Yes, messy is there until about age 5. My 6yo is still always messy after things like spaghetti!Just started to wean baby T and it’s so cute seeing him eat but the mess is driving me mad. He only likes it if I load up the spoon and then hold it infront of him, then he grabs it and guides it to his mouth whilst I still have a slight hold of it so he doesn’t stab himself in the eye, but he just ends up covered in food it took so long to clean it all up and bath him, is this what life will be like now?
he’s breast fed so has no idea what to do with a bottle or cup, I’ve been trying to get him to have some water with his meals but he can’t work out what to do with any type of bottle, I have a tum tum bottle and I even tried just putting water in a baby bottle but he doesn’t know how to drink anything thats not from my boob. Is it that bad if he’s not having any water? I offer him the boob after, so he’s not going thirsty. Do they just eventually figure it out?
An open cup is a great choice for a breastfed baby, as the motion they will make when getting water from it is very similar to the motion their jaw makes when breastfeeding. A cup like a doidy is great, and what all my kids have used, but any open cup is fine really.
My SIL gave ToddlerMe (16months nearly) a classic tommee tippee sippy cup last week and he hadn’t a clue how to get the water out of the spout They do get there with sippy cups, but we’ve always bypassed the middle man and gone straight to open cup, and a free flow bottle for when out and about.