Many mothers will be familiar with sippy cups but here sometimes when I asked around for them not all the shop attendants knows what I’m talking about and I had to literally describe what it meant.

As most toddler, Lil’ A started using a sippy cup when he was 7 months old and by 12 months old he’s completely had ditch the bottles with huge success, part of it was luck I guess because he was never that attached to his bottle, it was just a tool to drank his milk so the switch to a sippy cup was a breeze.

We experimented with several brands of sippy cups before I finally set ‘my standard’ on Nuby Sippy Cups. It’s just easier to clean and doesn’t spill also very durable when it comes to enduring the toddlerhood torture (read: being thrown all over the place).

When we first moved to Asia, I scoured baby stores in Jakarta looking for Nuby sippy cups to no avail. Then came to find out, they had changed their design and I found them at Mothercare store, although the priced are more expensive than back in the States, I still use them because I tried other brands here and nothing beats Nuby. The last time Lil’ A and I went to the States, I bought so many sippy cups my MIL must’ve thinks I’m addicted to them. Now there’s been a scarce in Nuby sippy cups in Jakarta, I went to several different Mothercare stores only to find out that they’re out of stock.

Any moms will know that cleaning a sippy cup can be a pain in you knows where. The lids, straw and the tubes are the trickiest. My cleaning would involve toothpicks to reach those pesky little corners inside the lids and Dr. Brown’s Natural Flow Brush, it wasn’t exactly meant to clean sippy cups but it works amazingly great to clean the tubes and straws. For those molded juice, curdled milk or some other form of gunk in Lil’ A’s sippy cups, I soak it in warm soapy water for a few minutes then starts brushing and diggin with toothpicks. Once a week I would dump them all in a hot boiling water just for a few seconds to kill the germs. Unfortunately they don’t sell the 4 pack brushes here, after some search I found them but they are sold with the replacement tube for Dr. Brown’s Natural Flow wide neck bottle and at the price of Rp. 80,000 something (almost 8 bucks) just for 1 brush and a tube that I don’t need its expensive!

When I searched about these brushes I found this neat website called Sippy Stuff who sadly but not surprisingly doesn’t do international shipping to Indonesia. Their brush set looks so neat and perfect. Will definitely have to figure out how to get them here either thru our families or friends back in the US or simply start to wean him off his sippy cup completely.