Most of children at early age is not able to drink from a cup. There is a solution! We choose a feeder to the kid correctly: that it brought only benefit, but did not cause inconveniences.
There are 4 types of feeders:
1. A feeder with straws – a feeder with a cover and straws through which the kid exhausts drink. For children of 9 months.
2. A sippy cup - thanks to the special valve, such feeder can be shaken, thrown on a floor, to gnaw edges and to roll on a table – liquid will not spill. For children 6 months are more senior.
3. Termopoilniki-neprolivayki – they perfectly are suitable for trips or walks since allow to keep liquid temperature a long time.
4. The training feeder – can be used as a small bottle with a pacifier or to change the top nozzle and to use as a classical feeder. For kids up to 6 months.
For all who are "younger" than 6 months – the small bottle will approach. But we will talk about it separately.
What to pay attention to, choosing a feeder:
1. Material
The most part of feeders - from plastic. You Ubyuditsya that such substances as bisfenol-A, phthalates and polivililkhlorid, melamine are not a part of a feeder. It is better to choose transparent plastic: so it will be easier for you to watch liquid level.
2. Feeder nose
Producers offer various models of feeders and noses also happen from various materials, however, the most successful is the silicone nose: it reminds the tot a small bottle and it will be more habitual and more convenient to drink from it to the tot. Besides, it is impossible to be wounded with a silicone nose, unlike inconvenient plastic (we tried various options)
3. Volume
Children's handles yet not such strong, as sometimes it seems to mothers and fathers, therefore choose the feeder, small on volume, corresponding to age of the child (see information on goods) If to the child the feeder "is big", then it will be more difficult to hold it; the kid will throw more often the feeder on a floor, and desire to use it will begin to vanish at the tot.
4. Handles
It is much more convenient to use a feeder with handles since the grasping reflex at tots did not die away yet. Capturing handles, the kid will quicker learn to use a feeder independently.
5. Protective valve
To take a feeder the protective valve is necessary. Besides, the child not so quickly gets used to new things. During training in use of a feeder, the protective valve will help the kid to remain dry.
6. Edges of a feeder
Problem of a feeder to prepare the child and to teach to drink from a mug. Means a feeder it has to be convenient to use as a mug – edges have to be smooth, not injure the child, have the convenient form that liquid did not spill (when remove a lid with a nose from a feeder, it is at first more convenient to leave handles on the mug feeder).
I wish you and it is good to your kids to have a rest this summer and to enjoy warm weather!
And finally - couple of photos of floating kids proving that they water and the child are inseparable since the birth each child right after the birth is able to hold reflex under water the breath and to float. There is such interesting fact =) But to learn to float it is possible only under supervision of skilled instkurtor and in a special paddling pool!