Babies
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Just put an ounce of water in the sippy cup. Not formula. She needs her nutrition from the formula and won't likely get an adequate amount from a sippy right away. Let her practice with the water. Then after a year when she is ready for milk, you can start putting it in the sippy cup. Or better yet a real cup! Don't stress, she'll get it! :)
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I used the Nuk sippy cups with the handles for my son. I put 50% water and 50% apple juice in it and just gave it to him to play with in his high chair and just let him explore it by himself for a bit then showed him how to use it and he took to it quite quickly.
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start by getting a soft one, then move to harder ones -- if the hard ones have a valve in them, some of them are hard to get anything out of, you can take the valve out to start with.
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I agree with using water instead, maybe even with a tiny bit of juice mixed in, if she has difficulty getting formula out and gets frustrated it might turn her off of the sippy cup completely.
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Water goes in the sippy, formula in a bottle. You can put cows milk in the sippy once she's old enough and doesn't need the bottle anymore.
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The sippys that she has dont have valves. They have the handles on the side and are soft nipples. I always thought too get them off a bottle you just put the formula in the sippy.
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Quoting TessaRae01:
The sippys that she has dont have valves. They have the handles on the side and are soft nipples. I always thought too get them off a bottle you just put the formula in the sippy.They still need a bottle for the oral stimulation until at least 12-18 mo. You can work on weaning from the bottle when she's ready... but she should be off formula by then.
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Quoting SewingMamaLele:
Water goes in the sippy, formula in a bottle. You can put cows milk in the sippy once she's old enough and doesn't need the bottle anymore.
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I never knew that. :-( My DD weaned herself off the bottle at 6 months. She had tried to wean at 3 months, when I was unable to pump any longer (she wouldn't latch), but I was able to get her to take it till 5 months when she would only take the bottle at night. By 6, she refused it all together. By refuse, I mean, she'd throw the bottle across the room and rather starve over having to deal with that thing. We put her formula in a NUK soft spout sippy bc she wouldn't have gotten it any other way.
Quoting SewingMamaLele:
Quoting TessaRae01:
The sippys that she has dont have valves. They have the handles on the side and are soft nipples. I always thought too get them off a bottle you just put the formula in the sippy.They still need a bottle for the oral stimulation until at least 12-18 mo. You can work on weaning from the bottle when she's ready... but she should be off formula by then.
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Well, if she's the one rejecting it, then she may not have high oral needs (or she's getting her sucking from a paci or her fingers)... I just mean that you shouldn't actively work to take the bottle away so early. Babies are meant to be nipple fed for at least the first 2 years... they can adapt, and they're all different, but that's just the biological norm.
Quoting squeakers2:
I never knew that. :-( My DD weaned herself off the bottle at 6 months. She had tried to wean at 3 months, when I was unable to pump any longer (she wouldn't latch), but I was able to get her to take it till 5 months when she would only take the bottle at night. By 6, she refused it all together. By refuse, I mean, she'd throw the bottle across the room and rather starve over having to deal with that thing. We put her formula in a NUK soft spout sippy bc she wouldn't have gotten it any other way.
Quoting SewingMamaLele:
Quoting TessaRae01:
The sippys that she has dont have valves. They have the handles on the side and are soft nipples. I always thought too get them off a bottle you just put the formula in the sippy.They still need a bottle for the oral stimulation until at least 12-18 mo. You can work on weaning from the bottle when she's ready... but she should be off formula by then.