if/when she gets saturated, it won't matter as much since it's warm anyway... we'll just bypass the sippy cup altogether...
 
I introduced one at 6 months though it took months for my son to understand how to suck it. One day he just did. I found that with the sippy cups, too much sucking action is needed and my son wasn`t drinking enough. When I gave him a straw cup, like nicolejoy`s baby, he got it right away and has been using them ever since. He also has an old style sippy cup where the liquid just flows form the holes and he really likes that one too...but I still really need to sueprvise.
 
My son will only drink from a cup with a straw too - he is now 11 months and never got the hang of the ones with spouts. My son was just like yours and loved gnawing on the spout. I tried a few and gave up. I now also give him the doidy cup (open but with an angle) a lot and he is getting pretty good with that too.
 
My son could not figure out the sippy cup or the straw till 14 months too- he kept biting it and thought they were very funny. But he was comfortable drinking from a regular glass as young as 11 months- go figure!
 
newbiekt said:
My son will only drink from a cup with a straw too - he is now 11 months and never got the hang of the ones with spouts. My son was just like yours and loved gnawing on the spout. I tried a few and gave up. I now also give him the doidy cup (open but with an angle) a lot and he is getting pretty good with that too.
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Can you buy those doidy cups in HK?? Where at? I was thinking of getting one... I haven't looked for them yet but if you know, it'll save me the search ;) Also how much do they cost?
 
My son couldn't work out the sippy cup at first either and we read that one way is to remove the "non-spill" valve so that on the off chance that they tip it (in their mouths) they will realise that water comes out of it. And that to just leave the cup there at every meal and, one day, they will just pick it up and start drinking from it! And he did! =D Once he worked it out, we put the valve back in.

Not sure what the doidy cup is, but mothercare had a cup that you could convert stage 1 = sippy spout, stage 2 = lid with an open spout (?), stage 3 = rim that directs the liquid (or something - haven't really looked into that one in detail)....? I bought it from Mothercare in Lee Gardens
 
PS. it does get messy without the non-spill (as you can imagine!) as, most of the time, it's tipped "out of the mouth"!! ;P
 
Not too early at all as we introduced a sippy cup to my son at 6 months too. He did not like it and prefers the cups with straws.
 
Funny how kids are so different! Mine took to the sippy cup right away but took forever to get how to use a straw! But actually, we only use the sippy cup if we're out, but started on a regular glass at a pretty young age (11 or 12 mo, I think) We used a shot glass (!) and espresso mug ... both are just the right size for little hands, and if they spill it's not that much liquid. (great advice we got at a baby shower, and from a single man, no less: never pour more than you're willing to clean up!) We keep a little pitcher on the table so it's easy to refill. He loves using it and obviously feels proud to be drinking out of a real glass. Our son is fairly calm, but still, in a year, we've only broken one glass.
 
Hi,

I just introduced my 6 month old son to sippy cup. I first took out the safety thing inside the cup so that water just poured out of the spout. Then he figured out that water comes out of there. After a very wet/messy week I put the inside thing back in and now he sucks from it and drinks water well from the sippy cup.
 
Hey, the problem solved! I gave my son a straw last week and he managed it perfectly well! No need for the sippy cup then. Wonder why I never thought about giving him a straw until I came on here... ?!? Thanks ladies!
 
Ox Jess - When you gave the straw cup to your son last week, did he just take it and start drinking from it? I tried to give my son a straw cup this weekend and he didn't even want to put it in his mouth! I put it in my mouth and drank from it and then he kept pushing it back into my mouth!
 
Yes, when I offered the straw to him, he simply sucked it like sucking his feeding bottle. Well, the straw I gave him is not those plastic one we adults use but the one designed for putting into baby's bottle. I got it from Jusco' baby department and the brand is "Puku".
 
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