Anti colic bottles

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Hi all,

DS is four weeks... We started breast feeding but were unable to maintain this, therefore transitioned to formula at week two. Initially we used Tommy tippee bottles but found DS struggled with wind massively. Based on Amazon reviews we decided to give the NUK anti-colic bottles a go and have found an improvement in terms of trapped wind and burping etc, but the downside is that feeds are taking hours. The last feed took two hours to give him 4oz... Is this normal?

I'm just really unsure with forumla feeding... How long should it take/how much should he be taking etc etc.

Any advice greatly appreciated, thanks in advance mums

Also interested in any replies to this - we've been using tommee tippee and are also having a very windy baby so have been considering switching to an anti colic bottle. Dr brown's or Mam have been recommended by the HV although sound they are all much of a muchness. Feeds currently taking about 20 to 30 minutes.

Also - should I be giving feeds at a certain time? We've just been making up and offering food every four hours (quite regimentally) but obviously he's not always hungry/awake at those times. Not sure whether to wake him to ensure he's fed every four hours or to follow his lead?

We used Dr Brown bottles and they did the trick.

We also had to wake our LO often to feed her. We were so tired that we had to use an alarm- she was such a sleeper I'm not sure she would have woken to feed otherwise!

no help with the bottle question sorry but my sister’s baby is a little older and her health visitor told her to never wake a sleeping baby! she said as long as a baby is feeding regularly in the day and not losing weight then it’s best just to leave them. my niece has a bottle around 11 then sleeps until about 6 and she’s never lost weight and has gained perfectly. not ideal for everyone but maybe worth a try if you have a sleepy baby.

Tommee tippee do anti colic bottles too. We use those. The Doctor Browns ones leak.

I highly recommend Mam bottles

MAM bottles are really good. I've found that the newer Dr Brown bottles tend to leak