She stopped using a high chair at 1 year, stopped
using a sippy cup by 18 months, and when we started potty training she refused to use a «baby potty» or potty seat.
Demonstrate how to
use a sippy cup by drinking from one yourself.
Not exact matches
Now that baby
sippy cups are meant for
use by babies; hygiene ought to be something that is not negotiable.
By that I mean the Skip hop bottle eureka unicorn is being
used when the baby is almost ready to stop
using baby
sippy cups and move to the next
cups.
It went really well given that she was already
used to being bottle fed
by daddy, she had already begun drinking liquids from her own
sippy cup, and I had gotten her down to just nursing at night before bedtime.
There are a lot of ways you can go green in your kitchen and reduce the chemicals you
use for cleaning, like
using this contemporary bottle drying rack
by organicKidz to air dry your baby bottles and
sippy cups.
That way
by the time they get to their first birthday they are
used to
using a
sippy cup and will transition off the bottles a bit easier.
If you're just starting to offer a
sippy cup at this point, you may have a lot of luck
by only offering cow's milk in the
sippy cup and never
using it for breastmilk or formula.
As the baby's gained more strength, they can gradually learn to pick up objects, transfer them between hands and
use a
sippy cup for drinking
by themself.
It is
by no means essential that your little one
use a
sippy cup at this stage.
First of all, BPA has not been
used to make baby bottles and
sippy cups by American manufacturers for a while now; four years ago Walmart became the new FDA and pulled them off the shelves, pretty much killing the market for them.