Nuby No-Spill Drinking Cup Review

The Nuby sippy is a very good product in theory. We were looking for a transitional sippy cup to help our daughter with being weaned from her bottle.  I did a lot of research trying to find the best methods that most parents used and came up with using sippys similar to bottles. I then did research to find a sippy that most closely resembled my DD bottles or a nipple. The Nuby early sippy cup was exactly what I thought I was looking for.  It resembled a bottle nipple and was soft, it was also affordable and I could go to walmart and pick it (as apposed to a specialty store).  Once we got this home, the problems began.  The holes at the top of the spout are so close together that my daughter could not get anything out.  We actually had to cut them to make them wider.  I understand why they did this, because there is no leak valve in this cup, but it was impossible for me to even get anything out! We were able to work through the closed holes, but we decided to retire the cup the day my DD pulled the soft top right out of the cup and was left sitting in a huge puddle of water, which she of course loved!  We were able to use this cup for maybe a month before my daughter learned that she could just pull the soft top out of the plastic ring that holds it to the cup.  By the time she did that she was able to use other sippys, so maybe it did it's job and helped her make the transition, but I will not be buying another one.