Anyone else's LOs not interested in holding bottle? My twin boys won't!

The-Anti-Bride

I'm not sure if it's because they're preemies (developmental?), or because they're twins (hard to teach when very little one-on-one feeding time with either), or because they're boys (well, they'll eventually become men, nuff said - LOL!) 

Anyone else?  Think when we go to sippies it will get easier?  The transition is scaring me!

KellyMichelle

My son never held his own bottle.  He did great with sippies and cups though.

justme04

My son doesnt really have an interest in holding his own bottle....He will hold it himself if we set it up for him but only for a little while.  He will hold it with his feet occasionaly too.

He doesnt seem into the idea of holding his sippy cup so he can drink out of it either.  But I've only tried a couple times...i'm sure it'll take practice.

albertabride06

Dylan doesn't have any interest in holding his bottle but he takes sippy cups and does great holding it one his own and drinking out of it.

meldoo2002

Our boys never held their own bottles.  We transitioned to all sippies at 1 year and they held them just fine after about a week.

mek10976

DS was able to hold a sippy way before a bottle.  I think he only started holding his bottle around 14-15 months.  My SIL seems to think bottle-holding is some major milestone and said he was lazy or delayed b/c he wasn't holding it at 12 months.  Whatever.

Kaytee1206

My DD never held her own bottle, I think she did maybe twice the whole time.  She was terrible with  regular sippy cups too.  She does great with straws so all her cups are straw sippys.  I think she doesn't like tilting things back into her face.  She still won't use a regular sippy.

jehprb

My son never touched let alone held his own bottle (and he was exclusively FF so there were plenty of opportunities - lol) ever but was fine with any cup, water bottle, etc. we ever gave him :-)

Mrs. Destructo

First off, I have to say that I LOVE your siggy pic. It is the cutest newborn twin pic I have ever seen!!!! It is so precious.

My guys never held their bottles either. One of my kids has struggled with reflux his whole life, and we didn't want him to have control of his bottle because  we didn't want to lose the opportunity to force extra food into his belly. They never showed any interest in holding their bottles and we didn't force the issue. And they are perfectly fine developmentally so it wasn't a symptom of a problem in any way