6 Reasons to Skip the Sippy Cup with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP

#40: Did you know it’s TOTALLY fine to skip the sippy cup phase? As a new mom, this was news to me. I just assumed the baby went from breast or bottle to a sippy cup and then eventually to an open cup.  But my guest Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP set me straight! She’s a speech language pathologist specializing in infant feeding and pediatric swallowing and she designed my FAVORITE baby-led weaning cup, the Tiny Cup for ezpz. Dawn’s sharing 6 reasons why you want to skip the sippy cup and I think they’re going to blow your mind. From not being necessary to actually downright dangerous and potentially interfering with baby’s ability to hit feeding and speech milestones, you’re going to be looking at the sippy cup in a whole new skeptical way my friends! Listen to this episode to learn: Developmental necessity....well, the lack of it. Babies don’t need to learn how to suck fluid out of a hard plastic spout. Dawn explains the different types of suckling and swallowing patterns babies engage in at different stages of development, and why we don’t want to mess that progress up by introducing a sippy cup Those “spoutless” cups aren’t any better either. They say “dentist recommended” but they’re definitely not speech-language pathologist recommended. Dawn explains how the head and neck movements associated with learning to drink out of an open cup are impaired when baby is trying to learn how to drink out of a spoutless/360 cup...skip these ones too she says. What to look for in an open cup that your baby can start learning to drink out of around 6 months of age. She’ll explain how lip closure when learning to drink out of an open cup actually sets the stage for your baby hitting his or her speech milestones and she explains a little bit about the Tiny Cup (6-12 months) and the Mini Cup (12 months+) that she designed for ezpz. Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/40 Links from this episode: Learn more about Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP on her website www.msdawnslp.com and her Instagram @msdawnslp Check out the Tiny Cup Dawn designed for ezpz; this is a baby-led cup for babies age 6-12 months and you can check it out & get 10% off with code KATIE10. This is the Mini Cup Dawn designed for older babies and you move your baby to this cup at 12 months of age. Code KATIE10 also works for 10% off this cup. Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices