Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Infant feeding

Get advice and support with infant feeding from other users here.

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

3 replies

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.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread