Ok, so I get a little hyped up about things… I definitely “worst case scenario” things to death. For example, “he’s not taking the sippy so he will never take the sippy OR this means he is hitting a developmental delay and we need to take him to see someone.” Oh yea, it’s awesome in my head.
Zach now does just fine with his sippy. The best thing we did was just eliminate the bottle during the day. Yes, this meant that, at first, he didn’t get as much fluid intake as I would have liked. I will say that he quickly caught on and on day one he proved to me that if he got thirsty enough, he would drink.
We did get several different kinds of sippys to see which one he took to. We found it and after he took to that more and really got comfortable with it that he will now take pretty much any of the sippys if needed (so that money didn’t go to waste).
I think, if I was doing it over again, I would introduce and encourage the sippy earlier. We gave it to him plenty early but didn’t really push it very much. I wouldn’t say that I would force him to use it much younger BUT I would encourage it more. If that makes sense. It does in my head.
I will also say, just my two cents, that I do not give him juice. Some people say to put juice in the sippy to encourage it. I find juice relatively pointless and from what I have seen with other babies at daycare it just makes them refuse water. We have stood firm on a no juice policy. For a while I thought maybe juice would make him transition better- well, we didn’t do it and he transitioned (in hindsight) just fine.
So… sippy… check!
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