Aid for cup feeding

1. An aid for cup feeding of infants, which aid has a first liquid chamber and a second liquid chamber, wherein the first liquid chamber is provided for mounting on a feeding bottle such that the liquid can flow freely from the feeding bottle to the first liquid chamber and back, wherein the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber have a shared wall, wherein the second liquid chamber is a cup or bowl and open so that liquid in the second liquid chamber is accessible to the mouth of an infant using its tongue to move liquid out of the cup, characterized in that at least the shared wall is manufactured from an elastic material, the shared wall is provided with an incision with a minimum length of 3 mm positioned across the sidewalls of the feeding aid, and by compressing the sidewalls of the feeding aid by the fingers of a user a force is applied substantially in line with the incision, resulting in a deformation of the shared wall and an opening of the incision such that a liquid flow through the incision from the first liquid chamber to the second liquid chamber is controllable.

2. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the incision has a minimum length of 5 mm, preferably a minimum of 7 mm.

3. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the incision is continuous.

4. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the incision is formed in the elastic shared wall such that the incision is substantially closed when the elastic shared wall is in a rest position, and wherein the incision is provided so as to be opened gradually by manipulation of the elastic shared wall.

5. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first liquid chamber has a minimum volume of 1 cm 3 .

6. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second liquid chamber has a partition which divides the liquid chamber into two segments.

7. The aid as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the partition is placed substantially parallel to the wall.

8. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first liquid chamber is provided with an opening which is adapted to connect to a bottle opening so that feeding bottle and first liquid chamber are provided so as to together form a closed entity.

9. The aid as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the aid is provided with a flange at the position of the opening, which flange is pressed against an edge of the bottle opening using a mounting ring when the aid is mounted on a feeding bottle.

10. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first liquid chamber is substantially cylindrical, wherein the first end of the cylinder is provided for mounting on the feeding bottle and wherein the second end of the cylinder is provided with the wall.

11. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the aid is manufactured integrally from an elastic material by means of injection molding.

12. The aid as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the elastic material is a thermoplastic elastomer.

13. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second liquid chamber is bowl-like so that the second liquid chamber can contain a predetermined quantity of liquid.

14. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first liquid chamber is substantially cylindrical, wherein the first end of the cylinder is provided for mounting on the feeding bottle and wherein the second end of the cylinder is provided with the shared wall.

15. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the incision is made on or at least close to the longitudinal axis of the feeding bottle when the aid is mounted on the feeding bottle.

16. The aid as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the center of gravity of the first liquid chamber and the center of gravity of the second liquid chamber lie in line with the incision.