The Sippy Cup Cure

As most of you know we have had quite the issue with using a sippy cup. When Josiah was 6 months old we started using this sippy cup...

We soon realized that that one wasn't going to work and heard about these soft spout sippy cups that look like this..

I thought all our problems would be solved and quickly realized that he wasn't going to take that sippy cup either. I figured it was because he was so young and thought I would just keep trying. By the time he turned a year we had purchased what seemed to be a hundred (not literally) different kinds of sippy cups all ranging in price and none that worked.


I was at my wits end thinking my son would never be able to drink from a cup. I had heard someone say they used shot glasses to teach their child to drink from a cup and while we do not own any shot glasses I thought I could use the cap to our Avent bottles.


This appeared to work. I had used other "regular" cups before and he wouldn't drink from those so when I tried the bottle cap I figured it was going to be rejected like everything else I had tried. To my surprise he drank from it and still does. I was still hung up on this sippy cup thing because although it was great he would drink from a "cup" I wanted him to be able to drink from a sippy cup for certain situations like at church or the car. I was recommended a sippy cup that looks more like a bottle so I went out and bought this...

Didn't work.

Then I was recommended a sippy cup with a straw. The next time I was at Target I looked around and found to my surprise quite a few sippy cups with straws....hmmmm...which one to buy? I figured the most expensive was probably the way to go (we live 90 miles from the nearest Target and I was sick of buying sippy cups so I thought the most expensive would be the one that worked the best). Yeah right! He hated it. I was thinking come on I just spent another 5 bucks on another sippy cup that doesn't work. Frustrated I thought that I should try and take a drink from it in front of him to encourage it and found out that I could hardly drink from it. It was incredibly hard to suck from.

The next time I was at the grocery story I was walking past the baby food aisle and thought I would take a look. They had these sippy cups with straws that were called "Throw & Go" cups. It was just a basic cup with a lid and a straw and considerably cheap for a pack of 4. I thought, what the heck I've already spent a bunch of money on sippy cups what's another couple of dollars, so I bought them. And what do you know....they worked! Josiah is now a trained professional at drinking from a sippy cup with a straw and I couldn't be happier!

Here's the winning sippy cup...