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What should I know when introducing a sippy cup to my 5 month old?

4,201 views · Published 2 March 2013 · 1:27 · Indexed 24 October 2026

Channel: IntermountainParents · 2013 · Autos & Vehicles

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Most pediatricians will recommend that you get rid of the bottle by about a year of age and that your baby is drinking from a sippy cup at that point.  It makes it easier if you start younger and just start slowly introducing it to them.  It's usually harder to eliminate the bottle around nap time and bedtime so that's usually the last time to go but start with mealtimes.  After your baby is eating solid foods, they're eating them well at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, follow up their solid food meal with a sippy cup.  It's okay to give them a little bit of juice but if they're drinking a lot of fluid at that point and they're getting good at drinking out of the sippy cup, it would probably be best at the young age of five and a half months to give them formula or breast milk, whatever they're used to.  Just give it to your baby, see how they react to it.  But at this young age your baby will probably still lack the dexterity to hold the cup and bring it to their mouth but as your baby gets a little bit older this will happen especially if you've been introducing it.  And demonstrate, babies like to do what we do so show your baby how to do it and then hand them their own sippy cup and have them do it.  You'll probably find more success around eight, nine, ten, eleven months of age but it doesn't hurt to start introducing it now.  If you have any other questions for me feel free to ask them on our Facebook page and recommend us to your friends and family too.

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