at what age can they hold their own bottle? - Page 2

[AnneNic]

I think what you said was fine. It was honest!

Andrea

[adtake]

I work in Early Intervention and checking my charts her are what they say...

2-3 months recoginzes and reaches for bottle
4-5 months holds bottle with help
5-6 months drinks from cup with help
5-6 months puts both hands on bottle while feeding
8-9 months holds own bottle , picks up if dropped and finishes it (how would he 'drop' my breast??)

and my favorite..lol
4-5 months responds to real bottle as opposed to a picture of a bottle (same size) so...if I show my 4-5 months old a playboy will he respond???

I always skip these for the (sadly) few breastfed babies I work with. The charts I currently use need to be revamped for breastfed babies very badly.

And I think your answer was great!! People are always shocked to hear my boys havent had a bottle before.

[MomToKandE]

I think your response was fine. You didn't know the answer so it's not like you could make something up. You tried to be helpful and offered the info you did have about the cup.

I've been asked this question several times before and always resonded about like you did. Because I WOH my children have had bottles at daycare so even people who know I bf might think I'd know the answer. (neither child ever took a bottle from me though so I really don't know)

[2Sweeties1Angel]

I had to supplement DD and she started holding her own bottle around 5 months I think. I'm not really sure because I rarely gave her bottles at that age--Mom or DH gave them to her while I was at work and I mainly supplemented with the SNS at home until I brought my supply up enough to nurse without it. I know that when she figured out she could hold it on her own, she no longer wanted to be held while drinking her bottle

[Belle]

In my dd's baby book there's an entry about the first time baby held a bottle. Its blank in my dd's book, along with first slept through the night.

[Meiri]

I think your answer was fine. It was simple truth. If you don't know something, you don't know it. Making something up would be wrong.

When DD was a baby, 2 ladies at Sam's Club asked me where the formula was. I didn't know, politely said so and made a guess that it might be near the diapers. What more could I do?

[Shaunam]

I don't think there was anything wrong with your response.

My sister asked me this before. More like wondered out loud, since she knows I never gave DS a bottle. She wanted to know because she wanted her DD to be able to feed herself. She was trying to teach her to hold it when she was 3 months old! And sadly, I think that's a milestone that a lot of parents look forward to so they can spend even less time tending to their child. At least, that's what I see IRL and on mainstream boards anyways.

I used the opportunity to explain to my sister why she should continue to hold her DD, even after she mastered holding the bottle. I went into bonding, easier weaning from the bottle, baby not lying flat on her back while drinking (less likely to get ear infections), and less chance of baby-bottle mouth (since she can't carry around the bottle all day).

And I'm happy to say that my neice is almost 10 months old and still being held for every meal.

[CalBearMama]

Although, I really do want to know: When will ds be able to change his own diaper?

Probably not gonna happen. But you can EC, get him a potty, and leave him nakeybutt so he can take himself eventually . . .

(sorry for the OT post - I just couldn't resist)