Monday, 16 November 2009

Moving from breast or bottle to an open cup

One of the most common questions we get in the shop is how to successfully weaning a baby from breat or bottle onto a cup. It seems that every single mum has bought virtually every cup or beaker on the market; non-spill, free flow, hard spout, soft spout or no spout it feels like all of them are lacking something.

For what its worth, we usually advise a two stage approach - use a doidy cup for the very first sips of water or milk and then for independent drinking or for taking a drink out and about we feel you can do no better than a thermos fliptop beaker.

The doidy cup has been around for a long time now but its clever sloping design makes it very easy for babies to judge where the surface of their drink is and so helps them to decide how much to tip and reduces spill. A word of warning though - Doidy cups are definately not a no-spill cup!

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