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Introducing ebm - which bottles for baby with slightly lazy latch used to speedy letdown?

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megonthemoon · 20/10/2010 15:21

DD is 3 1/2 weeks old. I want to introduce ebm in a bottle some time in the next couple of weeks for the occasional feed so I know she will take one. I have a speedy, fairly forceful letdown and sometimes DD can be quite lazy about her latch as she can get milk very easily even just with a small suck of my nipple rather than actually having to work hard. So I do often relatch her to try and avoid lazy habits (none of that in my house, young lady!) :)

So I'm wondering about which bottle is best to use - worried about her getting even lazier at the breast if she learns to feed from an easy teat, but equally wondering if something like breastflow bottles, which I hear are designed to try and protect the latch, but consequently often quite slow flow, would actually irritate her and cause her to reject the bottle because I imagine flow rate would be much slower than she's used to.

Any advice? Am I overthinking this?

OP posts:
Flojo1979 · 20/10/2010 18:05

Try breastflow and see, you'll soon know if its not for her!

megonthemoon · 20/10/2010 18:40

I am overthinking this, aren't I? :o

OP posts:
chillichill · 21/10/2010 08:57

my dd is lazy too! I got the new medela calma. It's very pricey at 11.99 and only sold at mothercare but its really good. tried it myself when I bought it and no milk comes if baby just sucks, has to stimulate nipple like bfeeding to get it going. dd was not a fan which just goes to show how lazy she is but after s few tries she got it.

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