My Son Will Not Hold His Own Bottle/cup

Well my nine month old does the same thing I started to look away and he eventually he started holding it himself. Some babies just want momma to do it all. Its normal. If not for his bottle prop it up with a blanket in his car seat strapped in. That helps him learn how to hold it as well. I have 4 kids so i had to do it cause they always want something at the same time im feeding the baby lol typical huh. Well good luck
K. W

By the time my oldest was old enough to hold his own bottle he
was one and I thought it would never happen. Then I realized
that if he is far enough along to hold his bottle, he is far
enough along to hold a cup. So we took away the bottles and
only gave him cups (sippy). I had no problems with the
transition. Now my second son just turned one a few weeks ago
and I can tell he is far more attached to his bottle than my
older son so his transitioning phase is going to be a bit
longer. We lay him down on a boppy and give him one bottle
in the morning and one in the evening. All the rest are sippy
cups. If you use the avent bottles you can buy an attachment
that are handles. It really helped my one year old hold his
bottle by himself.
Best of luck, Jen

Hi B.,
Kiddos are such creatures of habit that usually, the best way I've found to train my 18-mth old to do anything, is to stop doing it for her. Believe me, when your son gets hungry enough, he'll pick up that bottle all by himself! :) If you're not comfortable with that, then you may have to wait until he's ready. I know how hard it is sometimes when you work full time and you're trying to stay on a schedule and you feel like you don't have the time you need to "train" them that morning, b/c you're already running late. But on the weekends, do it as much as you can to start the process and then work it in on weekdays, especially dinner time.

Good luck!
K.

My son was the same way - it was a bit over a year before he would totally hold his cup or bottle. At about 14 months he totally switched to a cut (even at bedtime) and loves holding cups on his own. He is 18 monts now and you would never know he liked having his bottle held for him for so long. Iwouldn't worry about it, he will do it eventually.

I had to laugh while reading this one. I thought I was the only person who had "a lazy child". That is what I used to call her anyhow. My second daughter was breastfed till she was 9 1/2 mos old, but she had also been bottlefed my breast milk since she was 6 weeks old when I returned to work full time. By the time she was 10 mos old she refused to hold her own bottle. It would drive me insane because my milk had dried up and I was still cleaning out the milk stock from the freezer. I thought she should be on her own with this whole bottle thing, but she had other thoughts on that I guess. All I can tell you is to have patience. I finally determined that this was just her way of having bonding time with me. By the time her first birthday came around she was finally up walking and holding her bottle herself. Good luck!

Try to be patient for another month or so? My son was the same way and i thought he never would. I thought he was perfectly happy not holding it, but one day around 11 months, he grabbed it and from that point on, he wanted to be left alone with it.
Try to wait a little longer before you force things. It really wasn't important to me. Just think, you shouldn't have to worry at all about bottles in a couple of months!

let him be a baby!!! if you are patient, he will do it when he is ready...but why force it?? is it really a big deal if you have to cuddle him for another month before he decides he has more important things to do than sitting with mom??
enjoy it while it lasts!!! :)

My boys didn't hold their own bottles till the week before they turned one. They would play with bottles and cups but wouldn't drink from them. I wouldn't be concerned with it he will do it when he wants to, he probably just likes the one on one time with you when you feed him.

Hi B.,

I have to agree with Kimberly when she said "when your son gets hungry enough, he'll pick up that bottle all by himself"
It's absolutely true! Sometimes you just have to let little ones learn by themselves. You might need to let him cry for a while but when he realizes you aren't doing it for him he'll figure it out =)

Good luck!
M. N.

try a cup with a straw.