cups,cups, cups and more cups

There are so many cups on the market its often difficult to know where to start when weaning your baby of a bottle. Indeed most of the parents I see in the shop are steadily working their way through virtually every bottle on the market. I suppose the main shoices to make are whther you want to go straight for a open cup or transition through a beaker.

If you go for the former option then the two most popular cups are the doidy cup and the steady cup. The doidy cup looks like a cup drawn by salvidor dali - its all on a slant. The theory behind it being that the slant means that your baby only has to tip the cups slightly in order to drink from it and the larger surface area means that they can see the surface of the water more easily. Many health visitors are recommending doidy cups and it is one of best sellers. For more details and to buy a doidy cup go to the kiddies kitchen shop.

The steady cup is a more traditional shape: its basically a normal cup but the base is wider than the top making it - you guessed it - more steady. For more details click through to our steady cup page.

Tommorrow I'll post about beakers and the thorny issue of valves!

posted by Richard @ 12:40 PM