When did you start your babies on a sippy cup? My guy started using one today and drank a whole ounce of water within 2 minutes…he’s 5 months. Is formula/BM safe to put in these? Or should I still use bottles for feeds and just give water in the supply cup?
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I started all 3 of mine around 6 months. It was easy to ditch the bottle at 1. There’s even sippy cups with stages to make the transition easier.
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6mo. My son had trouble nursing, a d wouldn’t take a bottle. I put formula in it, plus he got fed baby foods. His colic symptoms disappeared within the day. That was years ago. Todays sippy cups have different flows, which is ideal.
I started both my daughters on sippy cup around 10 or 11 months. I would offer it with meals and only put water in sippy. They still got breastmilk and formula in a bottle. As soon as they turned a year old I took the bottle and formula away. And then they got whole milk and water in the sippy. They also make sippy cups with bottle like nipples to help the transition.
We do straw cups or waterbottles with straws when out and about at a year old. But water only.
Home during meals I gave a shot glass size open cup with water in it.
We did the weighted straw Munckin sippy cups around 11-12months. He’s 3 and still uses them. They are awesome
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I started my daughter on water only in sippy cups at 6 months. She was already eating food and her doctor was perfectly fine with it. They just don’t need a lot. Like half a cup a day.
6mths…they loved it so they were easy to break from bottle
6 months for all but 1(micro preemie, she was 9 months) with water or watered down juice. Since my youngest had formula until she was 18 months old, I put it in her sippy cup. I also used the 360 for the youngest- she had trouble with any other kind
Put her formula in it it won’t hurt. The earlier you start the easier it is to transition from bottle to sippy
10-12 months…what’s the rush?
When I had my daughter her Dr. strongly advised us not to use sippy cups, baby bottles, and pacifiers. They have proven to cause problems with teeth once they come in. We only did water bottles and the munchkin mirical 360. By the time she was a year old she was drinking out of actual cups with no problem.
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Why are you giving a 5 month old water?? All they need is formula.
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We started sippys around 6 months all of my kids were off of the bottle and drinking formula from a sippy by 10 months. Introducing them early sometimes helps with the bottle transition 
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