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Advice needed pls. 1yr old still chokes using sippy cups
Hello,
I have been giving my 1 year old a sippy cup since she was 6 months old. She doesn't mind it but after a few sips, she still chokes and coughs. It doesn't discourage her but sure makes it impossible to wean her off her milk bottles. I want her to use cups exclusively but I can't risk it while she is not drinking well out of sippy cups for water and diluted juice. I have tried 3 kinds of sippy cups, even regular cups but she cannot get enough fluid this way. She has no problem drinking out of a bottle, she has such a powerful suck she is like a hoover, I have never seen any baby drain a bottle like she did when she was a small baby. I keep forgetting to ask her pediatrician about this problem. Is this a medical problem or do some children just take longer to get used to it? thanks, Idas |
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Advice needed pls. 1yr old still chokes using sippy cups
"Idas" wrote in message
m... Hello, I have been giving my 1 year old a sippy cup since she was 6 months old. She doesn't mind it but after a few sips, she still chokes and coughs. It doesn't discourage her but sure makes it impossible to wean her off her milk bottles. I want her to use cups exclusively but I can't risk it while she is not drinking well out of sippy cups for water and diluted juice. I have tried 3 kinds of sippy cups, even regular cups but she cannot get enough fluid this way. She has no problem drinking out of a bottle, she has such a powerful suck she is like a hoover, I have never seen any baby drain a bottle like she did when she was a small baby. I keep forgetting to ask her pediatrician about this problem. Is this a medical problem or do some children just take longer to get used to it? thanks, Idas Is she using one of those spill-proof ones with a valve? It may be that the valve is loose enough that she's getting too much in her mouth after a few sips and can't control the liquid. My daughter has a swallowing dysfunction and did much better with those little juicebox sized Rubbermaid cups with a straw (in the plastic-ware section at the grocery store). They're not spillproof, but they have the advantage of not causing some of the speech-impediment problems that the Playtex valve ones are reputed to cause and they teach a more useful method of straw-drinking than a regular sippy cup with a valve which prolongs the sucking a bottle action. Leigh in raLeigh |
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Advice needed pls. 1yr old still chokes using sippy cups
Idas wrote:
Hello, I have been giving my 1 year old a sippy cup since she was 6 months old. She doesn't mind it but after a few sips, she still chokes and coughs. It doesn't discourage her but sure makes it impossible to wean her off her milk bottles. I want her to use cups exclusively but I can't risk it while she is not drinking well out of sippy cups for water and diluted juice. I have tried 3 kinds of sippy cups, even regular cups but she cannot get enough fluid this way. She has no problem drinking out of a bottle, she has such a powerful suck she is like a hoover, I have never seen any baby drain a bottle like she did when she was a small baby. I keep forgetting to ask her pediatrician about this problem. Is this a medical problem or do some children just take longer to get used to it? Have you tried teaching her to use a straw? |
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Advice needed pls. 1yr old still chokes using sippy cups
"Tracey" wrote in message om... Idas wrote: Hello, I have been giving my 1 year old a sippy cup since she was 6 months old. She doesn't mind it but after a few sips, she still chokes and coughs. It doesn't discourage her but sure makes it impossible to wean her off her milk bottles. I want her to use cups exclusively but I can't risk it while she is not drinking well out of sippy cups for water and diluted juice. I have tried 3 kinds of sippy cups, even regular cups but she cannot get enough fluid this way. She has no problem drinking out of a bottle, she has such a powerful suck she is like a hoover, I have never seen any baby drain a bottle like she did when she was a small baby. I keep forgetting to ask her pediatrician about this problem. Is this a medical problem or do some children just take longer to get used to it? Have you tried teaching her to use a straw? Ours never warmed to a sippy cup. We went straight for one with a straw and it has worked pretty well. P. Tierney |
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Advice needed pls. 1yr old still chokes using sippy cups
P. Tierney wrote:
Have you tried teaching her to use a straw? Ours never warmed to a sippy cup. We went straight for one with a straw and it has worked pretty well. Same here. I got some of the Playtex cups that have a straw and a lid that flips over it. I've now amassed a decent collection of small lidded plastic kiddie cups from restaurants as well, which have proven to be a good size for DS to hold. -- tristyn www.tristyn.net "i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. i do not think that they will sing to me." |
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Advice needed pls. 1yr old still chokes using sippy cups
Idas wrote: Hello, I have been giving my 1 year old a sippy cup since she was 6 months old. She doesn't mind it but after a few sips, she still chokes and coughs. It doesn't discourage her but sure makes it impossible to wean her off her milk bottles. I want her to use cups exclusively but I can't risk it while she is not drinking well out of sippy cups for water and diluted juice. I have tried 3 kinds of sippy cups, even regular cups but she cannot get enough fluid this way. She has no problem drinking out of a bottle, she has such a powerful suck she is like a hoover, I have never seen any baby drain a bottle like she did when she was a small baby. I keep forgetting to ask her pediatrician about this problem. Is this a medical problem or do some children just take longer to get used to it? thanks, Idas Sure - try a regular cup. My son could drink from a regular cup by the time he was 6 months old (we had to help him hold it, of course.) He didn't really learn to use a sippy cup until he was about 15 months old. (The only reason I wanted him to be able to use a sippy cup was for car trips, anyway - he's 22 months old now, and never uses one except for when we're traveling.) Clisby |
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Advice needed pls. 1yr old still chokes using sippy cups
Idas wrote:
I keep forgetting to ask her pediatrician about this problem. Is this a medical problem or do some children just take longer to get used to it? Don't know if this could be medical, but some kids do take longer to learn how to drink from sippy cups. The step from the small amount that they get from a bottle to the large amount that comes out of a sippy cup is pretty big. Perhaps if you closed all but one of the holes in the cup the flow might be smaller and better to handle for her. Or it might be an idea to start teaching her to drink from a regular hard-plastic cup. It depends a bit on how far she is with her motor skills, but once she realizes she can regulate the flow herself, it could get much better. -- -- I mommy to DS (16m) guardian of DH (32) TTC #2 War doesn't decide who's right, only who's left |
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Advice needed pls. 1yr old still chokes using sippy cups
x-no-archive:yes Tracey wrote:
Idas wrote: Hello, I have been giving my 1 year old a sippy cup since she was 6 months old. She doesn't mind it but after a few sips, she still chokes and coughs. It doesn't discourage her but sure makes it impossible to wean her off her milk bottles. I want her to use cups exclusively but I can't risk it while she is not drinking well out of sippy cups for water and diluted juice. I have tried 3 kinds of sippy cups, even regular cups but she cannot get enough fluid this way. She has no problem drinking out of a bottle, she has such a powerful suck she is like a hoover, I have never seen any baby drain a bottle like she did when she was a small baby. I keep forgetting to ask her pediatrician about this problem. Is this a medical problem or do some children just take longer to get used to it? We didn't have sippy cups when I was doing it. They were weaned straight to a regular cup. So my advice would be to forget the sippy cups (it may be a bit messy at first, but let her have a regular cup with just a small amount of fluid in it) and go directly to a regular cup or glass (a small unbreakable one with no handles so she has to hold it with two hands). And give her the milk in the cup, and not just juice. grandma Rosalie |
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