Finally, a substantial number of injuries have occurred in young
children using sippy cups, most commonly mouth injuries resulting from falls while running and drinking from a sippy cup simultaneously.
If
a child uses a sippy cup excessively and doesn't develop a mature swallowing pattern, then oral motor skills are not well - developed.
If
your child uses sippy cups, especially the type designed to be spill - free, you have probably encountered the ooey - gooey gunk that can get stuck inside the small valves, straws and other parts.
Not exact matches
My
child refuses to hold a bottle or
use a
sippy cup.
As your
child heads into toddlerhood, he needs to transition into
using a
sippy cup or straw
cup, whether he's been breastfed or bottle - fed.
Sippy cups can be
used even when they aren't upright, so encourage your
child to drink sitting up.
You do want your baby to get
used to the idea of drinking out of a
sippy cup, especially if you've been
using a bottle up until this point, and it's important to get your
child used to the feeling of drinking a liquid other than formula or water, too.
With the Philips Avent My Natural Drinking
Cup, you can help your child move to the second stage of sippy cup use with no trouble at a
Cup, you can help your
child move to the second stage of
sippy cup use with no trouble at a
cup use with no trouble at all!
If you give your kiddo a
sippy cup try to drink out of it once yourself to make sure it isn't too hard to get liquid out of (
cups with stoppers can be difficult and can cause a
child to
use and overdevelop movements that are more immature)
Sippy cups are an important transition from the bottle, and your
child may
use them for a couple of years.
Offer water and milk in a
sippy cup at mealtimes so your
child becomes accustomed to
using it.
Concerns about a widely
used chemical called bisphenol A (BPA) had become so great that Walmart stopped selling plastic baby bottles and
children's
sippy cups made with it and consumer groups were clamoring for regulators to ban it.
But I have a really easy solution to make sure your
child isn't drinking mold: get rid of the
sippy cups and
use an open glass instead.
As I explain in my Today's Parent article on
sippy cups «
children use an immature, infant - like sucking motion when drinking from a
sippy cup, and the spout prevents the front of the tongue from elevating during swallowing.
It has been 4 years since I had a baby in the house, and have forgotten some of the techniques
used with my first two cildren (my oldest turned 2 two weeks before my second came along) So to get ready for my third
childs 1st birthday next Thursday, Oct. 6 I have been putting her formula in her
sippy cup twice a day.
Also, you will likely want to introduce your
child to
Sippy cups,
used to transition kids from bottles to regular
cups, between one and two years of age.
This water bottle is designed to help smaller
children transition to drinking from a straw instead of
sippy cups, and the push - button lid is super easy for little hands to
use.
They have a low vacuum valve designed to create free flow of liquid but unless your
child is just learning to
use a
sippy cup the flow may be to slow, so the drinking
cup model for older kids might be a better fit.
Most of us were
used to giving our kids plastic
sippy cups to avoid spills but when we found that BPA or Bishpenol A had the potential to harm our
children we sought better options.
The
use of straw
cups does not affect a
child's speech and does not risk the health of a
child's teeth like
sippy cups can.
Using a straw
cup early on eliminates the extra step of weaning a
child from a baby bottle to a
sippy cup and then later to a straw / regular
cup.
We, at Lollacup, believe that decisions like
using a straw
cup vs. a
sippy cup are largely a matter of preference and may not have any long - term effects on
children.
Instead of
using a
sippy cup, go straight to a regular
cup and hold the
cup with the
child until he or she gets the hang of it.
I've researched dozens of alternatives to regular plastic baby bottles and
sippy cups and found nine options that I am comfortable
using with my own
children (ranked in order starting with my favorite).
For at least the first six months, our
children nurse exclusively, so my preferences lean more toward
sippy cups than bottles, but I've included the baby bottles we have
used at times when I've pumped and they work wonderfully as well...
While associated largely with water bottles, and the
sippy -
cups of
children,
use of BPA is widespread in manufacturing, and found in can and pipe coatings, sporting equipment, compact discs, and more.
Health Concerns: The good news is that the FDA banned the
use of BPA in baby bottles and
children's
sippy cups in 2012.