Probably a stupid question about bottles....

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I have just opened up a box of tommee tippee closer to nature bottles and a box of Avent ones and none of them have plastic disks that stop milk getting to the teat until you want to use the bottle. Now, my oldest DC are 17 yrs old dts and DD3 is 11, and I'm pretty certain bottles I used for them had these pesky disc things. I am currently 38+5 weeks pregnant. Am I suffering from pregnancy brain? Did these discs exist? Do they still? Do I need them to help keep milk sterile/ prevent leakage?

Please help

they did exist but now the advice is to make the milk up as you need it not to make it in advance and store it, so I assume that why you dont get them anymore

Have a look here for advice on making up bottles. I know the advice changed between having my two DCs

Thank you for the replies

The lids of the bottles seal against the top of the teat and will prevent leaks so there is no need for the disks. You can buy disks for the avent bottles to turn them into storage jars for food.

I bought some bottles the other day which had the disks in, I wondered what they were for. They were the long thin kind rather than the shorter fatter ones, but they were tommee tippee.