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Drinking from a cup and when to give normal water

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Tillysmummy · 22/03/2002 15:12

Two questions ladies, first is when should I start training my dd to drink from a cup. She is 6.5 months and can hold it fine and put it in her mouth but gets confused with the sucking / tipping thing ! Also when can I stop giving her cool boiled water and give her normal water ?

One more question. She is 28 weeks which is technically 7 months isn't it ? But as there are 52 weeks in a year and calendar months are often more than 4 weeks is 28 weeks 6.5 months ? Can someone help with this I am also trying to work it out ?

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undiscovered · 22/03/2002 15:57

Any-way-up cups are good to start with. Does it matter if she is 28 weeks or 7 months?

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Tillysmummy · 22/03/2002 16:00

Yes, because some books / things refer to months and I wanted to know so that I can workout when to do / give things to her. If she is 6 months she can't have certain foods she can have when she's 7 months, that's why I wanted to know

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Rozzy · 22/03/2002 16:03

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undiscovered · 22/03/2002 16:18

Play safe and be cautious. Would she still be classed as seven months old if she was a month premature?????
Don't get too rapped up in text books - trust you gut instinct girl!!!

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Tillysmummy · 22/03/2002 16:22

My gut instinct says give her the 7month stuff particularly as she started solids early - at 4 months..

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Alibubbles · 22/03/2002 16:35

The anyway cups are briliant but you need a suck like Dynarod! I read an article in the week that says get a cup that will flow, ie the heinz babysoft spout cups are brilliant. It makes it easier to transfer onto a beaker. (Mind you I'd use anyway for travelling)

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Art · 22/03/2002 18:11

Tillysmummy - Ive always counted from the date ds was born - 26th May, so 26th June he was 1 month, 26th July 2 months and so on. It seems easier than trying to keep track of the weeks.

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Art · 22/03/2002 18:14

just reread that message and it sounds a bit gobbldygook - hope you can follow what I meant. Now on 26th March he'll be 10 months.

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leese · 22/03/2002 19:11

Tillysmummy - go for it with the seven month stuff if you think she's ready - isn't going to do any harm. I fed my dd all the stuff for a 7 - 8 mth old at 6 mths because I read the wrong page in the baby food book!
She's been on a cup since four months (albeit haphazardly then!), and does well with the tommee tippee cup - enjoys chewing on the spout. I stopped boiling her water at six months old too.
Like Art, I don't count months in terms of weeks, just whole months ie 1st jan - 1st Feb.

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Marina · 22/03/2002 19:31

Tillysmummy, we're big fans of Any Way Up Cups in our house but as Alibubbles said, you need a mighty suck which your dd might not have yet. We started ds on the Heinz Flexisoft cups and moved to Any Way Ups once he had worked out the joy of waving/dropping his drinks!
We boiled until he was a year old but I think we were being overcautious...

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jodee · 22/03/2002 20:12

Hi Tillysmummy, I think I used boiled water until ds was one, and we used the Avent soft spout magic cups until his had too many teeth and bit straight through it!
This is probably useless info, but ds couldn't manage enough suction for the Anyway Up Cups, and we were given some beakers with a hard spout called Wizzer (I think), from a relative in Holland. They are brilliant - you don't need as much suction power as the AnywayUp Cup and they don't leak when thrown on the floor (ds never 'puts' down a cup, it is thrown!). I think they are widely available on the continent.

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MalmoMum · 22/03/2002 21:49

Tommy Tippee cups work well and you don't have a travel lid to loose. Ds got offered lots of water from whichever glass or plastic bottle I was drinking from (and is now quite deft and delicate with pint glasses. Just the thing to make one proud).

Tap water in the UK is purified and clean. By the time fingers are going from the floor etc into the mouth then she is being exposed to quite a lot more things than are found in fresh tap water.

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Queenie · 23/03/2002 14:00

I too stopped boiling water at 6 mths for dd and started giving it to her in the soft spout Avent cup - found it a bit leaky so at 12 mths gave her the Anyway up cup for 6 mth old and she still uses it now at 17 mths.

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bayleaf · 24/03/2002 12:18

I stopped giving boiled water at 6 months aftr I read from a reliable source that in the States they barely bother with the 'cooled boiled water' thing at all - and just wash bottles in dishwashers from day one....
dd doesn't seem to have suffered.
We have a range of avent magic cups/boots cup/heinz cups - they're all ok tho the avent magic cups are definitely better for when you offer a drink away fromm meal times as they won't spill like the others.

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soothepoo · 25/03/2002 11:05

I stopped boiling water when dd started drinking her bath water!

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Stompy · 25/03/2002 20:05

I would start giving your dd a cup now and see how she gets on with it. Don't be too disheartened if she won't drink from it straight away - it will come.
I started giving my dd a cup at six months but all she would do was play with it. She's only just started actually drinking from it. She's 11 months.

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Charisma · 26/03/2002 10:34

WARNING ON ANYWAY UP CUPS

A lady who runs a NCT Mother & Baby group in my area advised us the Anyway cups are being withdrawn. Apparently, all the constant suction is not good for the teeth/dental formulae and dentists have been lobbying for its withdrawal. I used it for my older boys (now 5 and 7) but will avoid doing so with my youngest (now 6.5 months). If anyone would like some more info on this let me know and I can ask the NCT lady for more info.

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Tetley · 26/03/2002 10:42

Charisma - I use an anywayup cup every day for my ds - but am very concerned about your message. Any further info would be greatly appreciated.

Can anyone recommend any other non-spill cups (ds has a habit of throwing his cup around the room, holding it upside down etc)

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Tetley · 26/03/2002 10:43

I also meant to put in my message that I only use it for water - never milk or anything else - does this make a difference?

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manna · 26/03/2002 13:14

Sort of the same thread - I think!
DS is 18 weeks now (4.5 months) we are doing the cllb, happily. However, I never got round to giving him a small drink of cooled bolied water, like I was supposed to at 4.30pm (whoops. So - he's been on solids for a couple of weeks now, ans is loving it. Still drinking 30 - 35oz formula most days. My question is - should I start giving him water / diluted apple / pear juice? how much and at what time of day so as not to spoil his next formula feed? I think he may need added liquid now that isn't formula, but am terrified of it making him full so he doesn't fancy all his milk, as he's never been a complete guzzler anyway.

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Tillysmummy · 26/03/2002 13:50

Hey all

Thx for the tips. Been off line for a few days coz not at work. Tilly is now drinking happily from her cup - since Saturday ! Have to say that half her clothes get soaked though !!!

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bayleaf · 27/03/2002 12:26

Tetley - Avent magic cups don't spill - and they don't require the mega suction that AWU cups need so I imagine they are ok.
HTH

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bundle · 27/03/2002 13:25

Tillysmummy, just a bit of an aside really - is Tilly your dd's name? or is it short for something? I love the name myself, but dh's not too sure, mainly because surname begins with T....

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Tillysmummy · 27/03/2002 13:29

Hi Bundle

Tilly is my daughter's name. We were toying with Matilda but preferred just Tilly so she is christened Tilly Alice. Are you expecting a baba or do you have one ?

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bundle · 27/03/2002 13:46

Tillysmummy, I have just one dd Mimi (Amelia Alice)who's 21 mths. But we argued over the name so much that I'm always on the lookout for another name just in case (would like another in the next yr or so)- but Tilly's probably a non-starter because of the surname business. I quite like Kitty too - Tilly, Kitty, Mimi - bit of a pattern there eh?

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