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I know that there are a couple of very long threads on safe sippy cups - I just wanted to start afresh 
I am still not happy with the whole sippy cup situation. For a baby under a year old I am not happy with either Klean Canteen or Foogo - to heavy plus both of these do better with just water and not diluted juice or milk.
Choices as I see it
Safe Sippy (I hear it leaks)
Born Free training cup - again I hear it leaks
Thinkbaby training cup - this is the one I am leaning to for Anna
For Mike I have always used the Playtex Insulator straw cup (no idea if it is BPA and Pthlate free) and the Kleen Canteen for water.
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I have Aveda cups, they leak. I have the stainless Thermos sippy cup, it leaks too. The rubber insert to stop leaks fell out and won't stay in. The only non-leaking sippy cups I have ever used are Gerber and Playtex. I try not to buy Chinese or plastic, but I don't know what else to do.
I have a Kleen Kanteen sippy cup. It works great, but is too heavy for a real little one and is quite dangerous in the hands of toddler boy.
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I am at a loss too. I thought this was/is a hopeless situation. I'm hoping someone will have a good answer.
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I have no sippys in the house right now. Mark is using a regular cup very well and I'm just not sure what to do with Greta. She sips out of my cup, and that seems to be working fine. I just don't think I want to do the whole 'fill and take a sippy everywhere' routine again.
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I had given up Kacky. But my 3 older kids read some article in National Geographic about the dangers of baby cups and they are all on my case 
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MarilynW wrote:
I had given up Kacky. But my 3 older kids read some article in National Geographic about the dangers of baby cups and they are all on my case |
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LOL! I love your kids! That is so funny.
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| I have no sippys in the house right now. Mark is using a regular cup very well and I'm just not sure what to do with Greta. She sips out of my cup, and that seems to be working fine. I just don't think I want to do the whole 'fill and take a sippy everywhere' routine again. |
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We also don't use sippy cups with my youngest. She drinks quite well out of a very small glass or mug. We had Avent sippy cups for my son, but he would walk around with them all the time. I didn't like his walking around with a cup -- I think a child should sit down at the table and drink. So we decided to not use the sippy cups. When we travel we use glass bottles from Germany that come with a styrofoam cover: Emil bottles. I've had some of them for twenty years and they are terrific (for babies through adults). An alternative to the German ones are the Swiss Sigg bottles.
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This thread raises a new idea for me- no sippy cups. I have always just seen it as the way it is supposed to be, the toddler with a cup of juice in his hand. Hmmm....
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Molly, it's been something I've been thinking about with my last few babies. I used to see it much like you, and that is how we did it. Now, when Mark (2) asks for a drink, I give him a small amount of water in a cup and he drinks it right there in the kitchen and hands it right back to me. At meals, he gets milk or sometimes juice. When we are out and he must have a drink, he gets a sip from the big water bottle I keep with me.
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When my kids are little, we use a glass double shot, shot glasses. They are the perfect size for little hands.
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Okay, but at dinner, even my 4 and 5 year olds can barely make it through without knocking over a cup! Do you not give them a drink at dinner, or do you just give them an ounce at a time and keep refilling? I certainly see the value in making drinking just for the table or kitchen and giving them only as much as they need at that moment. I can't begin to count the hours of my life lost to searching for the sippy cups!
Are we hijacking, Marilyn? 
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I like the Tupperware cups with lids that have a straw hole for meals with 2-5 year olds milk or juice. We also use espresso cups at meals since they are small and not tippy, but if spilled, they don't hold so much.
We use Siggs for water and haven't found an ideal option for the one year old's milk or juice.
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We use Rubbermaid Litterless Juice Boxes. We've used them for a couple years now, and I really like them. We only do drinks at the table, and if my toddlers want something in between meals/snacks, I have them sit down, drink as much as they want from their straw cup, and then leave it on the table before they go back to play.
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We taught our boys to drink out of glasses. You need a short fat glass that they have to use TWO hands to pick up and drink out of. The bottom can not be skinnier than the top (i.e. it needs straight sides). Also, glasses like these that are heavier at the bottom helps prevent them from being tipped over easily on the table (but I think it's more important to have straight sides - those top-heavy glasses are spills waiting to happen! Also, it's better if they don't have smooth sides. We fill them halfway for the youngest (and refill) but older kids get full cups.
When we go out I don't like bringing individual drinks because then we have to find bathrooms all the time, but I carry a 32 oz Nalgene BPA-free water bottle in my bag (like Lisa). At home, we keep drinks (and food) in the kitchen. I was never happy with the girls carrying around bottles, sippy cups, etc that I would invariably find with spoilt milk or fermented juice under the couch - or worse, if they would find it and take a drink before I could grab it! 
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I'm trying to ditch the plastic here, too. I've bought some stainless steel beakers from ebay and they seem to be working well. My youngest is fine with an open cup, but the cheap glass ones we had from Ikea all got smashed... so it's stainless steel for us.
Btw I read somewhere that the older Sigg bottles were also lined with plastic -- so you have to be careful even with apparently metal bottles
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doris wrote:
I'm trying to ditch the plastic here, too. I've bought some stainless steel beakers from ebay and they seem to be working well. My youngest is fine with an open cup, but the cheap glass ones we had from Ikea all got smashed... so it's stainless steel for us.
Btw I read somewhere that the older Sigg bottles were also lined with plastic -- so you have to be careful even with apparently metal bottles |
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Sigg has always had a liner which is why it is popular for not leaving a taste, but it recently came out that the liners contain BPA. However, under testing, they do not actually LEACH BPA, but SIgg will replace your old bottle if you like.
The new liners for Sigg do not contain BPA, but I heard that they were prone to peeling. So, idk, we just decided to keep our old ones that don't peel and don't seem to leach BPA. At least the water doesn't taste like plastic which it always did to me in a regular plastic sippy cup.
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