Love this article!

[helmink0804]

I saw this on Facebook and loved it! Especially since my cousin was telling me I needed to stop holding Brooke's bottle for her and just let her do it- btw my cousin isn't a mom and I was getting annoyed- she knows how to hold her bottle she just doesn't always do it. She holds her own sippy cup. 

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[babybarlow2014]

Some kids never hold their bottle. I hold Jakobs otherwise he plays and squirts milk everywhere.

I love parenting advice from childless people. Or when they compare babies to their pets. Lol

[haykay13]

Aw I like that article! Thanks for sharing!

[helmink0804]

babybarlow2014, seriously it's annoying- and took all my strength not to say something. She thinks that since she works as a teachers aid she knows all. She even stopped feeding her bc she wouldn't hold her bottle.

[babybarlow2014]

Feb 23, 2015 22:42:08 GMT -5 helmink0804 said:

babybarlow2014, seriously it's annoying- and took all my strength not to say something. She thinks that since she works as a teachers aid she knows all. She even stopped feeding her bc she wouldn't hold her bottle.

Oh, good grief! So she would rather her not eat?

[helmink0804]

babybarlow2014, I just took Brooke and the bottle and nicely said it's better than her not eating.

[Susan0utLoud]

Seriously, I can't stand it when people compare their pets to kids. Also, DS does not hold his own bottle or cup.

[haykay13]

DS sucks on the bottom of his sippy 90% of the time when holding it himself.

[helmink0804]

Feb 23, 2015 22:50:59 GMT -5 haykay13 said:

DS sucks on the bottom of his sippy 90% of the time when holding it himself.

Haha Brooke does that too a lot!

[krl52014]

Kailey doesn't hold her own bottle, which is fine with me because I love holding her and feeding her : )

[helmink0804]

Feb 23, 2015 23:24:11 GMT -5 krl52014 said:

Kailey doesn't hold her own bottle, which is fine with me because I love holding her and feeding her : )

I do too! Especially since she's starting to not want to be held as much. Rather be down crawling around. Now we only get to hold her when she's tired ready for a nap/bed or taking her bottle!

[mary97]

Feb 23, 2015 22:50:59 GMT -5 haykay13 said:

DS sucks on the bottom of his sippy 90% of the time when holding it himself.

That is DD, she either chews the bottom most of the time, throws it or she bangs it on her tray.

[lrmrtn]

DS holds his bottle but that's because he's a control freak with his food. And he plays with it so formula ends up all over the place but if you try to take it away, all hell breaks loose. But he won't really eat solid food. I asked the pedi about it and she said don't worry, he won't go to kindergarten eating formula!

[Deleted]

No bottle holding here either -- I use glass bottles but small ones. Pedi doesn't care and said to just keep feeding him and using the bottle til a year and then try to move him to a cup of some sort.

[mary97]

I was holding DD's bottle and her daycare provider told me that DD should be holding her own. She can hold things so it never bothered me that she didn't hold her bottle. I only give her one bottle on a weekday, she gets the others at daycare, and it's her before bedtime one. That's snuggle downtime for me and I like holding the bottle for her.

She's now more interested in holding it herself, so I let her unless she starts playing with it then I will for her.

Talked to my mom about it the other day, she said she never made any of us hold our bottles.

[becole]

The daycare was trying to get lo to hold his own bottle because if they can hold their own, they are permitted to put them on a boppy to eat. I made sure to pull his hands away from his bottle at home, lol. I didn't want him to miss out one on one time at daycare with the teacher. It might be the only snuggle he gets from them.

[activebaby]

DS will hold a bottle, but not to drink out of it. If he's holding it he is using it as a teether.

[lecky11]

Feb 24, 2015 8:45:08 GMT -5 lrmrtn said:

DS holds his bottle but that's because he's a control freak with his food. And he plays with it so formula ends up all over the place but if you try to take it away, all hell breaks loose. But he won't really eat solid food. I asked the pedi about it and she said don't worry, he won't go to kindergarten eating formula!

This is us. She hasn't let us hold her bottle for the last month or two. I wish she would because she throws the bottle every time she needs to look around.

[bliz1712]

DD will hold her bottle but I've noticed that she doesn't always drink all of it because she gets distracted. I figure if she's going to hold her bottle I'll just lay her on the floor and get myself ready in the morning. She usually drinks her whole bottle but whenever I do that she doesn't. She looks around and sees something intriguing and decides she needs to explore it.

[mamarazziof3]

I have a friend who has criticized me for this with every one of my kids, claiming that I "baby" them too much and don't make them do things for themselves early enough. I am all for kids learning their independence and how to do things for themselves that are age-appropriate, but I just don't see the bottle thing as a big deal.

Also, I can't remember why, but when I was working on my master's in early childhood we had to do a placement for several weeks in the infant room of a child care center. It was one of the best centers in the area, and they did not allow babies to hold their own bottles. I think it had something to do with bonding, or making it more like nursing for the babies who still nursed at home... I can't remember the reasoning.

I just love that extra snuggle time with my little guy. They grow up too fast as it is! I know the day is coming too soon where he won't want to be held. :-(

[sstwinklinglites]

DS started holding his bottles about three months ago. He started doing it on his own and it's how he likes to drink his formula. He drinks the entire 8 oz bottle, & once he's emptied it, he starts banging it on his tray. Holding the bottle isn't something we taught him, and I do every so often miss feeding him myself.