Why won't my 9 month old take a bottle?

Maybe you could try giving him a sippy cup. He may be bored with the bottle and trying something new may help. The sippy cups I used when I first start my daughter on them were the Nuby brand. They were a good transition cup. Good luck!

I don't have a ton to add because everyone else said it - but just go straight to the sippy cup! My second daughter never, every took a bottle. Refused right from the moment of birth (good thing I had planned on also nursing her!). So at about 7 months, we gave up on the bottle attempts and went straight into sippy cups. It took a while to get her used to them but in the end it worked. Best of luck to you!

WOW i would have to say you are blessed lol .....I would offer him a leak proof cup, it sure sounds like he is ready! I have a one year old that loves those water bottles.....I wish you little man all the best and good luck to a early start! Stacy

Frankly, I think you're lucky that your son is ready to give up his bottle already. The next best thing to get him to take the recommended ounces of formula/milk is to put it in a sippy cup. He is probably old enough to hold one. I wouldn't cut back on the solid food though. If that's what he's hungry for, then it's more important that he gets his daily recommended amount of calories.

Have you tried the soft top sippy cups? Also, my neice is almost 8 months old and loves to drink from a straw! You may want to give this a try. Good luck!

My son was that way around 8 months.It worried me at first,but he was growing fine and on cue with his age group.Eventually he came around and adjusted.I wouldn't worry a bit.Your pediatrician would agree that children go through so many stages.In a month or so he may decide that the solids aren't for him and refuses everything except the bottle.Kids are funny that way.Hope I was of some help!!

9 months? Well he only has 3 more months to go until a year old. I would try a cup with him. He might take to it better then a bottle. It wouldn't hurt, he is almost a year old as it is and most pediatricians will tell you to not use a bottle after a year. My son is 15 months and wont use a cup right now. He still wants his bottles. So I wish my son would refuse his bottles. :)

Go with the sippy cup, my daughter has had one for months now (she's 10 months old now) & she loves it, it helps her teething too coz she can gnaw on the rubber sipper part! You can put in juice, formula, water, whatever you like & like my daughter, she took to it really easily. I haven't had any experience like yours coz my daughter loves her bottles & her food but i make sure she has a bottle first thing in the morning followed by breakfast, then she has a bottle near 10, lunch when she gets hungry (usually 12:30 or so), a bottle around 3 & then she has dinner! I can usually squeeze in most of a bottle around 7:30pm & that fills her up to go to bed around 8:30! That routine has worked well for me for about 4 1/2 months now, maybe you could try something like that? Good luck!

You could try to change the type of nipple he is probably started teething and the kind of nipple you use my feet different to him now.

Have you tried a different shape of bottle, maybe the ones with the hole in the middle? Or maybe just a different type of nipple would do the trick? I never experienced this type of problem with my son, but those are some suggestions. Good luck!