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« on: December 22, 2005, 14:58:08 pm »
Just wondering when babies start holding their own bottles?  My dd is 10months now and I still hold it for her.


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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2005, 15:04:01 pm »
It differs for many kids.
Some are just lazy, like my ds, and I held his bottle until we tried to get rid of it around a year! :shock:

But, it also helps with the bonding, in my opinion. 

Have you tried to get your lo to hold it and she just doesn't, or holds it for awhile and throws it? :wink:

It IS nice though when they start - just one less thing you have to do! :wink:
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2005, 15:05:23 pm »
Mine is 8 months and can hold a bottle (only a certain kind I bought her in America though) but hates doing it and will not do it unless I force her. SO usually i do not bother.
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« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2005, 15:07:07 pm »
I think it was around 6 months that I figured out that he could hold it.  He never let me hold it after that.  Fine with me!
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« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2005, 15:08:43 pm »
Mine never did either. He'd put one hand on it while I was feeding him, but he would never hold it on his own. I held it until we got rid of it at 1 yr.
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« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2005, 15:21:18 pm »
Molly is 8 months and I still hold her bottle. I feed her while she is sitting in her bouncy chair as at about 5 months she refused to be fed "like a baby"!!! She will hold it on her own occasionally, but then just likes to play with it, tip it upside down etc. so I usually take over!
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« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2005, 16:27:06 pm »
Ethan doesn't hold his bottle at all either.  Doesn't even try to put a hand on it, unless it's to push it away to signal "I'm done!".  I figure he's just lazy, so I'm not going to force it, since we'll be getting rid of it *hopefully* in a few months anyway!



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« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2005, 17:12:05 pm »
John held is own....Zoe never really did  :D
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« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2005, 18:34:28 pm »
I still hold it too.   :oops:   If I try to get Nathan to hold it, he goes nuts on me.  But in a way, I still like our quiet feeding time each day when I get to hold him.
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« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2005, 02:41:50 am »
andrew is six months old and has just recently (in the last 2 weeks) figured out how to hold his bottles.

we have the avent bottles and he can hold the 4 oz bottle like a pro, the bigger 9 oz bottles though are a little trickier for him.  mostly we still hold him and feed him while holding the bottle for him although it is nice that he can do it himself as well.

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« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2005, 03:16:44 am »
My 1 year old will hold her own bottle laying on her back but she hasn't yet worked out that she needs to tip the bottle or sippy cup to get liquid out if she's upright. I have been trying to teach her but no luck yet. Her cousin is 2.5 months younger and he is able to tip a bottle or sippy up to drink. Just goes to show how different they all are.
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« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2005, 05:20:34 am »
I'm attachment parenting my son is 16 months and even though he can still hold the bottle I still try to hold him. IS there a resson why you dont want to hold her?
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« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2005, 05:44:36 am »
I read an article that said that the bonding between mother & baby while bottle feeding if held & they look into each other's eyes can actually be stronger than bf if done up until 12mo. This writer said that when comparing bottle fed infants 10mo ) who held there own bottles & those bf there was a stronger attachment to the mother for bf babies BUT when comparing 10mo, where the mother still held the bottle, the attachment was the same for both bf & mother held babies.
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« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2005, 19:32:07 pm »
My baby is three months and she holds gribs it with both hands and controls it, but I have a feeling she doesn't quite know she is doing it, of course I am always the one still feeding her.
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« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2005, 23:50:28 pm »
My son never held his own bottle (we stopped bottles at a year when I returned to work - my choice because I didn't like the thought of his babysitter having that special time with him).  The closest he ever came was holding my thumb and baby finger while I fed him.

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« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2006, 00:04:33 am »
Thanks for replying everyone.  It's reassuring that lots of the babies never held their own bottle.  I won't worry about it anymore :D Tarri


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« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2006, 00:35:25 am »
My dd never really tried to hold her own bottle and honestly I'm glad she didn't.  I really didn't want her getting too attached to them as I really wanted to get rid of them at a year and thought if she was never used to holding it, it might be easier to do.  Don't know if that really had anything to do with it, but she dropped them at a year with no fuss...