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Bickiepegs Doidy Cup
by CosmicLove
Malakai hasn't been the biggest fan of his sippy beaker just lately, and he was finding it difficult to drink certain beverages out of it such as thick smoothies or thick fresh juice, as the opening hole wasn't too big and was best suited to water, or diluted juice.
Because of this I ended up buying him a doidy cup, which was ... recommended to me by a wonderful friend of mine from parenting classes. I hadn't heard of doidy cups before, so I took to google and had a little read about what it was, and then looked on amazon to see how much they cost.
I had a feeling that they would be expensive - and at the full retail price they are, as they're around £10 at the full price but I got mine for less than half of the price from amazon. I paid just £3.38 for Kai's doidy cup, which was no doubt one of the biggest bargains I've bagged so far this year, haha.
There was four different colours to choose from including pink, red, blue and yellow - I chose blue, though I will be buying a couple of other colours too as Kai has really taken a liking to this cup! At first, Kai didn't understand that this was a cup. I think he thought that it was a water toy (we have little plastic tubs that we use for water play).
After showing him how to use it (eg drinking from it, lifting it up, putting it down, using the handles and keeping it upright) though he used it perfectly at first and sipped away happily but then when he had sipped all of the juice closest to the top of the cup he seemed to lose focus and he still has not got the hang of it. I filled it with juice rather than water because he's not too keen on the taste of water and I knew juice would be a tasty way of getting him motivated to drink from the cup. He used it really well and drank from it impressively well, but then as soon as he couldn't get the rest of the juice out it all went wrong and he tipped it all over himself!
This of course turned into a bit of a game and in the end I gave him his sippy again as he knows how to drink from it, despite not really liking it much anymore. We are still in the process of teaching him how to drink from the doidy cup and he seems to be getting the hang of it and is learning how to hold it properly without spilling it but just as I think we're getting somewhere he will tip it too far (sometimes deliberately) and it will spill everywhere! Patience is key with this product.
It's messy, and i am not able to control him that much with this which I know will freak some parents out, but personally I think it's fun to make a little mess and I make sure we use it in the kitchen as we have tiled flooring, or outside. The cup is very robust and well made and the handles are easy for Kai to grip. I wouldn't have paid full price for it, but I am happy with it considering that I got it for such a bargain price and Kai is a fan, too!
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Bickiepegs Doidy Cup
by kat1234
When I felt my son was ready to progress from bottles and cups with drinking teats or straws, I set about a bit of research on how to introduce them to drinking from a cup. Time and time again, this 'doidy cup' from bickiepegs was mentioned and, as it was priced at a reasonable £2.50 at the time, I decided it was worth ... purchasing.
The doidy cup is meant to be a good way for toddlers to learn and develop the skills required to drink from an open cup. It is basically a plastic cup with two handles (one on each side) but the top is slanted so that the lip of the cup that is drunk from is longer than that on the other side of the cup. The idea of this is that it allows wobbly handed toddlers to lift and tilt the cup towards them easier than a conventional cup - and makes it easier for the drink to remain contained in the cup rather than spilt over the side.
The cup is made from a thin (but durable - we have dropped it a few times!) plastic and is available in several colours - red, blue and pink. We have the blue version, which is a dark shade of blue. I first used this with my son with a little water in at lunch time and just let him investigate it really - he promptly tipped it up and spilt the water over the table. Non-deterred, I gave him this again and again he had little interest in drinking from it - even after I had demonstrated how to do it. He did grab the handles in the correct way, which was promising, but failed to lift it to his lips. We persevered every mealtime for about a week but my son just didn't seem to recognise this as a cup - when I offered him a regular child cup he was much more keen to drink from this. This probably led to more spillages than we would have had with the doidy cup, but he was much more accepting of this.
Perhaps if the doidy could have been made more appealing to my son - for example with a pattern/character on it, it would have been more successful. This is impossible to say though and it may be that it just didn't work for us. It was not too expensive so I do not regret giving it a try and I could not say it was completely useless - it just wasn't for us!
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