April 21, 2009
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Stop The Sippy?
After a couple of weeks of trying the sippy cup, BB isn’t really getting it. Well, he gets it, but not the right way. The nuby sippy cup has a soft spout and you’re supposed to get the liquid out by sucking on it through it’s unique valve system (duh). The only thing is that if you squeeze the valve, liquid comes out as well. And since BB is all into chewing, the first thing he did was bite the valve….and liquid came out. Now he thinks to get the liquid, you have to chew on the spout….so that’s what he does…chew chew chew chew swallow and repeat.
I read that you should also try a regular cup at the same time. And surprisingly, he’s much better at a regular cup. I used a really wide brimmed coffee mug so that I could see how fast the liquid was going into his mouth. But he was all into grabbing the cup and bringing it to his mouth. Before the liquid hits his mouth, he laps at it like a dog…but then once it’s in his mouth, he drinks it like a regular person. Do I need to continue trying the sippy cup or should I just let him do the regular cup? I’m sure it’ll be really messy later on when he tries to do the regular cup himself. Is there a kid friendly version of a regular cup?
We decided to start sleep training. Sigh. We thought we dodged that bullet. I ordered the sleep book by Jodi Mindell. She advocates CIO, but is a little bit more lenient with it than Ferber and gives suggestions as to how to adapt her technique so that it better suits your baby (or so I read in the summary). We’ll start as soon as I get the book in the mail and read it. Until then, I’m savoring every last night of BB snuggling in bed with us! He actually has been doing a little better these past few days…but who knows. I moved his bedtime up by 20 minutes tonight since I think he’s kind of overtired by the time I normally put him to bed.
I feel like he’s reached a new cognitive level. He’s so much more aware of things now. He knows who I am and has actively reached out for me when strangers (aka the IL’s) try to hold him. And he definitely is developing that manipulative do-what-I-want-or-I’ll-cry thing. I’m not sure how to deal with that. You can’t really discipline him….I usually try the redirct strategy. And he outsmarted that star stacking toy thing this week. He finally got the hang of getting the rings off by himself the correct way (both hands, sliding the rings up over the center post….before he would just bat at it and knock the thing over). He did that for half a day before he learned that if he pulled up at the bottom most one, they all come off at once. So that’s what he does every time now.
I haven’t really taken any pictures since we moved
We spent all our time unpacking and adapting to our new place. I should start doing that again…I missed a lot of his 5th month.
Comments (4)
M didn’t take to the sippy cup either…but eventually she used it. She just liked the take n toss ones. Sometimes it takes too much sucking power for some of the cups I’ve seen…yes, I’ve tested them.
we tried a bunch of sippy cups and the take and toss ones worked the best for him. like mamajoyjoy said, it flows more easily and it was very light. some kids just don’t like the sippy cup so if BB likes the regular cup more, then maybe u can just skip the sippy cup stage completely.
he sounds like smartypants.
let me know how sleep training goes. are you training because he won’t sleep in his crib?
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He will…like he takes his naps there. But at night, he wakes up and won’t go back to sleep unless someone pats him or uses the paci…or if we wait to long, we have to pick him up and walk around. Plus, with his separation anxiety, once he’s up and we put him down and he sees us walk away, he goes beserk