How Do I Get a Strickly Breast Fed Baby Take a Sippy Cup?

My son actually skipped the sippy cup all together and went straight to a straw cup. He saw another little girl at daycare doing it, and wanted to be like her. I also didn't worry too much about giving him a bottle here and there after he was weaned if I felt he needed additional supplementation (if you can get her to take one). Dr. Brown's worked the best for me. By the time he was around two, he was completely off the bottle and getting all his liquids from the cups. Good luck.

You might try several different types of sippy cups. My strictly breastfed baby prefers the kind with a straw.

Yes she will eventually get it. Don't rush it though, she will wean herself when she's ready and if you try to soon she may get very upset and completely avoid the cup.
Have you tried cups with softer spouts? Maybe she'd like something more soft so it reminds her of nursing. I never tried to stop nursing my first, my mom always said she'll stop when she's ready and right at 18 mnths she was done! : )
Just completely didn't want to nurse anymore which made the transition to cup go much more smoothly.

Just give her a little more time. Maybe try again around 11 mnths. Each month really makes such a big difference in their developing minds. : )

Good luck to you!

My 10 month old loves drinking from a regular cup. If I'm having a drink, she expects me to share it. And I usually do. At this point, I'm holding it for her, but she's gotten the hang of drinking from it without making a huge mess by letting the liquid (usually water) fall all down her front. (It took her a few weeks to get that down. She started taking a sippy cup a little after that because I'd let her hold it. I don't put the stoppers in. I personally don't think it's incredibly sanitary. I have the leftover sippy cups from my son, and some of them don't look so clean on the inside of the stoppers. She does fine with them, till she decides she wants to play, then I just take it away from her so she doesn't "water" the house. Tansitioning to a cup now will keep them from getting attached to a sippy cup.

I didn't the same as you are with all three of our kids and I'm currently working with our 9 month old. None of your kids would take a bottle so I just went straight to the sippy cup without the stopper valve. They could not get the sucking down...I guess it's too hard of a suck they use (have you tried drinking from one? Ha!) I found that the cups/bottles with the soft spout worked great. You'll just have to get use to the mess...I always made sure that they had water when I wasn't able to be right beside them to supervise every drink cause without the valve you'll have a mess real quick.

My daughter was strickly breastfeed and refused the bottle. I had to stop breastfeeding when I was in my second trimester with my son due to pre-term labor. I had to quickly get her to start taking a bottle it was very difficult, but after a few days she just started to drink one. You might want to start with that then introduce the sippy cup. If she is taking a bottle o.k. then the sippy cup should come easy for her. When my daughter was 14 months old I decided it was time to get off the bottle she didn't like sippy cups at all, but after 3 days of only offering her a sippy cup she started drinking.

My daughter was both breastfed and bottle fed, but didn't like the sippy cups either. My childcare provider found Nuby cups that have a soft silicone spout that trained my daughter.

Good luck!

Both my children were breastfed. My older would take a bottle for water (like on an airplane) - my younger wanted nothing to do with a bottle or sippy cup. She went directly to a cup. This is not so messy, if you start with water - and do it outside. She became very good at it, and never used a sippy (not always so convenient for the rest of us, as the sippy would have been great for the car!). Anyway, she was happy with a cup - might be an option you could try, at least once a day. Another thing she later liked were the kid's meal cups they offer inrestaurants (lids with short plastic straw). Again, I think this was acceptable because her big sister used one.

Good luck!
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Hey, F.. Yes, she will definitely get it, don't worry. Just keep offering it. A friendly suggestion: put water, not juice in the cup. She should be drinking some water about twice a day pretty soon. Drinking like a "big girl" is its own reward, so she doesn't need sweet stuff. SOmetimes it is hard to get kids to drink/eat healthier choices if they have the "good stuff" first. My daughter prefers water to anything else, and I believe it is because that is the only thing she had from a cup early on. You might try offering it with meals in the high chair while you sip from your own cup. She'll probably want to copy Mama. It is totally normal for her to just chew on the spout (might try to use a soft spout, BTW), or spit out water, etc. One day she'll just "get it."

One more word...don't worry about weaning right at 12 months...unless YOU want to. If you do, then great, go for it. I had some idea that my milk would just magically "go bad" at 12 months, since that is the age the doctor said to wean. On the contrary, breast milk continues to be just as rich that second year. Pediatricians picked the "12 month" mark arbitrarilly (just as they picked 6 months a couple of years ago) as the recommended length of time for BFing. I believe it is because they thought they'd get better compliance than if they said 18 months! My daughter has severe milk and soy allergies, diagnosed at 12 months. I refused to give her that HORRID Nutramagen formula (also VERY expensive), so I talked to some lactation specialists. Long story short, I am happily nursing her at 18 months. We are being tested again, and hopefully she will be allergy-free and able to wean to "Normal" milk when she is ready. I know it makes some people uncomfortable, but I am doing what is best for my baby, and I don't care what people (espeically uninformed or jealous people) think. Good thing about being a SAHM...nobody watching or judging. You are lucky to be able to nourish your daughter in such a special and healthful way. Enjoy it, and good luck!

Leave the stopper out. Or take the lid off entirely. Just put a little in it. You'll be amazed at how quickly she'll learn to drink from a cup without spilling. My youngest daughter learned to drink from a cup without the lid. Actually, sippy cups were messier for her. Those were the ones that she would turn upside down and watch the liquid sprinkle out.

I JUST went through this with my 15 month old! I tried to wean him at a year - he NEVER took a bottle because he is so stubborn - and it was AWFUL! What finally worked for us - of course he was 14 months when I figured it out - was to leave him with my mom for a two days until he FINALLY drank from the cup! I had bought EVERY sippy cup they make thinking that it was the cup, but it wasn't. It was just him being stubborn. He refused ANY drink for over 24 hours, but finally drank when he got thirsty enough! I thought it sounded cruel, but my pedi said that for some kids that is what it takes and he was right! After that, he took the sippy cup with no problem! My first child weaned himself at about 10 1/2 months, but my second boy was having no part of that! Good luck to you and know she will be weaned soon!

We had the same issue with our son who is almost 11 months. We tried several sippy cups and at first he would only take it in a cup without the stopper. We tried the Take and Toss cups, and he was able to drink out of it the first time. They leaked a little so once he got the hang of it we swithced back to the Playtex cups with a stopper. Now he can drink out of any cup. It took a couple of months once he figured it out before he would take more than a couple of sips. He now drinks a small cup of diluted juice in the morning so I can give him an iron supplement. I just weaned him off of one feeding this past week, and he isn't very happy about it but he is having no problems taking formula out of his sippy cup.

Try a sippy cup that isn't spill proof, she won't have to suck on it. Or try a cup with a straw or a sports bottle. In my opinion, a spill proof sippy cup is no different than drinking a bottle so if it's easier for her, just gave her a bottle again.