What age should my daughter be taking room temperature and cold bottles?

Question

She is 5 months and she refuses even room temperature bottles. Should I just only give her them, or should I wait. I'm scared she won't ever want cold milk when she is supposed to have it. Is it normal that she only wants heated bottles.

Answer 1

you can keep trying cool or room temp, but my daughter started liking cold when the weather got hot outside and when teething.  She even prefers cold food now- yuck!

Answer 2

My daughter is almost 4 months old and she is the same way.

I don't think that there is any reason to be worried at her preference for a warm bottle.

Her tummy may digest warm bottles better.

Just like you have a preference as to if you want ice with your drink, or if you like it room temperature, she has chose this way to drink her bottles.

Keep trying ever so often to give her a room temperature bottle, never cold, though.

I'm sure that over time, she will learn to take them as well as warm bottles.

Answer 3

when she's 6 months old, offer her a sippy cup of cold water.  she might never want her breastmilk or formula cold, but she will probably take other things cold.  don't worry about it now.

Answer 4

She can have cold and room temperature bottles whenever she starts liking them.There's really no age limit on that type of thing.

And you still have quite a few months before you have to start worrying about if and when she will like cold milk. It's probably not the taste of the colder formula, but how it feels in her mouth. As she gets older, she will start drinking other things (water, juice) and they will be cold. Give her time, and she will get used to it.

Answer 5

if thats what shes used to thats what she'll want. u can gradually lower the temperature of her bottles. eventually until they are cold. but in the hospital the bottles they give you are room temperature there is nothing wrong with not heated bottles. they are just more soothing and help them go to sleep

Answer 6

well if its what she has had from birth then it will be a big change for her. i was the opposite, the hospital i gave birth in gave us room temp bottle s and told us they were fine to give like that, when i got home i thought it would be nicer to heat them for her and she refused them. in a month or so, offer her some boiled water cooled to room temp and see if she will take that, if not, just keep offering it maybe once a day and eventually she may take it.

Answer 7

The worst thing that can possibly happen is that if you choose to give her cow's milk you have to warm it -that is not a problem, and certainly not something to start worrying about 7 months before she can even have cow's milk.  Also there is nothing saying you have to ever give a baby cow's milk in a cup, or dairy products at all.  Nor do you have to stop giving formula at 1 year.

Why is is that people are so afraid their babies will never grow up?

Have you ever met a healthy teenager who wears diapers, drinks from a bottle, doesn't know how to use a spoon, and doesn't know how to walk?

http://www.naturalchild.org/tine_theveni...

When our children develop a "good" habit, one that suits us, we are afraid it is not going to last. But when our children develop a "bad" habit, one that does not suit us, we are afraid it is going to last forever. So many people are afraid that their children will not grow up. We are told to feed them solids with a spoon at three weeks of age, lest babies will never learn to eat solids, let alone with a spoon. We are told to toilet train them when they are one year old or they will never quit wearing diapers. We are told to begin to discipline them at one month, otherwise they will never listen to us. We are told that children must always sleep in their own bed or they will always want to sleep with us. It is commonly believed that babies need to be weaned by the mother. And yet when weaning is left totally up to the child, it happens in a natural, healthy, and relaxed way. At the time the child no longer needs direct physical contact with his mother, then he weans himself from the breast. Likewise, parents' experiences indicate that the healthy child will wean himself in time from the parental bed.

Children should be given the credit that, provided the home environment is healthy, they will mature. As each need is fulfilled at each stage, they will move on and become more mature. (We did. Let's hope.)

It will be found that one phase passes into another, and another, and another. Please trust that in a sound surrounding the child will graduate from each stage of development.

I remember carrying my first infant throughout the day. Then she began to crawl and I no longer needed to hold her so frequently. I remember nursing her fifteen times a day. Now she is weaned and eats and drinks what we eat and drink. I used to take her with me wherever I went. And if I could not take her I stayed home. (Except if she was asleep.) She was happiest with this arrangement. Then when she was about three years old, she took another step toward independence-, she looked forward to the occasional babysitter to read her a bedtime story and put her to bed.

A child who has his needs fulfilled will become an independent, secure person. But independence cannot be forced upon someone.7 It takes time and growing at the individual's own pace. The more secure he is in the knowledge that he can always come back to his parents, the more independent he will become. We will only create problems if we regard his needing us at night as a problem which should be "cured."

Answer 8

Aww, look how little she is!!

warm them up for her!

I didn't start using room temp bottles until my daughter was 7-8 months old. Keep warming her bottles for a few more months. Don't force her to take a cold bottle. :(

Answer 9

Awww bless her!

I started my youngest around 6 months doing room temp and then cooler bottles! This is very new to them but she will get the hang of it. Don't give up!