When is it time to change teat?

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Dd is 8 weeks and I'm wondering if she needs faster teats. She can take forever ti finish a bottle and often falls asleep only to wake up hungry again.

How do you know they're ready?

You can always try it and see. If she starts gagging or spluttering then it is probably too fast and you can change back down.

What number teat are you on?

Midwives/health visitor suggested to my friend to start off on a 2 and skip 1 altogether.

We're on tommee tippee stage 1. It's just taken 55 mins to drink a 6oz bottle that she was definitely hungry for.

Would it help with wind it make it worse?
She is SO grunty and colicy I dint want to make it worse.

It might make it better actually.

With a smaller teat they need to suck harder to get the milk which can lead to them getting more air in their tummies.

I'd say it's worth a try?

Also it depends in which formula she's on because some are thicker than others so she may need the bigger teat earlier.

From what you said sounds like she may be ready for the next size.

DS is only 4 weeks but I have just bought the Tommee Tippee stage 2 teat for him as the stage 1 was clearly making him exhausted and not giving him enough food quickly enough (we use SMA). I also bought a Nuk teat on recommendation but that is definitely still too fast for him so I will keep that in reserve for later.

Well we tried them from yesterday afternoon and she is definitely drinking faster, without choking(!), and seems to be having a bit more.
I'm hoping she'll go from little and often to a average size bottle slightly less often! Would do wonders for my sanity knowing there was more than 1h between feeds!

I am using Tomme Tippee bottles and you can buy vari flow teats rather than number 1s for 0-3 months, you could try those-we bought them from the supermarket.

We're doing ok on them although she's done two massive projectile vomits but think that's due to over eating.
I've no idea how the vary flow work. Do you?