Just a quick question...
How old was your baby when they finally held their own bottle?
My boys 7 months and still not doing it,hes crawling,pulling up saying mama,nana,dada and mmmm(for food) but still has no intrest in holding his bottle I have tried and tried to give it to him to let him do it,but no luck.
Seems my girls were holding their own by now,and he is so excited about sissys sippy cups and will drink out of them(if I hold them) so i'd love to switch him(at least juice) but want him to be able to hold it first.
Any feedback for me??
Thanks ladies, you are always so helpful!!!
~N. J.
Well...we had a well-child apt today,so I brought it up to the doc who said the same as you all! So long as hes doing everything else,which is above and beyond the growth chart and doing everything a 9-month old can,then hes just being lazy!!I can't believe the difference between a boy and girl! They are like night and day!! I'll love him being little as long as I can though,looks like hes ganna be the last one!! Thanks for all you input!!!
Hi there,
You should stop holding the bottle for him. When he eats, prop the bottle up for him. He'll learn to hold it faster if the bottle keeps being propped up instead of someone holding it.
My 3 year old daughter never held her own bottle. When we switched to a sippy cup she started holding it. She was well over one before this happened. I used to ask the same question. All kids are different.
How sweet - you get to have a boy the third time around. You have stumbled upon one of the differences between little boys and girls. While they are trainable, it is so cute that little boys like to have everything done for them or to be held. :) I have boy/girl twins and it is fun to see the differences. I treat them the exact same way and everything! On the bottle issue though - neither held their own bottle - ever! I got them off bottles at about one year (evening bottle still lingered) and still they did not hold them! It was crazy looking back because with twins having them hold their own bottle would have been helpful! :)
So, no worries - have fun seeing the difference in boys and girls. Boys are SOOO cuddly! Coincidentally, my son will NOT let me hold his cup EVER! He has to do it himself now - they are both two.
Quit holding it for him.
As long as he continue to get the results he wants, he will have no desire to hold it. I would give it to him, prop it up and leave him with it. If hes hungry... he will eat once he sees that mom is not going to hold it for him. It will probably take several times and some good screaming, but you can't be there to always hold his hand. Now is a good time to start teaching some independence.
I think my daughter came to this world holding hers but my son was a different story. I'm not sure how old he was but I remember that it wasn't long after he started holding his bottle that we went to a sippy cup. (He prob. would have let me hold that if I would have let him LOL) I think it is a boy thing. Don't worry he prob. can do it just choses not to. Sounds like he is a health little boy and doing all the things he is suppose to.
Hi N., Everyone definitely has their own time frame for doing things. I would say that if he is interested in his sister's sippy cup, let him try one. If you have to hold the bottle for him, why not hold the cup for him! I have three boys, and they all took to the cup pretty well. My youngest used a cup all day (from about 8 months I think), but still took a bottle at night until his first birthday. I just stopped giving it to him, and he didn't seem to mind. Anyway, I hope this helps a little! Good luck.
My son never held his own bottle. We just kind of laughed and said we guessed he was too lazy to do so as he did everything else well and when he wanted to. ;) We quit giving him bottles all together at 14 months (took only two a day at a year and one a day at 13 months). But, we always had to hold his bottle for him when he ate. He did fine with the sippy cup once he decided he wanted to drink out of one. Some of my friends had this same issue with their boys ... leave it to a boy to be lazy and want to be waited on! Ha ha! Good luck!
My daugther did not hold her bottle until she was 9 months old. So hang in there. They all do things in their own time.
Boys just want to be taken care of. Girls are better at being independent. My little one would actually hold his hands far away from his bottle as possible when I tried to get him to hold his bottle. Yours probably can hold his bottle but won't because he knows you will. My 3 year old, still wants to be carried all the time, will try to get me to feed him, etc. I have to make him walk and feed him self. And it seems that it doesn't change when they are men either.
