Dr Browns bottles

[BeckenhamMum]

Hi everyone

My DD is 9 months and been using Dr Browns bottles since she was a few months old. They worked fantastically on her colic.

However she is still on the level 2 teats. Level 3 are meant to be for 6 months + but if you compare them to level 2 the milk really gushes out, whereas the level 2 teats drip.

I have tried moving her up a teat size a few times but she doesn't really get on with them. She doesn't choke like she used to when she was younger, but gulping down the milk so much more quickly doesn't seem to agree with her. Sometimes she is sick and other times she just seems very umcomfortable at having drunk her milk so much faster. However it does take her a while to drink a bottle on the level 2 teats and I am wondering if all that sucking is good for her or if she should just get used to the faster teats. She has her water from a beaker.

Anyone else have this problem?

I used a different bottle with my children but had the same sort of problem, in that that the teats relevant for their age made them choke and gave them wind even when older.

By the time they were happy taking the next size teat, it was fairly academic tbh, as by then they were drinking milk with breakfast and dinner only from a sucky cup and having just a bottle at bedtime only. Which was dropped itself by 12 months as well, once they were drinking lots of milk with dinner.

I personally wouldn't worry about it. As long as they're getting the milk they need, it doesn't matter if the milk comes out slower. Some people say it's bad for teeth don't they, I suppose? But before you know it they'll only be on sucky cups anyway. My children's teeth are all fine btw.

Thanks for your reply, she has just started using a beaker for her water. At what age did you give yours milk in a beaker?

As soon as they sipped well from a sucky cup. I warmed it first. Served it with breakfast and dinner, so they'd get used to the concept over time.

They both looked at me suspiciously the first time or two but over time they got used to it.

Then I started to increase the milk at dinner and decrease amount in bottle at bedtime over many days, until I dropped bedtime bottle. I did this at 12 months approximately.

But lots of people give warm milk for years at bedtime with story. I just preferred to get mine off of bottles by 12 months ideally. I'm just mean and stubborn - me thinks