It's frustrating trying out different cups - we've got several 'rejects' sitting in our cupboard that were used momentarily
At one stage when Sophie was little I had about a dozen
In the end it wasn't the particular cup that was the problem, it was just the change from a bottle, kwim? I tried Tracy's cheaty method of poking extra holes in the teat until one morning it split, and I said "oh dear it's broken, shall I put the milk in your pink cup?" She replied "yes" and we never looked back.
I have a lot of baby to toddler issues that are outstanding as I haven't tackled them properly.
Definitely this is an issue with me as well- particularly as Alex is definitely my last babby. And not just with milk, I still have NW issues going on
Liz, have just read through your posts and seen J likes a hard spout. Have you tried the Avent magic cup? They do one with a soft spout and one with a hard spout. Alex likes the hard spout one for his water. It's not too hard to drink from and is still non spill. If he won't hold his bottle, he might be better with something with handles, Alex definitely is, he wouldn't hold a bottle either, the Avent one has handles you can take off if you want.
I cannot get him to sit still and have milk any more, so my tactic is to give him his milk in his sippy at about 6pm, he drinks half then wanders around with it for a while, then has the rest while I am getting him ready for bed so by 6.45 either it's all gone or I take the leftovers away.
The other thing that's worked for us is to relocate all the kids' plastic bowls, plates, sippys etc. They were clogging up the cupboards so I bought a big plastic box and chucked everything in there and keep it on a low shelf at Alex-height. He loves to rummage and it's his current favourite toy box (Santa needn't have bothered
) Anyway, my point is, he has taught us to understand his needs just in the last week; he has started grabbing his bib and bringing it to us then taking it to his highchair to tell us he is hungry, and around 5.45 every afternoon now he grabs his milk sippy and waves it at me whilst standing by the fridge shouting until I put milk in it. I hid the bottles last week so all he sees is the sippys so he has quickly associated them with milk. Does any of that make sense? It's like he has more control over when he drinks it so is drinking it well, kwim?
He only has about 3oz in the morning but tbh I don't worry about that as he has a good breakfast with milk on his cereal.
hth x