Am absolutely thrilled with this bottle. My son has for months chewed the soft drinking spouts and I bought a spout after another. That can not happen with this hard drinking spout. My son needed although 2-3 days to get used to the new spout, because he had to pull a little harder on this, but now it works just fine and I am glad not to have to buy new ones every week drinking spouts. Have directly or ordered such a bottle!