Monday, January 25, 2010
bottles?
Now that I have gone back to teaching ballet in the evenings, Joe keeps Laine for the hours that I am gone and so (obviously) has to feed her with a bottle. Most of the time there is enough milk that I have pumped, but sometimes we add a little formula (our fridge broke and we had to dump some of the milk I had stored up... bummer). She seems to be ok with the formula, but HATES eating from a bottle. Now that she has breastfeeding down, she seems to have developed quite an opinion about it. I'm hoping that maybe changing the type of bottle we use will help... right now we just use the Medela ones that go with the pump. I know Dr. Brown bottles were mentioned before... anyone else have any suggestions? I'm hoping for something that will help her be able to regulate how much she gets and be a little bit more like what she's used to (ie. me haha).
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The Avent bottles have worked well for us. They are wide mouthed and the nipple is shaped more like a breast. Just make sure you get the Level 1 slow flow nipples. They are also easier to clean and dry because they are wider. Hadley did not like the Medela bottles either.
ReplyDelete--Amanda
Molly likes the playtex drop in bottles. extra bonus that you don't have to wash bottles. and liners aren't really expensive at all
ReplyDeleteWe use Dr. Brown, but he has pretty much always been on a bottle. The reason I love them is because they help so much with his gas.I know they make a wide neck version, but I believe they are more expensive. As for a self regulating nipple...I don't think they exsist, but the smaller the hole the less she will be able to pull out. In fact we are still using size one, and he is almost three months old.
ReplyDeleteBut I was reading somewhere about a bottle that uses a nipple that is flat, I realize that it isn't shaped like a nipple at all, but for the woman that was talking about it, she said it was the only nipple her baby would take. Also something else to consider, now that Laine knows how to breast feed, I don't think nipple confusion should be a problem...Now if you guys could only suggest a paci that works ;)My little guy has found his hands, and as cute as it is when he is sucking his thumb, it isn't a habit we want to encourage. Maybe he will just decide he doesn't want either his thumb or a paci and it will be one less bad habbit to break!
Mel
NUK pacifiers have worked best for us. Hadley found her hands early, and we also want to discourage the finger/thumb sucking. My sister sucked her thumb when she was a toddler and the orthodontal work she needed once she got older was atrocious. Hadley will not take a pacifier with me most of the time because she knows it is not the "real thing". But, she will take it with Tom.
ReplyDelete--Amanda
Laine LOOOOVES her pacifier. The Nuk ones seem to stay in her mouth the best. I'm hoping to start weaning her off of it other than nap and bedtime, but for mow it's worth it when it works to keep the peace!
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