DS just turned six months and within the next month or so will be going off to nursery. I plan to send bottles of EBM and feed him at home from me as much as possible. We've also started BLW.
From about 3 weeks old I was giving him one bottle of EBM a day, always using the Medela bottle and teat that came with the Swing pump. Then as he needed more, I was using the teat and bottle collar from the Medela directly on an Axifeed 7oz collection bottle.
Now 7oz doesn't seem to be enough, so I tried getting a Tommee Tippee Nipper Gripper bottle so he could hold it himself. However, the wide neck teat seems to be a problem, he does a lot of coughing and spluttering, gets very irrtable and windy when we use it.
The Medela teat is standard size and I think medium flow, but was thinking we needed something else because he's always collapsing the teat with sucking so hard. Thus the Tommee Tippee but it doesn't seem to be right either!
So what do I need to get for him? Talk to me about fast vs slow flow, standard vs wide neck please!
I do have a cup for him but he really struggles with it, barely gets anything, and I'm not confident of getting him taking big feeds from a cup with only a month to go.