Everything counts — I know moms who refused to ever
even use sippy cups because they just couldn't handle having any more baby crap around to buy and store and wash.
I thought she was crazy, what 8 month old could know how to use a straw when they couldn't
even use a sippy cup?!
Not exact matches
I
used the
sippy cup consistently with my daughter for months without seeing a tremendous amount of improvement or
even interest from her.
Sippy cups can be
used even when they aren't upright, so encourage your child to drink sitting up.
You can let him enjoy some of his favorite «big kid» foods and maybe
even reserve a special new
sippy cup for him to
use only after «graduating» from breast milk.
This can be done with a
sippy cup or
even using a spoon.
BPA has been
used since the 1960s to make countless everyday products like plastic bottles, food containers, contact lenses, and
even sippy cups and baby bottles.
«After four months, the natural urge for nonnutritive sucking has subsided, and babies are now
using their mouths for nutritional needs, such as sucking on a bottle or breast, eating solid foods, and perhaps
even drinking out of a «
sippy»
cup,» says author and nanny expert Michelle LaRowe of Nanny to the Rescue!
Even after the bottle stage is over we still
use these for
sippy cup parts and pacifiers.
-- I gave mine water in
sippy cup (never had a bottle), always accessible during the day, and at all meal times,
even to play with (a little water on your floor won't hurt it a bit) so they'd get
used to it.
As it turned out, we didn't actually need much: a small, portable booster seat that attaches to a chair (much cleaner and more comfortable for baby than restaurant high chairs, also suitable at homes we visited), diapers (we usually resorted to disposables when we were traveling,
even though we
used cloth at home), a few bibs, clothes, a sling, a
sippy cup (after six months) and a few toys got us through our trips.
Think longer term -
sippy cups, feeding and snacking accessories, and other items will get
used for a couple of years,
even though they won't be needed for the first few months.
Absolutely not — many parents choose not to
use them and it's worth remembering that
sippy cups didn't
even exist when WE were growing up!