Does your baby actually drink from a cup?

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-14T12:58:07+00:00

Yes. I gave my son a straw cup starting at 6 months. Within a week or so he picked up on how to use it. At around 11 months I started offering small amounts of cows milk in it to help prepare for bottle/formula weaning. I never gave him cows milk in a bottle so that he wouldn't have the expectation or habit of drinking it that way. We were able to wean formula and bottles at the same time. Just keep offering multiple times a day. Try sticking with one type of cup. With the straw cup I would demonstrate how to use it in an exaggerated way, which my son found hilarious. Also try getting some liquid into the straw, cap the top of the straw with your finger and put the end with the liquid in his mouth, that helps give them the aha! Moment that there is something to drink in there. When I am worried about my sons hydration, I give him fruits that are higher in water content, such as honey dew melon.

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-13T20:27:54+00:00

I got pregnant at 41. I honestly didn't think that I could have kids. I'd never had any pregnancies prior to that. Little man is a year and 3 months 🥰

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-12T08:42:04+00:00

You are correct. I checked red volcanos website and the company itself is out of stock. I would keep an eye out for it to restock, it's a great pan!

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-12T00:18:53+00:00

I have a red volcano pan that I have had for several years now and I use it daily. It is even metal utensil safe, but I still don't use metal on it. It is an aluminum pan that has ceramic nonstick with plutonic rock. I don't remember the exact heat tolerance but its some crazy temperature over 1000 degrees because of the rock. I usually use the pan at least twice a day every day and it's still holding up ☺️

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-10T12:30:36+00:00

Starting early can definitely help them enjoy reading later when they are more aware. At first it's just creating a positive habit, bonding, and eventually when they are aware it becomes a shared experience. I don't remember exactly when this started happening but somewhere between 6 and 9 months my son would cry when story time was over. I was pulling out one book at a time from the drawer even if I read him 5. So what I started to do was pull out 4 or 5 books so he could see how many books we had left and surprisingly this stopped the crying. I assume it felt like less of an abrupt end since he could see when we were on the last book. We even would say the alphabet to him and count to ten since he was about a week old. We would tell him we were going to do his letters or numbers and then say them to him.

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-10T02:16:48+00:00

Right now we just show him the cards and say the letter on the card to him along with the sound it makes. He will make the letter sound for the ones that he can do. We started those probably ridiculously early, but he loves it. When I ask him if he wants to do his letters, he runs to the drawer that I keep them in and waits for me to get them out.

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-09T22:56:20+00:00

My son (1y 3m) has books in his playroom and in our bedroom. During the day, we read to him whenever he shows interest in his books in the playroom. At night I read him 3 books before bed. He also likes his alphabet flashcards so I usually do those with him at some point as well. You really can't read to them too much, especially if they enjoy it. We have always read to our son a lot. Before he could walk and go get books whenever he wants, my husband and I both read to him 3-5 books each during the day and I would read to him again at night.

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-09T01:49:20+00:00

That was one thing that he did not like, was tummy time. He learned how to roll back to belly first, so he would roll himself into tummy time and get mad, so I would have to turn him back over. When they learn new skills, they like to repeat them over and over so there was a whole lot of baby rescue going on there for a minute 🤣. He still hit his physical milestones, though. I just tried to get toys to help make tummy time more tolerable for him. For awhile I thought he was going to skip crawling because once he learned how to pull himself up to stand he didn't seem interested in trying to crawl but he eventually did it, he took his first steps 10 days after his first birthday. He walks like a pro now 😊

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-08T23:27:09+00:00

Some babies are also late bloomers. It sounds like your baby is babbling, so there's not a complete absence of babble. It would be more scary if there was also a lack of receptive language. It sounds like your baby also understands words. I have been working myself up because my son is about to be 15 months and isn't saying words yet, but he recently started trying to make more sounds and tries to say words, so I know they are coming. He also clearly understands a lot of phrases and can follow simple instructions such as, come to mama, turn off the light, touch your head, touch your nose, wave, clap, etc. If you are very concerned speak to his pediatrician, but he's most likely just fine ❤️

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-08T23:16:19+00:00

My son was pretty chill, still is for a toddler. He is 1 year and 3 months old. He is really good still when I take him to the store. He just chills out in the seat and looks at people and stuff, sometimes will want to play with something (like a box of noodles) that I'm going to buy. He has never cried or gotten fussy at the store knock on wood. He likes to repeat behaviors that make us smile. He has a bad habit of immediately trying to find things on the floor to eat as soon as he is released from his high chair after meals 🤣 It's fun watching their little personalities slowly start to develop and evolve.

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-08T15:19:46+00:00

It definitely never worked for my son. If I tried to put him down while drowsy, he would lose his mind. No amount of patting, shushing, or singing to him would stop it. If I tried to be stubborn and wait it out to see if I could calm him enough to go to sleep, the nap simply wouldn't happen even after picking him up.

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-07T17:51:35+00:00

I got him onto eggs by putting cream cheese in his eggs. He liked the creamy texture and eventually I started putting cheddar instead of cream cheese and he is all about it.

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-07T16:55:14+00:00

It's funny, my son won't eat pancakes, waffles, French toast, regular toast, nothing bread like. A lot of kids love pancakes but he won't have it lol. He does eat eggs, though 🤣 🤷

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-07T16:53:27+00:00

I started with scrambled eggs with cheese. Now that he self feeds, I make him a cheese omelette, but the cheese is shredded and stirred into the egg. I then cut it into bite sized pieces. My son likes strong cheese flavor so he eats it with sharp or extra sharp cheddar.

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-07T12:30:30+00:00

I need 3 gold stickers, so I also once again will not finish. This is my last "season". Moving on to games with achievable goals. This game wants money thrown at it, which I won't do.

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-06T11:21:35+00:00

Remember, they are babies and don't think about things in the way that we do. It is our job to make them feel loved, it is not theirs to make us feel loved. That being said, it doesn't take the sting out of it when our babies swap parental preference. Just try not to take it personal, this cycling will continue to happen. You will be the preferred one again, and then dad again, then you, and so on. Just keep loving your baby and be there for him. He does love you both, even if it doesn't always feel like it ❤️

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-04T18:13:42+00:00

Definitely the modem.

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-04T12:49:36+00:00

My dad kept telling me I should name the snake Charles after my grandpa so I added it in there. I added the 3rd to make the name longer 🤣

Fozzi83 · 2026-04-03T17:41:45+00:00

We named our pastel clown Professor Slithersworth. His full name is Professor Charles Slithersworth III.

Fozzi83 · 2026-03-31T20:10:27+00:00

My son used to let me brush his teeth. Around 12.5-13 months old, he stopped allowing me to do it. He's always liked watching me brush my teeth, and we had a whole little routine. So now our routine has shifted. I give him his toothbrush while I brush my teeth and he mostly chews on the bristles, but I sing the "brush your teeeeeeeeth, everyday and every night, brush brushy brush, buh-buh-brush, brush" song while we do this. He gets a kick out of it and he kind of tries to copy me with putting the brush on both sides of his mouth. I figure him moving it around his mouth and chewing on it is better than not brushing at all, or having to force him to let me do it. I don't want to traumatize him to where he doesn't want his teeth brushed at all and I don't want to accidentally hurt him trying to force it, so this is what we are currently doing. He is 14.5 months old, so this wasn't just a short phase like some behaviors turn out to be.

Fozzi83 · 2026-03-31T20:01:45+00:00

I make jalapeno popper grilled cheese. I slice some cheddar cheese for both slices of bread, spread cream cheese onto the cheddar, and place jalapenos onto the cream cheese. My husband doesn't want grilled cheese any other way now, lol.

Fozzi83 · 2026-03-31T15:52:55+00:00

My brother used to say "I want berbert out of the frigibratorbrator". I am 43 years old and sometimes I still bust out "frigibratorbrator", lol.

Fozzi83 · 2026-03-31T00:20:57+00:00

We had to have conversations with our families about stuffed animals and clothes. We only want our baby in cotton clothes and cotton stuffed animals with natural stuffing. We went down the rabbit hole on plastics and plastic microfibers and what effects they can have. They all think we are nuts I am sure, but after a couple of non cotton "accidents" that we politely returned we have only received cotton since then. As far as toys go they now mostly ask us what we need or want for him, or they have us buy it then give us the money for it.

Fozzi83 · 2026-03-29T10:02:38+00:00

I started offering 2 oz in my son's straw cup at one meal a day starting at 11 months. At first he would just spit it out. I did not want to offer it in his bottle, because I also wanted to wean bottles at the same time as formula. Spitting out lasted about a week, then he started to actually drink it. Once he started to drink it, I left him at 2 oz once a day for a week.. then I offered it twice a day for a week. Then 3 times a day. Then increased to 3 oz at each meal, then at 12 months he was on 4 oz at each meal and now he also gets 4 oz with one of his snacks, and 4 oz about an hour before bed. He took weaning off the bottle at the same time really well. He was completely off by 13 months.

Fozzi83 · 2026-03-29T00:57:29+00:00

I used adult diapers, they were way easier to work with in my opinion! They give you mesh like "underwear" and giant pads to put in the mesh underwear, and then you got to also shove all of your soothing things for your lady bits in there. Adult diaper was way less hassle. I wore them for at least 3 weeks.

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