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How in the world

Rach21Rach21 member
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did you get your LO to start holding his/her own bottle? Gideon won't put his hands on his bottle while he's in the process of drinking, no matter what we've tried (although he will play with it when it is empty). Now, he's trying to get by with us holding the sippy cup. We've propped the sippy cup, we've put his hands on the cup and then walked away, and we've tried to let him try to figure it out. Is it just something he's going to have do on his own, or what???
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  • PunkyBoosterPunkyBooster member

    Hmm, is it just a developmental milestone that they do when they are ready? I'm sorry I'm not more help, DS has been doing it for quite some time. He just up and grabbed it one night and that was that.

    He DOES get lazy and sometimes wants me to hold the sippy cup for him. I just set it down and he picks it up again. 

    Keep offering it to him- he'll get it! 

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  • Dreamsicle23Dreamsicle23 member
    DS never held a bottle.  I got sick of it around 9 1/2 months and gave him a straw sippy and got rid of all the bottles.  He was more willing to hold it because he didn't have to tip it.  
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  • Smores730Smores730 member
    with both of my kids I'd make them practice with their morning bottle. They always really wanted that bottle so I felt like their motivation was highest then. I put them on the boppy pillow so it's harder to roll to their sides and kept making them put their hands on it.
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  • Rach21Rach21 member
    Great ideas, Smores and Dreamsicle! I'll try them out and see what works!
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  • drewiekcdrewiekc
    Some kids just dont.  DD RARELY holds her bottle.  Clearly she has the ability, she just doesnt do it.  She handles her sippys and other things just fine, but I guess prefers to let mom or dad do all the work with the bottle.
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  • hoping4stickyhoping4sticky member

    imageDreamsicle23:
    DS never held a bottle.  I got sick of it around 9 1/2 months and gave him a straw sippy and got rid of all the bottles.  He was more willing to hold it because he didn't have to tip it.  

    Pretty much this. I occasionally still give her a bottle, but she won't hold it. Straw sippy - no problem.

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  • Kara5109Kara5109
    DD never held her bottles, but she is on sippys now and she holds them.
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    imagedrewiekc:
    Some kids just dont.  DD RARELY holds her bottle.  Clearly she has the ability, she just doesnt do it.  She handles her sippys and other things just fine, but I guess prefers to let mom or dad do all the work with the bottle.

    Ditto this - DD does not often hold her bottle.  But she will hold a sippy and just about everything else you give to her. 

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  • AnabelsMamaAnabelsMama

    My LO does this although she held her bottle herself many months ago when DH or my Mon would feed her.  Now that she's older and we want her to hold her sippy cup, she won't.

    I gave birth to one stubborn little cutie. 

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  • KelzinBostonKelzinBoston
    My first son NEVER held his own bottle...we switched to straw cups and sippy cups exclusively at a year when we made the WCM switch and all was well!
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