8 month old won't sit still for feeds

[Hamnvik]

This is going to sound ridiculous but does anyone else have problems getting their baby to stay still and drink their milk? Ever since Ds learnt to roll it has got harder and harder to keep him still. Now he is cruising I am finding it impossible to get him to take a bottle, he just wriggles away!
I have tried introducing milk in a sippy cup but he doesn't drink much that way. Also offering him a toy to hold while drinking but even that has stopped working. What else can I do?

Ha ha! I had exactly the same problem with my daughter, who is now one. She was wriggly from 2 months - so much so that I had to express and give her a bottle for four months because it was too embarrassing chasing her mouth with my boob! (I'm not a bf fanatic btw, but she has multiple allergies so hadn't much choice.) even now she is so easily distracted and busy that she will only take a bottle from me and it has to be the perfect temperature, we have to be in a darkened quiet room, and she has to be lying flat on her back, rather than being cradled. Needless to say, she goes milkless at nursery and when anyone else is looking after her. But at least we have found one way to get her to have enough most of the time. Maybe try different ways of feeding him - in car seat/buggy/in the dark/lying flat? Failing that, how about dream feeding him - just let him go to sleep and then lift him out and see if he will take it when asleep? Suppose that'll only work if he naps a lot... Good luck!

Thank you I'm glad I'm not the only one. I feel like it must look ridiculous to anyone else chasing him with a bottle!
Funnily enough the only time he will take a bottle is in his buggy, but I don't want to put him in there all the time or I feed him when he's asleep otherwise he would never have enough milk! I guess it will get easier when he has less milk.