Does Lo hold their own bottle yet?

jessrenee11 · July 2011

I was feeding K in front of my brother the other day and he was all surprised that K didn't hold her bottle. She has like the smallest hands ever and really no interest in hold it but now I'm all worried that she should be. I should as stated that my brother thinks he is a parenting genius ... Does your Lo hold their bottle yet?

julesmarie80 · July 2011

Yeah, he pushes my hand out of the way when I'm trying to give him a bottle. Little punk.

jillybean800 · July 2011

No. Sometimes he will put his hands on it, so I'll take my hands away, and he immediately drops the bottle. I guess why hold it if someone is holding it for you, haha!

Serendipity117 · July 2011

O will hold his bottle if I lay him on the floor and give it too him. However, if I am holding him he flat out refuses to hold it, resting his arms by his side or playing with his clothes instead. Weird little boy, lol.

Mommysaurus123 · July 2011

Landon usually puts his hands on the bottle but doesn't support the weight. I have a friend with a DD who was holding her own bottle by 6 months, but I'm curious if the difference is BF/FF. Since I still nurse L most of the time, he is only drinking from a bottle maybe 10 feedings a week, vs maybe 60-70 times a week that a FF would get... so he has much less practice, so I think that's why it's taking longer.

LuckyladyJ · July 2011

yes he can but I still hold it for him.

MommaEA · July 2011

I have no idea, lol. I have never given LO a bottle. He has only had a bottle a few times this summer since I am home with him. I always laugh that I have hardly ever bottle-fed a baby.

rosannek · July 2011

LO has been holding his for a few weeks now, but I think the fact that we use Drop-Ins helps because if you push out all the air, he doesn't have to hold up too high to drink. Just the last few days, he started holding it fully up.

If it makes you feel better, my cousins LO is 12 months and still doesn't hold hers. hth

thatgirl85 · July 2011

A will hold his own bottle, but he isn't coordinated enough to keep it in his mouth. I hold it for him, but he tries to get it away from me. My friend also recently made a comment about how he should be able to hold a bottle my now.

SmilingMrsF · July 2011

If the bottle isn't too full, DS can hold it for about a minute or two. He doesn't get the bottle up as high as I hold it, but he holds it high enough to get milk out of it.

xxbabycakesxx · July 2011

griff would put his hands around the bottle around 3 or 4months. in this past month he started to actually hold the bottle by himself and feed himself.

janneann1127 · July 2011

He can, but he'd rather I do it. Also, it's hard at first for him because it's so heavy, but once it gets towards the end, he grabs it from me and wants to do it himself.

KristieElizabeth · July 2011

She tried to hold it around 4/5 months, but quit trying. She will hold a sippy though.

missmuffin87 · July 2011

Yes. she's been able to for a couple months now. She would rather hold it herself than have me do it

kat81again2 · July 2011

DS holds his own bottle but he has a little bottle. We use the 5oz ones that come with the medela pumps.

TobleroneBar · July 2011

LO has been holding his own bottle since 4 months...it's been really handy!

Sonadora · July 2011

KristieElizabeth:
She tried to hold it around 4/5 months, but quit trying. She will hold a sippy though.

This

OhSewCrafty · July 2011

Yup - at this point we just lay him on his boppy and hand it to him and he does the rest. When he's done he throws it. lol Can't lie - its kinda nice...except for the throwing part.

Connys1976 · July 2011

B doesnt get bottles very often, but when she does she can hold them however doesnt always hold them high enough to get the milk. She does the same with the sippy cup.

mavs_girl07 · July 2011

He can hold it for a minute or so, but after that he forgets to tip it up or drops it or just starts playing with it. So I just hold it for him.

This isn't really one of those make-it or break-it milestones though, kwim? It's really not a big deal. DD didn't start holding her own bottle until she was 14mos and getting ready to transition completely off bottles! She just never had any interest in it. She held and used a cup just fine, so there was never any reason to be concerned about it.

MrsDe2008 · July 2011

Every baby is different, so please don't compare your LO to everyone else's. I'm sure your baby is right on track, whether she holds the bottle herself or not. Nothing to stress over.

DD has been hold her bottle for awhile now (probably before she was 6 months), but my SIL's DD2 wouldn't hold her own bottle at the age of 1yo, so every kid is different and it may be a comfort thing that LO wants you to hold the bottle for her.

EVM1216 · July 2011

I was wondering this about DD because we don't bottle feed her at home. As I was leaving daycare last week they gave her a bottle and she doesn't even try to touch it. She doesn't understand the concept of a sippy cup yet either, she thinks of it as a chew toy.

CamilleJon · July 2011

J will hold his bottle, but he can't tip it up yet in his highchair. So I usually lean he back into the corner of the coach or in his bobby so he can actually feed himself.

It took a lot of practice over the last month. Every time I gave him a bottle I would "make" him wrap his hands around the bottle as if he was holding it.

awagner122210 · July 2011

yes Bryson does. He has been been for a couple weeks. And he flips the F out if you don't give it to him fast enough. To get him to hold it on his own we would place his hands on the bottle so he would get used to that, now we hold the bottle away from him & let him reach out & grap it and he'll pull it to his mouth & hold it

reddroses · July 2011

OhSewCrafty:

Yup - at this point we just lay him on his boppy and hand it to him and he does the rest. When he's done he throws it. lol Can't lie - its kinda nice...except for the throwing part.

This. But thankfully he just lets the bottle slide down his side when he is finished.

msualum96 · July 2011

He JUST started, like this past weekend...but now that he does, the little stinker WON'T LET GO! We like to give him a break & burp halfway through, but holy cow just try to get that thing away from him! LOL

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