sippy cups  

I got my daughter the cups that had straws, they are still sippys with handles, but the straw made a huge difference. I hope this helps.

If you are no longer giving her a bottle, she will eventually drink from the cup when she is thirsty enough. If she is allowed to have the bottle at the same time of trying to get her to drink from the cup, of course she will most likely refuse the cup. So I say be done with the bottle and just offer the cup to her. Have a good day. =)

It took my twins quite a long time to learn to us ethe sippycups. I left them around all the time with water in so that they could play with them. Occasionally I put milk in them to see if they would drink it but they usually just cried for their bottle. Every few weeks I would try them with milk in and give them the cups in place of the bottle. Once they had been using the cups for a few months I decided to try them on the bedtime feed as well. Now my one son is fine with that. My other son takes his milk at bedtime from the sippycup but then cries for his bottle as he likes to have it in the cot all night (with water in). So he is still having the bottle at night and he is 19 months. He uses it as his comfort blanket - his brother has a cloth that he sucks instead. I have toyed with the idea of stopping him having it but it seems mean in a way. We only just got him sleeping through the night at 16 months and this was by letting him have the bottle for when he wakes up so that he can settle himself. he still wakes up quite a bit but doesn'y cry all the time anymore so i do not want to take away the bottle for a while yet.

Weaning her off the bottle at a year is a good idea but it doesnt HAVE to be that soon. I would keep trying, get her one with straws and see if that helps. Otherwise, you are just going to have to get tough as she gets closer to a year of age. She will eventually drink from it when she realizes that she wont get milk any other way. My daughter put up a fight but it only lasted a few days as we continually gave her a sippy cup for each time she was thirsty.

give it time. she will get use to it. my kids all chewed on the tops of the sippy cups. just keep introducing it to her and she will get the hang of it. you still have plenty of time to get her off the bottle.

Why does she have to be off the bottle by a year? I'm sorry if that seems nosy, but I've known people to give their children bottles till they are around three. In the next three months though there will be a big difference in what she will tolerate. My son wouldn't take any type of sippy cup until around ten months old and he was off the bottle by a year. I gave him his formula in a bottle and then when he switched to milk he got it in a cup. I have an 8 month old who wouldn't take anything but a bottle, but I keep trying every week or so and now sometimes she'll take a little water or juice from the sippy cup.