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bottle feeding themselves/sippy cups... help!
How do you get your little ones to bottle feed themselves?? We've been trying since Abby was 3 months, and she can, she'll sit on our laps and hold the bottle... but she refuses! She's too lazy lol Do some babies just never bottle feed themselves? it would be so amazing if she could, but i don't see it happening!
Also, should I start trying to give her her formula in her sippy cup? I want he to get used to drinking from cups, but not sure if it eases the transition or whatever. I'm just kind of confused. She's pretty good at the sippy cup, she makes a mess because she'll fill her mouth up too much and then spit some of it out (uuhhggg she's so messy lol) but she still drinks out of it and gets a good 3/4 of it down.
Anyway, any advice on bottle/sippy feeding in general?
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Re: bottle feeding themselves/sippy cups... help!
Our pedi recommended we put formula in the sippy. I would give it a try with Abby.
With the bottle, Madison started to grab it from us in the mornings when she had her first bottle of the day. Sometimes I can just give it to her and she'll hold her hands and do it if I walk away- sometimes she still wants us to fed her I guess it depends on the mood. Have you given her a smaller bottle to hold vs a bigger one to start out with? Sometimes that makes it easier to hold.
Mikey didn't ever self feed himself with a bottle. He was very capable of holding it himself from about 5 months but as soon as he saw the bottle his arms would seriously go limp and he would not hold it.
I never put formula in his sippies. I always put water or juice and then once we moved to milk he got that in his sippies. He was bottle free at just a little over a year.
Alexis didn't hold her own sippy cup with milk until well after a year. She would hold her water or juice, but not for milk. Unless we were out and she had no choice, otherwise she would climb in my lap and want me to. Honestly, it wasn't a problem for me, she's still little and if she wanted to cuddle while drinking her milk, I didn't mind indulging her. Then one day, she started grabbing it from me and wanting to do it herself, and now she does it by herself only. I think they do it when they're ready, and they're all ready at different times.
Try putting formula in the sippy and see how she does. If it doesn't work yet, then put it in the bottle and try again in a few weeks, that's what I had to do a couple times, it wasn't until 11 months that Alexis would actually drink the formula from the sippy, even though she was happily drinking water and juice from it!!
I am so glad to read that other people's baby didn't self-feed. Kendall never did. Like Sam said - she could, but her arms just instantly go right down to her side when she saw the bottle. Kendall drinks water from her sippy with no problem - but just not her milk. I was actaully told by the pedi to start putting her formula in the sippy (at her 9 month appt) so that they just don't associate the cup with water/juice. I tried - but she just never took to it and I would give it to her in a bottle so she would get her formula. Different strokes for different folks, right?
She's a year now and we are trying to get rid of the milk bottle and teach her to drink milk from a sippy - but it's a little harder in my opinion since I didn't start her earlier. The doctor did tell us that if she drinks the water from the cup fine (which she does) - then it's her just being stuboorn. Regardless, I think had I put her formula in a sippy sooner, then maybe she would not be on a bottle still. Just my opinion.
Best of luck to you and Abby!
Do you still have an infant car seat? One that you can put in the house, where she is reclined back? This is how Sophia learned at daycare. They had two extra infant car seats, they would strap the babies in starting at 9 months and just give them the bottles. It was easier because they were reclined back. Sometimes they had to help them a bit but the babies started getting the hang of it pretty soon. Sophia was put in one of those seats the day she turned 9 months and when I walked in to pick her up she was doing pretty well. At home, I started laying her back in her boppy and she did well there, too. And when I wanted to hold her, I still had her feed herself.
At the point it was still formula in the bottle. I never really wanted to put formula in a sippy - I was saving that for milk.
HTH!
Hey Jenny. Zachary refuses to self feed his bottle! Refuses as in, he starts hysterically crying! LOL! It's actually kind of funny.
He will use the sippy cup. I started in his high chair and propped up his arms on the tray while putting his hands in the handles. He figured it out eventually. He usually holds the cup with 1 hand but sometimes will hold it with 2. I'm sure he will get a better hang of it eventually as we've only been doing it for like two or 3 weeks.
I have definitely found the sippy to be easier!
Oh, and I have put formula in the sippy. Not often... but he will drink it!
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They taught Zoe at the gym daycare. I wanna say around 9 months. They had her reclining a bit in a bouncy or swing.
Yes, I would say put formula in the sippy as soon as you want. It really helps with the transition off bottles by a year!