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I agree that a bottle is not a necessary transitional
Dear Friends,
I agree that a bottle is not a necessary transitional item, but nor is a sippy cup. What we teach at our WIC office is to avoid sippy cups as well as bottles. They are essentially the same thing. I am referring to the sippee cup that has a valve to make it no spill. Babies as young as 5 to 6 months old or younger can learn to drink from a regular cup with assistance of course. An older baby or a toddler toting around a sippy cup is just as damaging as if it were a bottle.
Julie Gladney BS, IBCLC, LLLL
Athens, Ohio
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:57:44 -0700
From: Marie Farver <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: sippee cup question
Question for you:
For moms who are exclusively BF, not working outside the home, and just
wondering about the occasional night out: for infants who are say, 4 or 5
months old, why not skip the whole bottle scenario and just have them use a
sippee cup? A bottle is not a necessary transitional item, if you know what
I mean; they are going to grow into using a cup as part of maturation,
eventually, so why not just use a sippee cup than "the occasional bottle"?
Thanks for your input -
Marie
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