Talktools Honey Bear Drinking Cup with 2 Flexible Straws - Includes Instructions - Spill-proof Lid by TalkTools

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months: Start by introducing water to your baby in an open “side sipping cup” (see recommendations below) a few times throughout the day (e.g. mealtime). You will hold the cup and offer your baby tiny sips from the rim. This will train your baby’s tongue to start to elevate to the correct, mature swallowing posture. At first this may be difficult for your baby, but with practice it will become more natural! Like other weighted straw cups, this one dispenses liquid at any angle, which helps babies new to cups learn to drink more easily. But Dr. Brown's Milestones boasts a few features that make it better for travel than competitors. First, like Dr. Brown’s bottles, they're narrow, making it easier to fit into all the bags you're already using to carry around bottles. This also allows them to fit into your car's cup holders.

Sippy Cups and Speech Development - Jocelyn M. Wood Sippy Cups and Speech Development - Jocelyn M. Wood

We recommend that you continue to offer your baby BOTH open cups and straw cups as your baby transitions off of bottles. This way your baby/toddler will be comfortable using various drinking cups while maintaining a mature swallow and proper tongue placement. Finally a cup my daughter loves!I’ve tried a bunch of different bottles and started trying straw or open cups. Finally we found one she loves! The fact that I could squeeze it for her was so helpful so she could understand how it worked. Now she can drink from a straw independently. She also will just start playing with it and most every time it doesn’t leak. The only time it does is if she gives it a squeeze (since the liquid is supposed to come up anyways). So I wouldn’t say it’s completely leak-proof for those babies who like to play. But for the average tip over and shake—no leaks! So glad we finally found something that works for her. ARK’s Bear Bottle is recommended for individuals who tend to aspirate or have difficulties generating and maintaining suction. Alexandra Bisonó, Senior Art Director for Everyday Health Group, says that her daughter only took a few minutes to learn how to use the honey bear straw cup, and after understanding how they worked, she was able to move on to other straw cups. The honey bear cups are often a great option for children having trouble making the transition from bottles: BabyCenter Senior SEO Content Strategist Sarah Darby says "I tried to get my son to drink from a straw for almost two months with little success. After we tried the honey bear cup, he was drinking from a straw that same day at 9 months." The cup is used by speech and feeding therapists around the world to teach lip rounding, tongue retraction and other oral-motor skills.

Why do we ask parents to be off the bottle? For one it is really bad on the teeth. It allows the sugary substances to hang out in the mouth a little longer than they should. It is also thought that if once a child is older and feeding themselves that if they are walking around with a bottle in their mouth all the time they will not use their mouth to communicate.

2 Pack Honey Bear Straw Cups with 4 Flexible Straws

Julian is now 14 months and crawling around, pulling himself up on furniture, signing more and starting to wave hi!The goal in the 6- to 12-month age range is to practice the skills of cup drinking—not to replace the breast or bottle. Starting open cup practice early (ideally around 6 months of age) allows your baby plenty of low-pressure time to hone cup skills before transitioning off bottles or breastfeeds. If you’ve missed this window and your baby is now 12 months or older, all is not lost! Your 12+-month-old still has time to learn this skill! Which cup should I use for my baby? There are many sippy cups on the market—soft spouts, firm spouts, with handles, or without handles. But, as feeding specialists, we have to reiterate that we don’t love sippy cups and instead recommend you focus on straw cups when on-the-go or in need of a mess-free meal. Why? Sippy cups encourage your baby to use their tongue in a way that is not ideal for cup or straw drinking. Plus, as soon as your baby masters a sippy cup, it’s time to conquer more mature cup skills, which adds an unnecessary step (and expense) to the process. Place the straw in the child’s mouth and squeeze the cup gently to let liquid from the straw travel directly to the child’s mouth. Gauge your child’s reaction to the liquid in their mouth.