The baby is more than 1 year old, drinking milk and water with a bottle, but many people recommend to give the baby to drink water with a water cup, why the baby does not treasure can always use the bottle to drink water? How old do you have to switch to a water cup to drink? Will drinking from a bottle for a long time make you ugly? When a baby sucks on a pacifier, the upper jaw and tongue are squeezed because of the force of the mouth, which pushes the upper row of milk teeth forward and pushes the lower row backward, resulting in the upper and lower rows of teeth being inaccessible. In the long run, the baby’s upper and lower teeth will not bite together properly, affecting the chewing function of the teeth, and in serious cases, even affecting the development of the baby’s upper and lower jaws, allowing the baby to form a high palatal arch of “bottle mouth”, “buck teeth”, making the baby ugly. It may also affect the baby’s future pronunciation of words. When should my baby start drinking from a cup? There is no specific age for babies to start using cups. It is best to start trying to get your baby to drink from a cup when he is 6 months old. Or when you are breastfeeding or bottle-feeding your baby and his eyes keep looking around; chewing on the nipple in his mouth but not sucking; and trying to slide off your lap before the feeding is over. This indicates that your baby is ready to drink from a cup. Although 6 months is recognized as the best time for your baby to transition from a bottle to a water cup, there is always a learning process for your baby to adapt and it can’t happen overnight. How to train your baby to use a cup step by step? 1, 6 months: pacifier training cup When your baby is at the 6-month-old stage, you can train him to use his hands to grasp and hold things. But at this stage babies can still only suck food, so parents can use a bottle-style training cup for their baby to train him to bring the cup to his mouth accurately. 2, 7-9 months: duckbill training cup This training cup is designed to drink like a duckbill, which allows the baby to drink more water in one sip, which is good for the baby to use the water cup later. 3, 10-12 months: wide mouth training cup In this age baby’s grasping ability and sucking ability than before have improved, so you need to choose the flow of water than the duckbill training cup is larger than the cup, that is, wide mouth training cup. This kind of training cup does not have a protruding drinking mouth, more similar to the general cup. 4, 12-18 months: straw training cups Parents better not let their babies use such training cups too early, because children who are not yet a year old like to bite things, so they may bite off the straw on the water cup, thus the crisis. Although babies can bite the straw after they reach the age of one, they can better judge the danger and the possibility of swallowing the straw is small. 5.18 months and above: Ordinary water cup, start from imitation At the beginning, pour a small amount of water into the cup, let the baby use the cup only at a certain meal time (for example, noon) every day, and demonstrate how to bring the cup to the mouth and how to tilt the cup to drink the water, the mother will do the demonstration and the baby will imitate it. Parents should be patient enough until the child can drink most of the water down. Warm tips: baby’s cup should be checked and replaced often, the cup mouth, straw, seal in the process of frequent boiling and disinfection may be aging, by the baby nibble may have cracks, parents need to check the various parts of the cup often, so that timely replacement.