https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:58:04 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737988 Sat, 20 May 2017 05:51:38 +0000 Alba4 2737988@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Shantuck: we like the exact same cups. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737776 Fri, 19 May 2017 11:10:05 +0000 Goldengirl 2737776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ALV91711: Can you send me a link to which ones you're talking about? I see some different types online. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737646 Thu, 18 May 2017 23:12:10 +0000 ALV91711 2737646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When DS started solids we gave him water in the take n toss cups with handles. When he got a bit older we switched to ones with no handles. He figured out the cup pretty easily. Straw cups he didn't figure out until about 14 months! </p> <p>Eventually I got him a couple of the 360 ones just for the fact that they don't spill. </p> <p>I liked the take n toss ones because they were cheap. I didn't worry about leaving a couple at daycare. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737632 Thu, 18 May 2017 21:12:10 +0000 Goldengirl 2737632@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Goose: Hmmm no idea, seems weird! Although at least that makes me feel like I don't need to rush :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737610 Thu, 18 May 2017 20:00:15 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2737610@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Goldengirl: yes, those are them! I don't know why it has that age, I assume because people don't recommend babies have water/that they don't need water until then? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737599 Thu, 18 May 2017 18:15:31 +0000 brownepiano 2737599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before DS could figure out the 360 cup, I'd either hold my finger on the edge so it would drip into his mouth, or just take the whole top valve off. This was pretty messy but it helped him learn to tip it up and let less water out than an open cup. </p> <p>For straws we did the same finger and straw drip thing that others mentioned. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737579 Thu, 18 May 2017 16:00:29 +0000 Goldengirl 2737579@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone, lots of good info here! Hadn't even heard of the take and toss cups but seems like there's a lot of fans. I assume that's these? <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/First-Years-Count-Spill-7-Ounce/dp/B003NVVK4S/ref=sr_1_1?s=baby&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1495141100&#038;sr=1-1&#038;keywords=take+and+toss" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.ca/First-Years-Count-Spill-7-Ounce/dp/B003NVVK4S/ref=sr_1_1?s=baby&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1495141100&#038;sr=1-1&#038;keywords=take+and+toss</a> Although it says 9 months plus for some reason...</p> <p>I do offer him sips right from my glass which is the only way he'll get water currently. Just wanted to start with a trainer cup but maybe it's still too early. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737556 Thu, 18 May 2017 14:15:32 +0000 2PeasinaPod 2737556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS1 did not get the concept of a straw cup. It didn't matter how many we tried, he just plain didn't understand what he was supposed to do. The nuk sippy cup with handles was far easier for him to use because it was similar to how he drank his bottle. He had to tilt it back, so he got that right away. He's 4.5 now and has never had any speech issues.</p> <p>DS2 figured out a straw cup as soon as I put it in front of him. I think all kiddos are different. Not every kid knows what to do with a straw, and I think that's ok! Try the sippy cups and maybe you could transition to a straw cup later. I also love the idea of drinking from an open cup in the bath. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737554 Thu, 18 May 2017 14:09:17 +0000 gingerbebe 2737554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Neither of my boys held their own bottles so they really didn't get cups of any kind until almost a year old. I want to say it started really clicking at 11 months for both. It coincided when they started rejecting bottles.</p> <p>At 6 months I'd give them sips of water from my own glass at the table or siphon from a straw.<br /> I also got take n toss straw cups and squeezed the water up the straw into their mouths. We also gave open cups to drink with in the bath. Months went by with no real success but it didn't really matter since they had milk.</p> <p>At 10 months-ish DS1 figured out straws but couldn't deal with sippy cups because he didn't know to tilt his head back. He also did not get bite valve straw cups so we used Tommee Tippee straw cups and Zoomi cups and now as a toddler he uses regular cups or Foogo and Contigo straw cups. He literally mastered open cup before he realized how sippy cups worked. </p> <p>DS2 understood sippy cups better than straws - again around 11 months - but the weekend before his 1st birthday (as in last weekend), something clicked and he started pounding milk and water out of his brother's straw cups! And he does understand bite valves so he is using Munchkin weighted straw cups since they have handles and he still tips his head back like it's a sippy. I like them so much better than Zoli cups. He is also jacking his brother's straw cups fairly regularly but I can tell he still likes having a handle.</p> <p>All this is to say, it's early and don't sweat it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737544 Thu, 18 May 2017 13:56:39 +0000 Mrsbells 2737544@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Goldengirl: my LO is 8 months and still hasnt figured out a straw cup so I give him water in his bottle </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737540 Thu, 18 May 2017 13:42:59 +0000 alphagam84 2737540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have you tried just offering water in a normal cup you hold to the lips? That's what we did and then we moved to the 360 cup. My daughter got frustrated because she couldn't get the water out but after 3 weeks or so she understood. But I think she was closer to 8 months when we introduced the 360 cup and drinking in general. I helped her by pressing down the lip when she would hold it up to her mouth. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737448 Thu, 18 May 2017 09:57:55 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2737448@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: That's what the green sprout cup has. So hard to get liquid out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737447 Thu, 18 May 2017 09:54:33 +0000 ShootingStar 2737447@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For DS I had originally bought those straw cups that had a bite valve on them. Seems like most of the cups out there are those type. And he just didn't get it. And no wonder, when I tried it I could barely get anything out. I ended up switching to the Take n Toss ones because both the sippy and the straw cups are much easier to get stuff out of. And to help him "get" it, we gave him a juice box to try and squeezed it. He liked the flavor of the juice and because we could squeeze it, he figured it out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737427 Thu, 18 May 2017 08:59:30 +0000 sauerkraut 2737427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You've got a lot of good cup suggestions, so I'll just add that at around 6mos I started always giving her sips of water from a regular cup at meals. She drank a lot more that way early on, before she got the hang of straw cups, and I figure if I keep it up, she'll have an easier transition to open cups once she's able to handle one on her own without spilling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737414 Thu, 18 May 2017 08:32:05 +0000 SweetiePie 2737414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: Thanks for linking! I was at the airport solo with my 2.5yo yesterday so my response was brief.</p> <p>ETA: they include straws with the honeybear but you can also just use a regular disposable bendy straw. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737413 Thu, 18 May 2017 08:29:33 +0000 peaches1038 2737413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We introduced the munchkin 360 at 6 months and it took him about 6 weeks to really get it. We just offered it at all meals and showed him how to do it over and over. I wasn't worried about how much he got at that age. For the straw, we did what other posters said and used ourbfinger over it to get some and then put it in his mouth. It took him about a day to get that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737412 Thu, 18 May 2017 08:19:39 +0000 Mamaof2 2737412@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: @Goldengirl: another vote for the honey bear! <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Talktools-Honey-Drinking-Flexible-Straws/dp/B013RAKUQS/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1495113565&#038;sr=8-3&#038;keywords=honey+bear" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Talktools-Honey-Drinking-Flexible-Straws/dp/B013RAKUQS/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1495113565&#038;sr=8-3&#038;keywords=honey+bear</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737389 Thu, 18 May 2017 07:47:02 +0000 erinbaderin 2737389@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It took W what felt like FOREVER to learn to use any kind of cup. We just kept offering and letting him mess around with them - both sippies and straws. For a long time he'd drink out of a sippy cup but wouldn't hold it himself, it was like feeding a baby goat because we had to hold it up for him and he'd just drink from it - when he was thirsty he'd just hand us a cup and yell until we held it up for him. We joked about getting him a big hamster-style water bottle. Eventually he figured them both out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737384 Thu, 18 May 2017 07:06:01 +0000 littlebug 2737384@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Miss Ariel: That is a brilliant idea! A loves to try to drink out of an open cup, but just dumps it all over herself and winds up soaking wet. Why did I never think to do it in the tub? Duh... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737374 Thu, 18 May 2017 05:34:44 +0000 Silva 2737374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are working on teaching my son to use a straw cup but it's been slow going. My daughter licked it up relatively quickly</p> <p>We just use a small open cup (or shot glass) with meals. I hold it for him so he doesn't just dump it and he takes sips. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737365 Thu, 18 May 2017 01:49:59 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2737365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used take and toss sippys with or without the lid in the infant room at a daycare I worked at. They worked well because they're really light and the water just pours out of the three little holes in the hard spout so even if you don't suck you're getting a dribble. </p> <p>I gave my kiddo a green sprouts sippy at 6 months. They're heavy and kind of hard to suck out of (I tried), but she figured it out in about a month. I also put straws in open cups and held them for her and gave her sips just from a regular cup.</p> <p>I started giving my daughter water for the same reason as you. It was hot outside and I wanted something extra besides breast milk but I give her. If they're interested they can figure it out fairly quickly. I haven't heard much about sippy cups negatively impacting speech development to be honest. Everyone I have ever known in life, myself included, has used a variety of different spouts, cups, nipples, straws, as a child and their speech has been just fine. Just throwing that out there. When things like bottles or sippy cups are used for a very extended period of time I guess it could cause issues-but most people don't use them for long enough to cause that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737364 Thu, 18 May 2017 01:06:11 +0000 DesertDreams88 2737364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Goldengirl: A hard sippy is one with a hard spout, like a take &amp; toss or many other cheaper brands. A soft sippy has a soft spout, like a Nuk Learner cup. </p> <p>We tried everything and LO uses them all. We had out best success with the Nuk Learner cup bc it was like a bottle, and then Take &amp; Toss simultaneously with the 360.</p> <p>I'd like to get him on the 360 exclusively but they're expensive and we need 4 a day, I don't like to refill (I lose track of how much he drinks) and I like to wash each night because they have milk in them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737309 Wed, 17 May 2017 19:35:01 +0000 Goldengirl 2737309@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pollywog: Haha, mine just threw his on the ground today and broke it! He literally does not understand what it is. Which I guess makes sense! also: what's a hard sippy vs soft? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737251 Wed, 17 May 2017 16:48:58 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2737251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The very first Sippy we gave LO to try was a Pura spout. He could use it like a bottle. He wasn't good at it and by the time we were ready for him to really learn giving him a straw Sippu was the best idea.</p> <p>Not that it likely helped, but I drink from a straw to model for LO. </p> <p>If the goal is to get your baby drinking water in the heat put the water in a bottle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737246 Wed, 17 May 2017 16:41:36 +0000 Pollywog 2737246@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a hard sippy from months 6-8 (a bottle with handles would also work), then a soft sippy for months 9-10, then a straw cup. He didn't get the cup until 10 months or so. He used it to create noise </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737232 Wed, 17 May 2017 16:23:52 +0000 Miss Ariel 2737232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Once their able to sit you can start giving them an actual cup to try out in the bath. This way they can learn how to drink out of an actual cup, but since they're in the bath it won't matter if they get wet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737207 Wed, 17 May 2017 15:38:06 +0000 Shantuck 2737207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use a weighted straw cup (Zoli) and a Nuk learner cup with our 6 month old. The Nuk cup is great because it is cheap and similar to a bottle nipple. A baby book I have suggested putting formula in the cup rather than water at this stage because babies are more motivated to drink that than just water so we've been putting warmed up formula in the Zoli cup with great success. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737205 Wed, 17 May 2017 15:37:48 +0000 Littlebit7 2737205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Raspberry: yep did this as well and it works like a charm. I think we did it at 6 months. There's a YouTube video showing it as well </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737204 Wed, 17 May 2017 15:37:43 +0000 SweetiePie 2737204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had this issue with my son. My ped told me to get the honeybear. It's on Amazon. You can squeeze the bear and it comes up the straw and helps teach them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-water-to-baby#post-2737201 Wed, 17 May 2017 15:30:52 +0000 bees_knees 2737201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Raspberry: we did this too</p> <p>If LO still struggles, try mixing a little bit of apple juice (or in our case, prune juice haha) into the water. Once they get a taste of the "good stuff", they catch on pretty quickly 😂 </p>