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Mine doesn't go to daycare, but all I have is a green sprouts sippy. (Stopped using a few months ago with the lead paint issue, but they have since sent new unpainted glass inserts which I will save for the next baby). I only have a thermos foogoo steel sippy and a thermos stainless steel straw cup. The straw cup I use for water and the sippy for milk. She is 18 months. She was getting a little glass of water or milk at meal times a few months ago, but then she started just pouring it all out onto herself (on purpose) instead of drinking it so I gave her the other two cups instead.

If she was in daycare I'd probably have two of the steel sippy and two of the steel straw cup so I could have a clean one at home all the time in case I ever forgot to bring the daycare home to clean.

We never had a "trainer" cup. DS could always use straw cups just fine, but we used sippy cups most of the time. The ones we had are easier to wash, have less pieces, and didn't spill. When DS was in the toddler room (15 months to 2 years 9 months) we had to send a sippy cup every day with him. They would rinse them but we'd wash them also.

Once he moved up to the preschool room they use little open dixie cups. Unfortunately they forgot to mention that to us until a couple weeks ago, so we were sending and washing sippies (urrgghh). Anyways, we had already decided it was time for open cups and we bought a few small plastic kids tumblers from Target. We did that switch maybe a month ago?

But anyways, I think we had around 12 sippy cups. We needed a lot since he used them for at least 2 meals a day at home, plus one at daycare. We also have a few straw bottles and that close for on the go.

I personally would not bother with any time of transition cup. I also don't really see the benefit in switching to an open cup earlier.

My almost-2 LO has 9 straw cups. He started using them when he was about 10mos. We send him to school with two with cow milk every day. When he was still getting breast milk he got 3 smaller ones. He also has 1 for water that stays at school for the week, and one in use at home for water.

For our current rotation, that means four are in use at any given time, two are dirty, three are clean and ready to pack/use the next day.

He drinks from an open cup (for about the last two months) only while seated at the table. Water/drinks on the go are in a straw cup for mess control.

We have two miracle360 cups that we used to help transition to an open cup. We don't really use them now that he's got the hang of a regular cup because they aren't as good for mess control as straw cups.

@mrs. lemon-lime yes, that's it! i have also seen them for sale at CVS and wegman's.

We started DS on the munchkin 360 cups with handles at 8 months just to practice. He also BF and had BM bottles. He's now 17 months and drinks from a steel large munchkin 360 without handles, a kleen kanteen or an open cup. We bought 4 stainless steel tumblers for him. So he has 1 munchkin, 1 water bottle and 4 open cups. Daycare transitions all kids to open cups once they move into the older toddler room at 16 months.

My kiddo has 2 munchkin 360 cups and 4 basic playtex sippy cups. She also has a straw cup that we only use for smoothies. We have so many mainly for convenience. We didn't need trainer cups, she learned how to drink from an open cup very quickly. At 20 months, we use small jam jars as glasses around the house. When we're out, at work (I'm a nanny and kiddo comes with me) and at night, we use the sippy cups. She learned to use an open cup around 15 months.

I think this is one of those areas where there isn't really a correct way to do it. You don't have to worry about a "transition cup" unless you really want to. We used closed-lid sippy cups from about 12-18 months, then just started giving her open cups after that and she took to them pretty quickly. We put a bib with a scoop-bottom on her in case she spills any.

My 15 month old has 5 zoli cups. Daycare's rule is no open cups (all kids under 3). We will transition to another straw cup around 2

Well, I'm impressed by all you who got your young toddlers onto open cups early. My 20 month old is terrible with an open cup. He pours all the water all over himself, or pours all the water into his mouth all at once and starts coughing and choking. I guess he will figure it out eventually?! I don't know.

We have about a thousand sippies (feels like). We send the Munchkin straw sippies to school and also use the Take & Toss sippies (the straw ones and also the spouted ones). We also have some Munchkin 360 cups we use for water sometimes. And we have some old ones when we first started trying out sippies that had a soft spout.

Washing sippy cups (especially with straws) is the bane of my existence!!! I can't wait till we're past this stage, but it seems like it might be a while.

Both girls can drink from open cups but don't usually because of reasons pp stated. We have about 3 straw cups per kid. Water, juice (they get juice once a day), and an extra just in case.

We didn't really have an in-between. We tried the Wow Cup for a few weeks, but LO didn't really get it.

She goes to a Montessori school, so at 13 months, she started drinking from an open cup.

We do use a Klean Kanteen bottle when we're on the go, but otherwise, just normal cups.

@MrsADS: Have you tried just putting one-two sips in a very small cup? This is how we taught ours (and it's how the Montessori schools teach this skill).

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: we went right to straw cups. He still uses them now at 3 but can use an open cup too... just easier to avoid spills with a straw one. My daughter is 10 months and uses a straw one now too (weighted munchkin one for water, take and toss for smoothies).

DS1 did not understand sippy cups at all - like until he turned 2. And he hated any straw cup with resistance. So we did the Tommee Tippee straw cup with handles and take n toss straw cups to learn. Once he was good at straws we used the 9oz Tommee Tippee straw cups or the Playtex ones with the leakproof seal cut out (4 total). Then we found the Zoomi cups which we love except it's not good for travel bc it doesn't have a lid or anything, so we had 2 of those for home. He practiced drinking water from an open cup in the bath at 18 months and we introduced a Munchkin 360 at 20. The school he started at 2 years uses Dixie cups and he drinks milk from a Foogo in his lunch.

Now at 31 months he does Duralex juice cups at the table, Contigo Gizmo water bottle, and Foogo for milk.