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Latex teats?!

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Loz2024 · 17/01/2025 15:02

My 3 m.o. breastfed baby is very fussy about the type of teat that she will take expressed milk from (my partner sometimes needs to feed her if I am out or she needs a bottle from other relative/minder if we need to go somewhere without her). She very reluctantly will take milk from a slow flow silicone teat (I should count my blessings for this I suppose 😂) but I can imagine that it takes a great deal of patience on the part of the bottle giver as she cries, tries to spit it out etc. Recently we discovered that she loves latex orthodontic style soothers, she previously had no interest in the silicone ones. My thinking is that if she likes the latex soothers so much then very possibly she will take milk from a latex slow flow teat equally as well! However it's next to impossible to find a slow flow latex orthodontic shaped teat, there seems to be nothing online. Nuk used to do a size S latex teat but noone seems to stock them anymore. Does anyone have any ideas ? Thank you.

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Noodlesnotstrudels · 17/01/2025 15:18

I have suspected that nuk have been affected by Brexit. When I had DD1, we used nuk and it was so easy to get all the different bottle sizes, teat flows etc. With DD2, it has been such an effort. Have you tried the latex M teat for 0-6m? DD2 found M a bit fast but with some slow paced feeding, you might be able to manually control the flow enough so she can use the latex teat.

Loz2024 · 17/01/2025 19:18

Thanks for suggestion. Yes I have that exact teat. Just got my partner to try using more of a paced feeding method but she had no interest. We thought it was because flow was too fast yesterday but now wondering if she doesn't actually like the material! Strange as she likes the nuk latex soothers but I guess the shape is slightly different. He instead had some success giving her the usual silicone slow flow mam teat although there is no way she took as much as she takes when breastfed. If only babies could talk!

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