Tum Tum 3 Way Trainer Cup – Free Flow, 180ml

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Color: Blue

Brand: Tum Tum

One cup, three stages. It starts as a free-flow straw cup for a baby just off the breast or bottle, becomes a transition cup as they learn to sip from a rim, and ends up as an open cup with handles. No valve anywhere in that journey — nothing for your little one to fight against, just a drink when they ask for one.

Designed with feeding and swallowing specialist speech therapist Stacey Zimmels, which is why each stage is shaped the way it is rather than simply being a cup with bits taken off.

Stage 1 — Free-flow straw cup

The ideal first cup after breast or bottle. The straw is deliberately short, which encourages a mature swallow pattern rather than the suck babies already know. There's an air hole in the lid to let steam escape, so warm milk goes in the cup it's drunk from.

Stage 2 — Transition cup

Lid on, straw out. The recessed rim lets your little one close their lips around the edge exactly as they would on an open cup, but with far less on the floor while they work it out. This is the stage that does the real teaching.

Stage 3 — Open cup

Two handles for small hands to grip, a wide base that resists the inevitable elbow, and a measure marked inside so you can see what's actually gone in. Drinking from a cup, properly, unaided.

The practical bits

Soft, flexible silicone. Gentle on new gums and forgiving for determined chewers — it gives rather than cracks.
Warm or cold drinks. The silicone handles anything from -40°C to 250°C, so freezer, fridge and microwave are all fair game. 180ml is a sensible first-cup size.
Dishwasher and microwave safe (lid out for the microwave). One less thing to decant.
Won't shatter when dropped. Which, let's be honest, is where it's headed.
Food-grade silicone. Naturally bacteria-resistant, BPA and phthalate free.
Tested to EN14350 — the European safety standard specifically for children's drinking equipment.
Wide anti-topple base. Not impossible to knock over, but it takes some doing.

Looking after it

Wash thoroughly before first use and after every use. It's dishwasher safe, and microwave safe with the lid removed.

If your detergent leaves a film or a faint smell behind — silicone can hang on to it — clean with hot water and a little white vinegar or bicarbonate of soda. It lifts the residue and the cup comes back fresh. Worth doing before first use too.

Good to know

Clever little ones work out how to lift the lid rather sooner than you'd like — which is rather the point, but keep a mat under the high chair while they practise. Open-cup drinking is a messy skill long before it's a tidy one.

In the box

180ml silicone cup with two handles and interior measure
Straw lid with air hole
Short straw
Straw cleaning brush

Patented design.

💡 Which of our cups should you choose?

Three free-flow cups, three different jobs. This is the learning cup — straw, then a recessed rim, then an open cup with handles. Our free-flow silicone sippy cup is the one for the table once they've got the hang of it, and the Tum Tum Tippy Up Cup is the one for the changing bag — free-flow and leakproof, with a weighted straw that keeps drinking even when the cup is tipped.

Our guide to sippy cups explains when to start, what the NHS actually recommends, and how to be off bottles by twelve months.