drinking from a cup

[jenstar]

My wee boy is not at all taken with his cup of water!

He is almost 6 months and going well with weaning so far (less than 3 wks in.) He breastfeeds and also drinks well from a bottle having had a bottle every day since he was a month old.

My question is: do I need to push the cup at this stage? Or just keep trying and eventually he will come round to it? He has a tommee tippee cup (cheapie one with the free flow flip up spout) would it be worth my while changing it? Or getting a bottle with handles/ spout?

 

[1st_baby]

Give him time , he will learn I just fill it and leave it on the tray on his high chair ..he plays with it and explores it

 

[isil]

we've had problems with this with Ally. He just wouldn't drink out of a sippy cup. I left him to play with it and everything but he wouldn't take anything (I think at one point I seriously thought he was though!)

He now has a beaker from superdrug. It's got handles and a big white soft spout. He doesn't do well with a valve but I read that they're meant to be worse for tooth decay and stuff anyway. So ours is valveless. He drinks 4-5oz after each meal from it. He was really constipated too but now he's fine.

I think unless he's taking nothing after 6 months from it, or becoming constipated or something you shouldn't worry too much