https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:59:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127787 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:22:15 +0000 getjazzy 2127787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Although the Zoli eventually leaked for us and I tossed them, they were the perfect starter cup and I will probably do them again for LO2. Just be careful to clean well in the straw as I've heard of people discovering mold in there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127784 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:21:04 +0000 anbanan15 2127784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127716 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:37:13 +0000 MenagerieMama 2127716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cole: love it! This is just the kind of thing I was looking for.</p> <p>@anbanan15: that looks genius! If she really can work a regular straw like my DH thinks we'll have to try it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127690 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:15:10 +0000 anbanan15 2127690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>ZoLi</p> <p>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.</p> <p>ETA: might be hard for a 6mo old but down the road after getting used to something like the ZoLi?</p> <p>[attach=482/15/nm2vha.600x260.image.jpg]</p> <p>[attach=482/15/nm2vhb.600x505.image.jpg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127660 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:35:02 +0000 Little Misters Mom 2127660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Love the Zoli. The trick to avoiding leaks is not to screw the lid on too tight. But he was able to use it by 6-7 months. Also, sippy cup might be a good place for an exception to avoiding plastic. DS really chucks his across the room now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127632 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 06:57:20 +0000 Cole 2127632@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GD0YFJS/ref=mp_s_a_1_14?qid=1427802651&#038;sr=8-14&#038;pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&#038;keywords=GREEN+SPROUTS" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GD0YFJS/ref=mp_s_a_1_14?qid=1427802651&#038;sr=8-14&#038;pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&#038;keywords=GREEN+SPROUTS</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127624 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 06:48:57 +0000 My Only Sunshine 2127624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MenagerieMama: My LO likes these from Target - they usually have seasonal ones too, so she just got a bunny one for Easter.</p> <p><a href="http://www.target.com/p/owl-and-fox-straw-sippy-cup-set-of-2-multicolor/-/A-15450155#prodSlot=medium_1_8&#038;term=straw+cup" rel="nofollow">http://www.target.com/p/owl-and-fox-straw-sippy-cup-set-of-2-multicolor/-/A-15450155#prodSlot=medium_1_8&#038;term=straw+cup</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127570 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 04:50:51 +0000 Charm54 2127570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127547 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:28:19 +0000 PurplePeony 2127547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO's first straw cup was a Lollacup. TBH, it's pretty much impossible to avoid plastic...I tried but LO hated the sippy caps for the small Lifefactory bottles and the big one was just way too big (still is at 16 mo). We do have a Thermos Foogo in stainless steel, which she likes, but they're pricey. I think the only real alternative to the SS Foogo is Kleen Kanteen, which I haven't tried. Her favorites are the Munchkin click-lock straw cups because they limit the flow of liquid so she doesn't choke herself by getting too big a mouthful, but those started working a little later on. I don't love that she drinks from plastic cups so much, but I'm not as worried as I was with bottles because she's only getting cold liquids in them. It was the constant heating up of bottles that really made me insist on glass. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127500 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 22:10:49 +0000 MsMini 2127500@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They are plastic as well, but we have loved the lollacups. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127496 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 22:08:50 +0000 birdofafeather 2127496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Another vote for zoli. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127486 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:51:00 +0000 Foodnerd81 2127486@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127462 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:22:36 +0000 Tanjowen 2127462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MenagerieMama: Thinking in it, she does use the 12 oz size! Her LO was 12 months when they started using it so I guess the bigger size worked at that point. If sippy cups are an option they do make sippy cup tops for the bottles. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127456 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:15:50 +0000 cmomma17 2127456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: my DH shares your hatred of the Zoli :silly: but I still love it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127448 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:10:30 +0000 regberadaisy 2127448@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We like thinkbaby thinkster. I hated the Zoli - leaked like a b!tch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127444 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:08:14 +0000 shopaholic 2127444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127415 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:36:13 +0000 MenagerieMama 2127415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Tanjowen: I have their water bottle for myself and we have a couple of the 4 oz bottles for LO - I can't find a straw top for anything smaller than 12 oz which seems big! Did she have a smaller one? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127411 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:34:29 +0000 Tanjowen 2127411@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127407 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:32:06 +0000 cmomma17 2127407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's plastic, but my LO took to a Zoli cup right away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-beginner-straw-cup#post-2127390 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:20:35 +0000 MenagerieMama 2127390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So, LO loves watching us drink and we figured she couldn't figure out how to use a regular straw yet so we let her chew on our cups with straws a couple times since we've been out and about. And...pretty sure LO's first non-BF food/drink might have been root beer! Oops, mom fail. We saw some soda in the straw when we took the cup back from her and DH is convinced she drank some, I don't think so, but either way I want to get her a cup for herself! She's 6 mo and we *just* started solids, doing BLW so far (okay just ate some sweet potato sticks tonight for the first time!). </p> <p>Big picture I'd like to avoid plastic for her as much as possible (we do glass bottles) but clearly I think this is one area which will be hard! So just want to know what you like to start off with, especially for an LO who seems to have maybe figure out the straw thing already ;) </p>