So Ivan has started drinking milk from the cheap first years sippy cup. He didn't protest when I gave him his crib/morning milk in that sippy cup, nor has he complained about it at any subsequent nap or bed time.
He hasn't wanted the born free sippy cup since yesterday. (This does make me a bit sad because this development, while a significant milestone, also means that he's slowly outgrowing his babyhood. I felt a similar but much more amplified tinge of loss when he stopped breast feeding)
The cup doesn't leak, unless he holds it upside down and then the milk freely flows, which, of course, happens when he's falling asleep hugging his Medic in one arm and the bottle in the other. It's often impossible to pry the bottle out unless he's fully asleep, by when the undrank milk has leaked out onto the sheets. Rancid milk smell.
It cracks me up that I was pondering the best sippy cup choice the same day that Slate ran an actual article about the leak-proof sippy cups. The journalist was trying to solve the same rancid milk smell.
Some of the cups he tested, like The Safe Sippy and Foogo, I saw and considered buying. But since I had decided to splurge 15 bucks on the stainless steel born free water bottle, I couldn't get myself to spend another 15 or so bucks on a similar looking product, especially since I wasn't sure whether Ivan would go for the stainless steel container.
But the two other cups Dr. Brown's Natural Flow Training Cup and Nalgene Grip-n-Gulp Bottle , which the journo rated highly, I don't recall seeing at the store. I just may have to go back to further research and explore and buy.
The rancid milk issue is really getting stale, no pun intended.
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