bottle to cup

A common approach is to begin open cup and straw practice around six months, well ahead of bottle weaning at twelve to eighteen months. The 2oz first cup keeps pours practice sized for a brand new sipper, the open training cup adds a weighted base that resists tipping, and the 5oz cup takes a snap on lid and a soft silicone straw for busier days.

An open cup teaches the drinking action, a straw teaches a different one, and neither has to come first. What matters more is that both are familiar before the bottle starts going away, so the cup is not a new object arriving at the same moment a comforting one leaves. Most families end up using both in different rooms.

The transitional sets keep the same squeezable bottle body and swap only the top, from a nipple to a spout or a straw lid. Changing one part at a time is the whole idea: the object in the hands stays the object it always was, and only the thing being drunk from changes.