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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Perfect Apr 05, 2009
By Esther
I purchased 2 of these sippy cups when my son was 7 months old to get him started on transitioning from nursing to eventually using a sippy cup. We skipped the bottle all together. He caught on very well to this cup and we haven't turned back since! He likes a few other of the Nuby cups (sports sippy cup) but this one seems to be his favorite.
Besides the soft spout, I also like that this cup comes with a top, since we have dogs, I don't have to worry about my small dog getting to my baby's sippy cup. It's also great when we go out, I can put the top on and know if it falls on the floor (or gets thrown) that it won't get as dirty.
As far as the wear and tear, I have never had to replace the spouts, and my son has been using them for a little over four months. I take good care of the cups, using the tops, and cleaning according to the instructions (dish washer). I don't let my son use the cup as a chew toy, just for drinking and they still look brand new. If they do get worn, the replacements are very inexpensive so I'm not worried about that.
I have never had these leak, except when my son pinches the spout with his fingers, which he doesn't do very often. It truly doesn't leak at all, unless it is defective.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Good for baby, not for me! Jun 20, 2009
By Kay
After many false starts and difficulties with transitioning my daughter off the bottle - at 18 months she still wasn't catching on - I tried this one, since it seemed to be similar to what she already had (a drop-in type bottle with the hole in the top cut WAY big!), and it turned out to be a big success. She took to it well and we were able to leave the bottles behind within a couple of weeks. I also liked the idea of not having to take several miniscule pieces apart to clean it, since it doesn't have a valve. So that's the good points.
The bad points are first of all it leaks dreadfully. The spout just contains a couple of little flappy bits of plastic which are supposed to stop it spilling, but it doesn't work since the weight of the fluid in an upturned cup is way more than these tiny, fragile flaps can contain. Also, those tiny, fragile flaps break off after a few uses, making it even more leaky. My daughter didn't seem bothered by the increased flow this causes but it does mean that any time the cup spends on its side or upside down (which as you all know who have been there is about 85% of the time), it's hemorrhaging fluid. A waste of juice and a lot of clean up. It also leaks around the top where it screws on, it's not a watertight seal, and that led to a lot of stained clothes before I caught on and only gave her clear fluids like water and apple juice.
Fortunately having worked with this for a few weeks, my daughter had grasped the theory of a sippy cup so we went and bought a couple of Avent ones with no return valves, more work to wash them but at least my couch and carpet are dry most of the time now.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Best Starter Cup!!! Aug 15, 2008
By Jennifer
I absolutely LOVE these cups. When we started my daughter on sippy cups we tried every cup we could find and she refused to drink from all of them. We finally found this cup and she would actually use it!!! We found that we preferred this 10oz, 2 handle model opposed to the 7oz one with the handles on the cup part (thse are on the lid). We had issues with the other type tring to get the lid on so that the spout wasn't over the handle - if you under tighten or over tighten it will leak. These ones with the handles on the the spout piece were great.
We didn't have any issues with her using them while she was teething. After a 6-9 months of normal use the middle piece of the spout did tear and we had to replace them. Mainly it ripped when it did because she started sticking her tongue in the spout- in the slits. It was at this time that we decided if she could do that then it was time to switch cups and by then she would/could drink out of a 'normal' sippy cup.
We just started our son with them and at 8 months, this is now all he uses. He had absolutely no problems transitioning from the bottle to the cup. (Which is really great for us since our Ped. likes to see them off of the bottle by the time they are a year.)
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Helped us move off the bottle Aug 13, 2011
By S. Cheng
"avid everything-er"
I actually borrowed a couple of these from a friend. My son, at 15 months, would drink water or juice out of the hard spout sippy cups but would not drink milk from them. Within a week of him watching me pour milk from the bottle into this cup, and then having him drink from it, he was completely off the bottle. I was happy not to have to wash all the pieces of the Dr. Brown bottles again! He's now 18 months and he still takes his morning milk from this one, and regular harder spout sippys the rest of the day. This bottle is also easy to clean, but as a previous reviewer mentioned, there are some tiny slots in the spout area that is hard to clean...I some times carefully use a toothpick to get water in there to clean it.
The down side is that it DOES leak a bit. I find most of the leakage comes when the bottle is dropped and the rubber spout makes contact with a hard surface. Since there's no valve, it can drip out. And when your kid figures out that he can bend it with his fingers, get ready to have milk flying at you.
Regardless, I found I really liked this sippy. I'm going to purchase one for our personal stash.
Very Nice 1st cup May 20, 2012
By Book and Cat Lover
I bought this cup at a local Meijer store after the pediatrician suggested that we give our daughter water after her meal. She was six months at the time. I chose this cup because she already had two teeth and with a hard spout cup she would just bite on the spout. I felt with this cup it might encourage her to suck since it was similar to a bottle nipple. She was able to hold onto the cup with relative ease. We have been giving her water in it for quite sometime and she definitely was drinking it but I never knew how much. She is now 10 months. Today I wanted to see how well she was doing, so I put some of her morning bottle into this cup and she drank it like a pro. I believe that she will be easily off the bottle by 1 year and I do believe part of that is because this cup is an easy transition.
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