Best bottles to use for EBM for a BF baby?

[PinkTulips]

eeek, have just tried ds2 on some ebm and he couldn't drink from the bottle at all!

dp tried him on it so wasn't that i was holding him. we used the bottles they gave me going home from scbu, little glass bottles with a NUK teat attached which, tbf on him, is a weird shape.

he (grudgingly) drank ebm from them in SCBU so i had sort of presumed he'd be fine with them [do'h emoticon]

have been building up a supply for emergancies but also as dp and i would like to go out for an evening soon and leave my mother to feed him but he obviously needs to be happy taking EBM from a bottle first.

i used avent with dd but she was never too keen and the lindam anti colic one ds1 would take when he refused the avent is very fiddly and would fluster my mom no end.

so are tommee tippee closer to nature really better designed for BF babies or is it just nice packaging? really don't feel like spending a smal fortune on 20 types of bottle when they'll only be used very occasionally!

If you still have the advent try it with the MAM ULTIvent teat, i have had no problems using this teat when others have failed.

The C2N i found not brill, some babies are able to compress the teat to stop milk getting thru.

Or try a cheap bottle from the chemist with a silicon teat.

don't have them anymore, gave the lot away but i'll see can i find any cheap on ebay and check out that teat.

although tbh, he'd probably like a bottle he could stop the flow on! he hates my boob that has fast flow and chokes and cries (which is actually why i was trying to bottle feed today as i was engorged from him refusing that side since he's got a cough yesterday)

thanks matnanplus

Have you tried lying down and having him on top of you to feed from the 'fast flow' boob

yep, usually helps a little (although i get soaked ) but with this cough he's being paticularily difficult and chokey

he aspirated on my blood during the birth and ended up with pneumonia in scbu so he reacts quite badly when he feels like he's getting liquid down his throat

he's managed a little bit off that boob this morning so i'm not as sore and i ordered a couple of cheap C2N bottles on ebay yesterday which have ben shipped already. i looked for the mam ultivent but the only seller on ebay doesn't ship to ireland and i definitely haven't seen them in the shops around here

Oh well, i know Mothercare, Babies r Us, John Lewis, Tesco and Boots stock MAM in UK.

I have an ex-premmie DD and she's had to be given some formula top-ups, the SCBU nurse told me that the MAM teats are the best so i got one of those bottles and i didn't have a single problem feeding her from the bottle. She was never fussy at the breast while having the top-ups.

we use the breastflow bottles for george, the seem to work well

I did the whole trying different bottles thing with ds and failed. With dd I just bought one bottle (which was a TT one) and offered every day until she got it. TBH I think that the different bottles thing is just a faff and the only reason one works where others failed is that by then they've been offered a bottle so many bloody times they finally get it! Took a few weeks of offering every day, often twice and never letting her get angry, the instant she got fed up messing with a bottle I just bf her then she started taking an oz or so before getting fed up and one day glugged 5 oz like a pro.

A SCBU nurse told me that the best bet was the cheapest nastiest pound shop teat you could find in latex ie brown old fashioned one. Round here the brand is 'Little WOnders' but may be different in your local emporium. They are very very soft which is the key. I then moved onto NUK silicon though, as I thought they were easier to clean.

I used TT closer to nature but she took the 1st bottle I tried so may have just been lucky. They're supposedly big so LO has to get a big mouthful and doesn't end up confused about nipple/bottle

matnanplus - sadly only have tescos within a reasonable distance and even that is over 45 mins away, will have a look on friday if i venture over there for my shopping

thanks everyone else too for the advice, will try the repeatedly offering like you suggested indith, and beehivebaby, soft rubber teats makes sense doesn't it... will mooch into the local discount shop and see what utterly hideous teats they have on offer

thanks all

chulita... that sounds promising about the c2n.... it's the size of the bottle that seems to confuse him, he knows theres milk in there but has no idea that he has to close his mouth around the teat to get it so just wails with his mouth wide open.

Pink - did bottle battle with DS1 and tried most bottles under the sun. He ended up using the avent ones in the end - but a fast flow teat (more like my vicious let down which it turned out he quite liked). If you're just going out for the evening, leave the bottle with your mum (or a cup so she can cup feed him if need be) - if he is hungry enough he'll take it and if he doesnt take it, he'll just go to sleep and wake up and feed when you get home (which is what DS1 did until we finally got him to take bottles at 6 months). Have heard good things about the Mam ultivent bottles but they're enormous things!

thanks dinky.... true about the 'he'll feed if he's hungry enough', the only reason he took the bottles in scbu was becasue he was starved and i wasn't there, they just waited him out and he got it eventually. he also refused the dummies from me but took them from nurses when i was out... contrary sod

Hi PT! Ds3 was a bottle refuser and we found the playtex disposable bottles with naturalLatch latex teat was the only one he would take. Trouble is, no-one in Ireland seems to stock them any more and you get charged a fortune to have them shipped from the UK. We are still using ours for ds4 or you could have had them.
I get mine from teebop.com, who interestingly enough charge less to ship from the US than the UK companies do!
What really helped was that dh sent me to Powerscourt Springs for the day and ds3 had no choice but to take the bottles!