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Over the years I have purchased an embarrassingly large number of baby and toddler cups in the hopes that one day, one of them would not leak. (I’m sadly not kidding, we have a cupboard full of them.)
There have been sippy beakers with fold down nozzles, 360 sippy cups, tip and sip cups, stainless steel jobbies, silicone ones – a collection of vessels picked up in supermarkets and via 3am Amazon purchases.
And all of them have dribbled water out in varying degrees.
So you can imagine my extreme surprise when I discovered a toddler cup that doesn’t leak at all. It might not surprise die-hard fans of the brand, but the cup in question is from Tommee Tippee.
Recently, the baby brand launched a new leakproof range and I was pleased to get my hands on its new weighted straw cup for my one-year-old.
She’d been using a weighted straw cup from another brand but I found every time she put the cup down and left it lying on its side, water would seep out.
The result? Little puddles of wet dotted around our house. Fine on carpet, not-so-great on your nice wooden floors, even worse on your slippery kitchen tiles.
I was pretty sceptical that the cup would be leakproof, given my history (and cupboard full of useless drinking vessels). But incredibly we’ve been trying the Tommee Tippee cup for over a month now and there have been zero spills. Zilch!
Even when she launches the cup to the floor from her high chair: nada! It’s a modern-day miracle.
What wizardry is this? Well, the straw has a two-piece valve which stops water from escaping and somehow actually works.
It also has a flip-down cover to keep the straw nice and clean when not in use (a great feature when you’re out and about and you need to shove it under the buggy quickly).
According to Tommee Tippee, the cup is BPA free, as well as dishwasher and steriliser safe. Big fan of the fact it also comes with a handy brush to clean the straw.
The cups retail at £9.99 which I would argue is well worth the money if you don’t want to water-damaged floors or a soaking wet changing bag.
