if I don't want my son to drink out of a bottle?!

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He's 10 months old nearly, drinks really well out of a doidy or a spouty cup and is still bf so I never give him a bottle. He's not had one for ages as I stopped expressing a few months back now. However, my parents are constantly going on at me telling me that he needs to drink out of a bottle.

Surely the whole point is to get them to move away from bottles towards cups, which he drinks from brilliantly and has done for months!? They keep going on about it though and it's really annoying...

They are just being odd. It sounds like he is doing fantastically well.

No, YNBU! DS is now 18mo and has never drunk from a bottle - doidy and spouty cups are fine - and work!

Sounds to me like they want you to give up bf.

you could be right - I just don't get it. I've been under loads of pressure to stop from the word go. Probably why I'm still doing it!

I dunno, they're really great in so many ways but I do feel like they don't respect my opinions about anything. It's like they think I'm stupid and should do everything their way and I struggle to know how to handle it a lot of the time. I try to rise above it but it really bothers me.

Definitely not being unreasonable. BF to cup sounds much more sensible.

Ah well, at least it's not just me being odd then. Rise above.....

YANBU - do they perhaps feel they have missed out on giving him a bottle?
I have a feeling that my ILs maybe do because my ds rarely got a bottle of EBM as I was so rubbish at expressing, and then when it came to solids I did BLW so there was no spoon feeding him either.
Ignoring would probably be the way to go, but it's hard!!

Hmmm - I wonder if that's what it is. They were offering to take him away for the night when he was about a week old so that we could get some kip. Nice offer and all but there was no way I was letting my tiny baby go off without me and putting him on formula for the priviledge!

I'm sure they got to give him the odd bottle though, and they do sppon feed him now when they look after him.

Families eh!

I had the same offers for overnight too and turned them all down. DS is 19.5 months and I still haven't left him overnight!!

I've not left my ds either - still don't want to be parted from him

My dd never had a bottle either, went straight from the breast to the cup. I really liked that.

I WAS going to say, give him a glass then boom boom, but thats a bit pants.

I think you arelucky as my DS was just off of bottles and DD was born, thats it now, he demands a bottle of everything and there are many rows/arguments about it. I let him have a bottle of milk at night, and he is 3.5 but I wish he would stop.

YANBU

My DS has only ever had the odd bottle of EBM and now happily drinks from his sippy cup. Surely a bottle would be going backwards now?

Remember my MIL coming to stay when DS was about 6 wks old and saying brightly 'I could look after him while you and DH have a night out'. I gazed at her with eyes like piss-holes in the snow and told her that I would be passing out shortly after the baby had gone to sleep.

My mum has started making noises about trying to get this baby to take milk from a bottle when he or she arrives. I just said no in a very blunt kind of way. I'm not going down that route unless I have to. I'm just not organised enough for it

Agnes

ds went straight from bf to cup. Ds went onto bottle - compelete PITA!

Why woukd a child need to drink fro a bottle when they can easily manage a cup?
they are being weird and you are not being unreasonable.

I think (can't quite remember) that it says in one of the Annabel Karmel books that they should be off bottles by the time they are 12 months. It is a step backwards to go from a doidy/beaker to a bottle IMO.

UCM - My baby was presented with my niece's bedtime bottle as a gift - she was SIX and its the only way my sis could think of getting her off it so don't beat yourself up about 3 1/2.
DS1 went back to demanding bottles when ds2 appeared, I decided I have other things to stress about so now baby is 12m, neither has bottles during the day and both will do bedtime bottle cold turkey at the same time later this year.

Not unreasonable at all. Bottles after 12 months can contribute to tooth decay - tell' em that!
(Disclaimer: please don't panic if you are reading this with a LO who is still having the occaisonal bottle, it's not too bad as long as the bottle isn't full of cocacola and left with the LO indefiitely).

We're having a barrel of laughs (not) trying to get DS OFF the bottle so I don't see the point introducing one basically just for the hell of it!

my ds went from bf to cup and never had a bottle why do something that you don't need to. my in laws told me bf was unnatural and disgusting but I just stuck 2 fingers up. I think it might be a generational thing
ds 2 is nearly here and I will try to do the same agin

Ta for that FG.

My DS is 18mo and I have just managed to get him off a bottle (for milk only - used a cup during the day)!!

You have done brilliantly.

YANBU. I bf to cup with my younger children. A bottle isn't necessary.

my 10 month old baby has 7 teeth now and bf is getting a bit painful. Kinda keen to transfer to bottle/cup morning and evening but have tried half heartedly to give up and failed. He isn't keen to take the bottle, and although drinks from a cup isn't really having any of it....just not sure how to succeed with this one...bf is so easy, but i feel its time to stop now.... but still want him to get the milk he needs. Any advice??? also when everyone talks about cups, do they mean the bottles that have a safety flow top and a harder spout? just wanted to be sure, as i think this would be better to introduce than a bottle when has never had one.