What age do you start using a cup?
Printed From: OHbaby!
Category: Have A Baby?
Forum Name: First baby? Second or more?
Forum Description: Want help? Need support? Want tips? Men and women share advice and tips in this supportive community
URL: https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19481
Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 8:40pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.10 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: What age do you start using a cup?
Posted By: EmDee
Subject: What age do you start using a cup?
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 5:43pm
|
Following on from Bizzy's post, at what age/stage would you introduce a cup? I'm heading back to work when Lily is 5 months old so she will have EBM during the day (and possibly formula if I can't keep up with her).
If I can avoid the bottle I would be happy. I have a 2yr old that still has a bottle - though admittedly I haven't tried to change it yet. At what age did you try your babies with cups and how did it work out? ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
Replies:
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 6:21pm
|
Both of my boys were 10mths when I introduced the cup.
Nyah was alot harder, she had a bottle until she was 2. She would only use a cup on her terms! ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
|
Posted By: Tiff
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 6:52pm
|
If I recall correctly most cups say from 6 months onwards, but there may be a brand/style or 2 out there that have a younger starting age. And at the end of the day it is only a recomendation, one of my friends started her girl on a cup at just over 5 months. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
|
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 7:10pm
|
Maya had water from an Avent magic cup with the 3 mth + spout from about 5 mths but refused to take EBM or formula from a cup so when I weaned her off the breast at 10 mths she had to have a bottle. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
|
Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 7:37pm
|
Keziah has only been using a cup properly for the past month... before that she would blatantly refuse to drink from it, and would just blow bubbles into it LOL (we still use it without the valve part that controls the flow)
We gave her a little bit of very watery juice in it one day and she was a convert  Now she has water in it everyday-------------  
|
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 7:57pm
|
I started a cup at around 11mos but it's so difficult to watch them to make sure that pouring water out and asking for more doesn't become a sport!! I'd put the 5mo on a bottle for cleanliness' sake. ------------- |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 8:19pm
|
what about those cups with teats on them? ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
|
Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 8:38pm
Yeah I was thinking maybe starting with one of those and as she gets a bit older changing to a sippy cup. She does seem a bit young to understand how a cup works 
Thanks  ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
Bizzy wrote: