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Check out the LifeFactory products. A friend of mine does glass bottles and she started using those for her LO when they started sippy/straw cups.

Plastic, but DD loves the Zoli cup! Like, maybe a little too much! She's 2 now and still prefers to drink out of the Zoli than anything else.

@regberadaisy: my DH shares your hatred of the Zoli but I still love it!

It's plastic but the platex lil trainer cup is what taught my LO to use a straw. It's just a little squeezy so you can squeeze a little water up the straw so they can figure it out. But it sounds like your Lo might not need that.

Maybe you could start with something cheap and basic until she has a better handle on things, then get the bigger life factory ones? We use take and toss cups for milk at home, but they leak and she has dropped then and the cap came off, and a stainless steel thermos foogo- still a plastic straw, but the metal is nigh lighter than glass.

They are plastic as well, but we have loved the lollacups.

Zoli was the easiest for her to learn out of - the water comes up really easily. It leaks for anything else other than water so now that she's older we use Vital baby cups 90% of the item and the Zolis for water occasionally

We have this green sprouts cup which has some plastic but the liquid only touches glass or silicon. The straw is a little tricky to drink from if they are just learning so we may do a take and toss until she learns. It does have a sippy top too.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GD0YFJS/ref=mp_s_a_1_14?qid=1427802651&sr=8-14&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&keywords=GREEN+SPROUTS

ZoLi

We just bought these sipsnap silicone covers you put over any glass/cup and insert a regular straw in. Maybe that's an option and then you could use whatever cup you wanted? My LO has been refusing to drink out lf anything but a regular straw.

ETA: might be hard for a 6mo old but down the road after getting used to something like the ZoLi?

@MenagerieMama: the Zoli was all my first used. With my second we also used on but she learned on a regular straw first/same time. She much prefers a regular straw over any of the silicone straw cups she has. You'll never know if you don't give her a chance to try!