Hey all, Im having really bad problems getting ym 9 months old to drink from a juice cup. I have had every cup on the market and he just point blank refuses them. I have tried to persevere with them but im getting knowhere. He will srink it fine from a bottle (i give him a different bottle to the ones used for milk) but i have heard that if he drinks from a bottle for too long then the roof of his mouth will form wrong. Im really worried and totaly out of ideas of what to do. Please any suggestions will be amazing.

Thanks in advance :)

I had the same problem with my little man until i found this cup http://www.nukbabyshop.co.uk/products.aspx?pid=3
now he drinks from anything!!! the spout is made from latex but shaped like a feeder cup, which tricked my son into thinking it was a bottle teat. Now he will drink from any feeder cup and only as a bottle for bed

I think it was recommended to me that bottles should be gone by about 1 yr old (no later), so why not leave it a few weeks and try again. Some of my friends kids have bypassed the juice cup stage, and gone straight on to sipping from normal lidless cups. Yup, messy I know but they just preferred it. My kids both went on to the "sports bottle" type cups at about a year - the ones that have quite an easy flow. Neither of mine could get anything out of the spillproof type.

Anyhoo, hope you find something that works X

My mum had to get the Easter Bunny to take away my bottle when I was 5 and about to start school.

I didn't use if for every drink, and could use a cup, but Bill the Spill (named because I'd leave him on the sofa, then some poor adult would come along and sit in the wet patch he left) was constantly by my side.

Does that make it any easier? :D

I tried everything for my middle son. He just wasn't having it. I finally got him onto a cup when he was 2, the none spill variety. I don't think there is a hard and fast rule. I think it can cause stress for both parent and child if you set deadlines. I've never heard of a grown up still sucking a bottle so by all means try a number of different options but I would wait till 12 months old anyway.

Just don't give him/her a drink in the morning, but put a cup with his/her favourite juice on a table, highchair or wherever he/she is. Most kids *can* drink from a cup by around 9 months, but plenty choose not to if they can get liquid another way. You don't have to withhold fluid long enough to do any harm, just long enough for natural thirst to make it worth the effort to drink from a cup.

hey hun,
try the avent magic up, they have a flexible teet like a bottle so may get him to try it, also it has handles the you can remove and it looks like a tomy tippee bottle shape, its worth a try xx