My son is 14 1/2 months old. He will only use the sippys that have the silicone tops because he can chew them and get his milk/ juice out. He will try a regular sippy for about 10 seconds but when chewing it doesn't work, he gives up. I love the silicone topped sippys but i found a small hole in one of his bottle nipples today so if he is destroying them he is going to destroy the sippys too. I seriously need some advice on how to get him to switch to regular sippys. Thank you!
I think he wants to drink out of the sippys, it's more a problem of teaching him to suck on them. He tries to drink out of them and tilts them up and everything, he just won't suck on them so he doesn't get anything and gets mad.
Try a straw cup. My son never liked, or used sippy cups. He started with a straw up, at around 9 months.
Neither one of my kids liked sippy cups with the lovely hard-leak proof spouts (arg!) So when my first born was about 14mos. and i was sick of wiping milk off the tile, i just changed the content of what was IN the cup. For breakfast i made a delish smoothie with banana and yogurt and milk(OK, and a lil ice cream, i wanted it to be reaaaalllyy tempting) and let her taste it, then put it in the sippy of my choice and she it drank without complaining, every morning she looked forward to her smoothie and after a few days forgot completely about her distain towards mom-friendly style sippy. Sounds like your son loves to teethe on his cup, which was a big thing for my son also, so i started getting those big giant pacifiers and dunking them in a cup of water and sucking water inside and freezing them, i had about 10. It helped him satisfy his chew and didnt miss his leaky cups. Good Luck Mama!!
my baby did the same thing (he is a mnth older than ur son) he destroyed his nipples by trying to stick his finger through them. my mom got him a regular one for his bday and he never wanted to used it. one day I was behind on the dishes and his other ones were dirty so I told him that he would have to deal with the turtle cup (thats what we call it cuz its decorated with turtles) he cried and through a fit and wouldnt use it but everytime he asked for "num nums" that day I gave him that cup, and he used it. you son is not going to let himself go thristy just stop giving him the silicone topped cups
We has the same issue with our second child. We tried straw cups and he switched over in a day once we eliminated the bottle. He chewed holes in the straws too, but you just get the kind with replacable straws (munchkin) ro even disposible cups to learn on. Our son never took to sippy cups, just to a straw cup and now we are working on an open cup. It's a little like finding the right pacifier, it's a little trial and error.
Good luck.
i'm sorry for ya'...i know your frustration. i swear, i bought every single type of sippy cup there was and those things aren't cheap! i was stressing about the sippy cup issue when my son was about the same age. but i look back and "remember" it being a smooth transition, when hell no it wasn't a smooth transition! we worked for months for him to be able to use one! so although this may not help that much, most of the changes/growths (if that's a word) we're looking for w/our babies just happen naturally. probably by the end of this month, well actually dec., he'll be doing just fine on the sippy cup. i would say keep introducing it but don't stress yourself out about that kinda stuff. i say that b/c i TRY not to, but it happens. it all comes w/time when he's ready to switch. he's not gonna be 3 or 8 or 12 still using the silicone ones, y'know! :) (trying to cheer you up).
take a deep breath, he's just a baby, he's chillin & likes his silicone cups. :)
THe important thing is to not give up. Keep only offering him a sippy cup and eventually he will realize it is his only option.
Sounds like it is time for a regular cup. Set dear child's chair over top of a plastic tablecloth on the floor for easy clean up.
My first son was the same exact way. He wouldn't use the hard top cups till around 15 months. I have no idea what the change was, but one day I tried it again after about a month of not trying, and he took to it right away.
Perhaps just give him some more time. I know that isn't the best advice, but that was the only thing that worked for us.
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