Help! My One and a half year old son dont know how and doesnt want to know how to HOLD his Feeding Bottle.?

Question

my one year and 3 months old son still doesnt want to help feed himself. he doesnt drink milk without somebody holding up the bottle for him... what will i do? how would i teach him?

Answer 1

Does he drink from a cup yet? Does he eat finger food without help, or at least try? Has he met all his other developmental milestones?

If he's meeting all his developmental milestones in other areas, you may just need to switch him to a cup. He's ready at this age for one.

Offer it as often as possible. When we switched our daughter to a cup we had to actually teach her to use it by holding the cup to her mouth and doing it for her.

However, if he's not meeting other milestones you may want to consider addressing it with his doctor as it could be a part of a developmental delay.

Answer 2

Get rid of the bottle and give him a cup. He is plenty old enough to drink from a cup. At this point he is not drinking from a bottle for nutrition (I hope) but rather just pacifying himself.