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correctly using the sippy cup/bottle

carms29
carms29
i have a 1 year old who refuuuuses to tip up his bottle and sippy cups. for his bottle i use the drop in's so eventually after he's sucked the air out enuf the milk will come to him, but with the sippy cups obviously thats a problem, Anyone else have this issue? idk how to get him to tip it up.. i usually have to do it for him, ive let him just suck and suck until he see's nuthings coming out but he just gets frustrated and throws it lol .. i would like to switch bottles or just get him off the bottle but it makes it kinda hard with him not tipping up his cup to get everything out of it. help help!! :)
deleted_user
deleted_user
My daughter had the same problem with sippy cups. We just started getting the ones with the straws in them so she didn't need to tip them. Then we would try every so often with regular sippy cups as she got older until she got the hang of it.
carms29
carms29
its funny cuz my son learned how to use a straw before ever sucking on a sippy cup, the leak proof ones are very hard to suck out of, so i have a few of those with the straw i just figured he'd know by now to tip it! .. i guess all with time it'll come to him! .. thanks for the reply!
deleted_user
deleted_user
my 13 month old son has figured out how to tip his bottles and the sippy cups, but has not figured out how to get the fluids out of the cup
deleted_user
deleted_user
I had the opposite issue. DD was tipping the straw cups and was only getting air.

It took my daughter awhile to get the handle of sippy cups. I started offering them at 6 months. DD definitely was not ready then, but I still offered them once a week. I'd let her hold them and play with them.

She had an A-HA moment and suddenly took to it. I'd have to say that this is something a child will do when ready to. It takes awhile to figure out what a sippy does and to figure out what kind of sippy your child prefers! :o)