Hellobee Boards

We've used the Thermos Funtainer bottles (they have straws) for DS since he was about a year old so he could learn to drink water out of it. They are pretty easy to clean IMO (do need a small straw brush). Only con might be that it might be hard for small baby hands to hold it since there's no side handles.

we always used the thermos foogo straw cups. you do need a small brush to clean out the straw part, but they were generally fine. i only use them for water, and serve milk in an open cup at meals only. sometimes we used the munchkin 360 for milk at meals if I didn't feel like helping/being cautious with the open cup- but we used the plastic ones for that.

once they are old enough (and ASAP) I switch them to a klean kanteen water bottle with the regular spout. easy to clean!

When we started using a water bottle around six months, we used a Pura with the silicone straw. LO eventually chewed through the straws, but this worked well for several months, and we used a second bottle to transition away from nipple bottles for breastmilk without any hiccups. One of the bottles did end up becoming convex on the bottom after being dropped one too many times, which was annoying, but the other is still in our rotation at 2.5 years, with their sport cap on it.

After LO turned one year and chewed through the Pur straws, we tried a Thermos sippy for a while, but I didn't love it (leaky, and too many pieces). We do love the Klean Kanteen. LO can use both the sippy and sport tops (prefer the sport as I can toss it in my bag and it doesn't leak), and I like that we can keep the same bottles and just change out the tops as she grows. Nice wide mouth and easy to clean.

Unfortunately, there's no particular pattern to which type of o-ring we've gotten. We got some of each on the ones we ordered years ago...and some of each on the ones we got earlier this year. We started using them at 8-9 mos and transitioned from bottles to straw completely by 11 mos.

@hellobear: we started the 360 cup at 6 months. We never did a spouted sippy cup. We moved to a kleen kanteen with a sports cap around 10/11months when out of the house and to an open cup at home (we used a shot glass actually when we first started). Now at 2.75, he drinks out of our normal glasses and refuses a “kids cup” with a top and straw at restaurants and at friends houses he won’t drink out of a kids plastic cup. He only wants a glass cup hahah. We still use the kleen kanteen as well

@hellobear: try a shot glass of water. My kids were able to manage open cups way earlier than you might think and shot glasses work perfectly. For out and about you will want a water bottle, but I prefer getting to open cups ASAP at the table

@hellobear: no, the valve can’t come off. But a toothy toddler can chew the end (but she did this with every straw cup)