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Babies: 6 - 9 Months
KDR1979
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When did your baby start holding his/her own bottle?
KDR1979
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I know that DS can hold a 7oz bottle and feed it to himself-he does it every Wednesday when my parents watch them. He will hardly do it for me though. Guess he knows that Mommy will do it for him.
I'd love for them to start holding their own bottles!!! It would make feedings go so much faster!
Wedding Fall 2007
Off OCP's since 9/08-started with BBT charts
Saw Ob/gyn May 2009
Blood work normal except single copy of MTHFR
Clomid 50mg May 2009
Clomid 50mg + IUI June 2009
Femara 5mg + IUI July 2009
Normal HSG July 2009
Femara 5mg + ovidrel+IUI August 2009
Femara 5mg +ovidrel + IUI September 2009
November 2009-normal lap
December 2009-met with RE
December/January-Injectible med cycle with IUI-Abnormal sperm morpology found-only 0-1% normal All Head defects.
Jan/Feb 2010 1st IVF with ICSI-5 week chemical pregnancy 
Feb 2010-male infertility doc says DH's anatomy and blood work are normal so nothing he can do.
FET July 2010-BFP! Twin m/c @ 5.5 wks
Dec/Jan 2011 IVF #2 Only 4 eggs retrieved-Ganirelix dose messed up BFFN
Feb/March 2011 IVF #3 ER 3/9 9 eggs, 7 fertilized, ET 3/14, No frosties. BFN
IVF #4 ER 8/22 9R,7F ET 8/25-3 embies, 1 frostie! Beta 9/2= 54, 9/6=274, 9/8=625, 9/12=2953, 9/16 greater than 10,000. B/G TWINS born April 2012 @ 36wks & 1 day!
July 2014-going back for the frozen embryo! ET 7/28, heartbeat seen at 6wks1day with SCH. Miscarriage confirmed at 6wks4days
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Re: When did your baby start holding his/her own bottle?
He can, but choses to play with it if I let him feed himself. Yesterday he actually held it and drank the whole thing, I was shocked.
Yes on occasion I do, and I feel quite certain I'm not the only person who has ever done so. We have to take a major highway home in the afternoons, and occasionally there are major wrecks. When I'm sitting in stop and go traffic for 2 hours in the middle of no where with no where to pull off and a screaming child in the backseat, then I don't have much of an option.
ETA: *Removed my B!tchy unnecessary comment.* But with that, theresat858, you are frequently quick to judge without knowing exact circumstances, and you tend to make rude and unnecessary comments. I'm sorry that my parenting choices "scare" you, but I'm sure everyone on here can agree that there are times you have to improvise.
Uh, "everybody does it" doesn't make it safe.
Look, you're a grown woman who makes a presumably educated decision when you're put in a particular situation. But don't be surprised when other people judge you for making a choice they wouldn't. Life is not a judgment free zone.
I'm old enough and well aware enough to know life isn't a judgment free zone and am definitley not surprised by it. Was I a little defensive? Yes, probably so. Thanks for pointing it out. I generally try to be fairly open minded, but if someone is going to judge me, then they need to be willing to take a step back and evaluate how they would handle a situation. If they still feel their way is better, then go ahead and explain it to me. I'll listen. I'll admit that I'm not the perfect mother nor do I have all of the answers, but that is why I come here...to get answers. I think that's why a lot of people come here. But when the same person constantly makes holier than thou statements just to make them, then that's not helping anyone to learn why their way of thinking/doing things is possibly better. It's not helping anyone to learn anything.period. In the future, I will ignore that certain person's snide comments.
I hear ya. I've been there. It's not considered the safest thing, but until some people have been in major traffic for hours with an infant screaming for food with no signs of moving anywhere; yeah, you'll feed them in a car. You can't do EVERYTHING "by the book" with babies, they don't belong in bubble wrap and real life doesn't allow for it.
If what you did is bad, then I guess I should be crucified. Once stuck in a line of traffic for a tanker truck accident for almost 4 hours when DD ate through both of her bottles (we only packed 2 bottles because I BF and stop regularily to feed but in this case obviously couldn't) we were nowhere near a stop so after 45mins of her screaming and me trying to play with her to apease her, I took her out of her seat and fed her. Yup, right out of the car seat to BF. Good thing too because we had moved maybe 10 km over total of 7 hours. She would have been one hungry kid.
You do what you can when you can. People will judge but unless they have a better suggestion or can say they would have done something differently just take it with a grain of salt. I get what you're driving at. It's not like you sit a rolly baby on a change table and walk away for stuff and come back. To me there's levels of dangerous and feeding a baby a bottle in traffic is not high on my radar.
Why in heavens name would that not be safe???? Seriously.
Agreed. I have done it in those same circumstances. Also not a huge fan of the judging as I have experienced it more than once and seen it lots.
Lurking and ^seriously?