Until what age do you hold your baby/toddler when they drink their milk?

[Anonymous]

I always held my kids until 12-16 months (age varied for each kid) to give them their bottles. My middle child was required to be on a prescription formula until 16 months and she would not drink it from a cup. They drank water from a straw cup for meals since they were 6 months but still liked their formula or milk in a bottle.

[Anonymous]

If you are at home with her then as long as you want. If she is an any type of group care then they are most likely moving onto a cup by one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as you want. Keep going.

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If it works for you both keep holding her. If not, then you need to switch it up.
At 13 mos she needs to be transitioning to a cup.

Does she sit in a highchair and drink water our of a cup? Or never sits up and drinks at the same time?

Thank you (and everyone else) for your responses. She drinks water from a cup (high chair, sitting on the floor, standing) and holds her bottle when I hold her but won’t drink from it if I don’t hold her. I think she hasn’t figured out that it needs to be tipped up like a cup. I am trying to figure out how to transition to a cup for milk (I’ve tried a number of times but she will only take it for water), and whether she should first learn to take the bottle without being held.

[Anonymous]

Use the ezpz cup. My now 9 month old has been drinking his own bottle for awhile now, we just prop him up in the bjorn bouncer (so it doesn't bounce).