Water & Sipper Cup vs. Cup
At Jacob's 5 month visit to the clinic on Tuesday, I asked the CHN about giving Jacob a little bit of cooled boiled water. I've been doing this periodically to try to get him used to it, and I've been giving it to him in a bottle. He doesn't seem to like it all that much, but I'm wondering if it's more a bit of a shock as he's expecting formula to come out of his bottle but instead he gets water? LOL
Anyway, the CHN said to give it to him in a sipper cup, or just an open-ended cup. I've previously tried to give it to him with a sipper cup, but because the sipper part is hard, all he wants to do is chew on it - he hasn't worked out that he needs to suck on it. Any advice, or do I just perservere? I tried putting a little bit of formula in the sipper cup to start with, and dipped the sipper part in the formula so that he would get that taste and therefore suck like he would on the bottle, but it didn't seem to work (I thought this might have been easier rather than introducing water and a sippy cup all at once).
How have other people tackled this? Should I keep trying with the sipper cup or try with an open-ended cup? I just think that it would be more difficult to try and teach him with an open-ended cup at this stage and that it might be too much too soon???