Nuby 3 Piece Girl No-Spill Cup with Flex Straw, 10 Ounce

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There are many different types of straw sippy cups on the market, including stainless steel, plastic, and glass. Some sippy cups are available with handles, giving babies an easier and more secure hold. Some parents and caregivers prefer buying a variety of straw sippy cups to see which type their little one will handle best. Sippy cups are perfect for easing this transition, and most toddlers will start using them between 12-18 months of age. The best sippy cups will provide appropriate flow, positioning, and sensory input for toddlers learning how to drink on their own. Children can begin phasing out bottles between 12 months and 24 months old. However, a sippy cup is safe to use for babies before that big transition happens. Straw Sippy Cups. ASHA identifies straw-top sippy cups as an excellent alternative to spouted sippy cups in terms of speech and swallowing development. So, if babies are open to trying them as a first transition cup or if they have mastered the spout cup and are ready to graduate, straw sippies are a great option. These cups are widely portable and even mostly spill-proof. While tilting straw cup designs were some of our favorites for their agility and flip-top lids, wider straws like the Nuby Flex Straw are more rugged and significantly easier to clean. Testing Notes:"The weighted straw in these sippy cups is what makes them so genius. Transitioning our son from his bottle to the sippy cup was difficult, but the fact that he could hold this sippy cup at any angle and successfully drink helped tremendously. Cleaning this cup can be a bit of a chore, but the included straw cleaning brush makes the process a bit easier."

Easy to use and affordable, this sippy cup boasts a weighted straw, which can help your kiddo drink from any angle, including tilted up like the bottles they may be used to. The weight keeps the straw pointing down into the liquid. The sippy cup is usually the go-to choice when you make that first big move from a bottle to a cup. This is because of how easy they are for young children to learn to use, no matter if they’ve been breastfed or bottle-fed. Actually does not leak! Usually these are filled with water so there's no issue with that. Only if there is something cold sitting out and warming to room temp does the pressure change and push the liquid to the straw's surface. Sippy cups typically have a soft, silicone spout that makes it gentle on gums and emerging teeth. Some cups will have two easy-to-grip handles or be ergonomically designed to be easy to hold with little hands. Our training sippy cups, suitable for 3+ months, also have an interchangeable nipple and spout option to help ease your child into drinking from a cup for the first time.

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They’re also known for being leak-proof, easy to clean and travel with and often feature a weighted base to keep them upright, reducing spills…a parent’s dream! Easy to (dis)assemble: just be sure to line up the top rubber lid with the plastic notches on the lid ring. But inside straw, rubber top (with attached external straw), and ring come apart easily.

Kids love straw cups. And so do parents, too. If your child is ready to move away from their beloved sippy cup but isn't quite ready for an open cup, then straw cups are the next stepping stone. Children can usually start learning how to use a straw between 6 and 12 months when they've been introduced to solid foods. But, of course, every baby develops differently, so some may be ready earlier or later.Another alternative to plastic is glass. These cups, like stainless steel, are reusable, but they’re not as durable when dropped. If a protective cover is not on a glass sippy cup, it poses a risk of injury to your baby, as the glass could break. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends parents begin phasing out baby bottles and sippy cups when babies are between 12 and 24 months of age. Bottle use long after the first year of life can negatively impact swallowing and speech development. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) observes, “A bottle nipple rests over the front third of the tongue, preventing that essential elevation so necessary for being an effective and efficient eater. When toddlers continue to use the infant swallow pattern, chewing and swallowing new foods can be challenging or messy at best.” This tongue-forward positioning can also negatively impact the development of jaw muscles and other physical complications, making it even more important that parents begin the weaning process from the bottle and toward regular drinking cups. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends phasing out the baby bottle and transitioning to an open-mouth cup before your child is 2 years old. Okay, hands down, this is the best cup we've found to date and we have gone through A LOT of cups. Here's why this is our go to for our 2 year old daughter: The Philips Avent My Bendy Straw Cup seemed simple enough, but when you open the cover milk squirts out, and it leaks like crazy even when sitting on a flat surface!

Full disclosure: Some of these sippy cups, including the AVENT and Munchkin models, were sent to us as free test samples by the manufacturer. Here are the Best Sippy Cups of 2023! 1. Munchkin LATCH Transition Cup. A sippy cup with handles will allow your little one to easily carry their favorite cup as they begin to explore their surroundings. And because our cups have Touch-Flo valves, the possibility of leaks is significantly reduced. With a choice of baby cups from the 360 range, your toddler is also able to drink from any area of the rim. We then pulled together the most popular and best-rated sippy cups, including trainers, straws, spouted, and rimless cups. We filled them up, toted them around, tipped them over, shook them upside down, and ran them through the dishwasher. We offered them to five different babies and toddlers and took notes on ease-of-use for each one.Just like adult cups, straw sippy cups are available in different capacities, from as little as 4 ounces to as much as 12 ounces. How big your child’s sippy cup needs to be can depend on many factors, like your family’s daily activities.

A flip-top lid makes it easy to take this option on the go, and the handles are good for small hands learning to grasp their cup. While young kids will likely have no problems with the cup, some adults find the weighted straw hard to clean.

The 360 Wonder Cup is a revolutionary drinking cup that’s perfect for the transition between bottle and open cup. With a leak-resistant design, this cup encourages natural drinking development with a soft silicone rim insert that can be sipped from all sides. Straw sippy cups can help to improve the muscles in your child's mouth and tongue and protect their teeth alignment. They can also help with speech development and swallowing skills, which are very important for eating and drinking later on and will allow for an easier transition to water bottles. There are three main sippy cup tops, and our test babies were immensely helpful in demonstrating the advantages and disadvantages of each. Most of the sippy cups we tested are pictured below, and you will notice there are several different styles. These are categorized as follows. Cups are for when your child is ready to move from the bottle to an open cup. Usually, this can happen from around 12 months onwards. But don’t worry if they’re still using a sippy cup or a straw cup at this age, as every child develops at their own pace. Modern parents have enough on their plates without needing to wash every sippy cup by hand, which is why our test parents agreed that dishwasher-friendly cups were preferred. Additionally, safety considerations for materials were at the top of our lists. Most sippy cups on the current market are plastic, and even though the US Food and Drug Administration banned bisphenol A (BPA) from baby bottles and sippy cups in 2012, it was still important that we noted this certification on each sippy cup. There are still ongoing studies regarding the leeching of estrogenic and other potentially harmful compounds, even from BPA-free cups, “Sometimes the BPA-free products had even more activity than products known to contain BPA.” So, when we were able to find stainless steel options compatible with sippy cups such as the Munchkin Miracle, we were further encouraged to support our test babies in learning these cups.