I wanted to try and get my baby used to a beaker early on and so at around four and a half months I bought this Tommee Tippee Explora first sips beaker.

I decided on this beaker as it has a rubber type spout and so it seemed like it would be a lot kinder to my babies gums rather the the hard plastic type spouts. They also looked quite nice with the clear beaker at the bottom with nice rubber coloured handles to make it easy for your baby to hold and the matching colour teat. I bought blue for my little boy!

The handles are the perfect size for your little ones hands as my baby had no trouble at all in holding the beaker and the rubber strips also provide more grip for your baby to keep hold off it.

The beaker is designed to be non-spill and it is! My baby has thrown this around and nothing come out and unfortunately this is where the problem lies! The beaker has markers on in mls/ounces so you can see how much your baby has drunk. And despite my baby sucking on the teat for a while the water never seemed to go down. So I tried it myself, and even I couldn't get anything out! If a grown adult can't drink from this how is a baby?!

Because of this after the first time I tried it, we ended up putting it in the back of a kitchen cupboard which is where we have left it. I would recommend everyone to give this a miss as it really is a waste of money.