Supply vs Straw cup: which one?

[Jalapeñomel]

I have seen lots of posts about both, and I am not sure the advantage to having one or the other. Is there a particular brand or kind you recommend?

Did you start with BM/formula or did you do juice/water?

[soozy87]

We have only done sippy cups. No specific brand, I think the ones he uses are Nuk, but we have several different brands we haven't gotten out yet.

We only do water in sippy cups.

[matildasun]

We did water in straw cups and milk in sippy cups, because neither one of us liked having to clean milk out of straws.

[babyrn]

DD never got the hang of sippies so we went straight to straw cups. We love the Avent straw cups and the Zoli Bot straw cups. We did BM/formula/WCM in them.

[Jalapeñomel]

What age did you start? What age did your baby start getting the hang of it?

[KKD]

We have always used Nuby straw cups.

Starting with these for practice with water around 6+ months:

nuby.com/en/nuby/cups-spouts/9845/

Then these:

nuby.com/en/nuby/cups-spouts/9812/

And these for milk after 12 months:

nuby.com/en/nuby/cups-spouts/9609/

[cayl]

We've only used straw cups, we love the Zoli ones. My sister uses a spout cup for my nephew and he has some speech issues and she's been told by numerous people to switch to straw cups because they help the tongue muscles develop better or something. I'm sure it's not a concern for the vast majority of kids but after hearing that I'm glad we only did straws because it can be a pain to switch them to something new once they're used to something.

[magpie]

We are doing both. With water. I have munchkin cups, which work okay, but I haven't tried any others.

[thebreakfastclub]

I use the cheap take n toss, which DC also uses. I only put formula in bottles and use the cups for the rest.

[mcfelix]

Jun 27, 2014 21:59:55 GMT -5 cayl said:

We've only used straw cups, we love the Zoli ones. My sister uses a spout cup for my nephew and he has some speech issues and she's been told by numerous people to switch to straw cups because they help the tongue muscles develop better or something. I'm sure it's not a concern for the vast majority of kids but after hearing that I'm glad we only did straws because it can be a pain to switch them to something new once they're used to something.

I've also heard the same thing about straw cups being better for speech development or something like that. We have the Zoli cup and started using that with water around 6 or 7 months. He still doesn't totally get the hang out of (currently 11 months). We also give him water with an open cup, but we have to hold it for him. Daycare doesn't allow sippy or straw cups - they transition from bottles to open cups. I guess we should probably start having him try milk in a straw cup but I am not excited about washing straws. 

[DarcyLongfellow]

My best friend is a speech therapist, and she told me to only use straw sippies, so that's what I've started both girls on.

I like the Playtex insulated ones best.