What do you do when teat size 3 is not fast enough?

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My DS is 8 months old. Size 3 teats are just not fast enough, he ends up just playing with it or biting it about half way through his bottle but will drink it if I squeeze the milk into his mouth.

He's either very lazy or gets bored with his bottle because it doesn't come out fast enough. I feel he is too young to be moved onto a beaker so is there any faster flowing teats out there?

I'd try a beaker.
DS had problems with bottles (not a flow thing) and his paediatrician suggested trying a beaker or just using an egg cup for him to sip from - he was around the same age.

I guess I could. He downs his water which is in a beaker so at least he has experience of one!

Thanks, I've just never known of or seen a child under 1 drink milk from anything else other than a bottle.

DD went onto beakers well before one. She had water from a beaker from 6 months so it just seemed like the right thing to do to move her onto a beaker for milk too. A free flow beaker would probably be best for a fast drinker.

Avent do variflow teats which are pretty fast as it's a slit rather than a hole. Might be worth a try if you don't want to use a beaker yet.

Avent do 4 teats. Vary flow ones are good too, but better with thicker liquids.

When size 3 was too slow, I just started using size 4 teats. Do they still make them (my 'baby' is almost 6 now so a bit out of touch )

Am genuinely confused how a size 3 can be too slow. My ds 12 mo still uses newborn/slow flow on most of his bottles.
Could your ds just be teething or not that fussed? When my ds was cutting his first teeth, he chewed on the bottle a lot and didn't drink a lot, as it hurt to suck.
If you are squeezing the milk into his mouth he doesn't have a choice but to swallow it really?

my 7 month old gets v frustrated with size 3 teats, she has size 4 and vari flow.

You can always put an extra hole in your current teats. As far as I could tell size 1 had 1 hole, size 2 had 2 holes etc.

Ah, I use Tommee Tippee... that may be where I am going wrong :o

Lainey... all babies are different, obviously your DC is quite content with size 1's. Mine on the other hand is most certainly not content with his. And when I squeeze it into his mouth, if he doesn't want any more, he simply spits it out. Thats when I stop. I don't force my child to drink milk if he doesn't want to.

Are the Avent ones age specific as well as sized? Like, TT's size 3 are 6m+? So are size 4 say, 9m or 12m+?

Mam do X teats - or we just pushed the tip of a knife in some of our older teats to make the hole bigger.... worked fine for us!

we had to do this early on as DD had reflux so had either gaviscon/comfortmilk/or prescribed thickened milk from quite early on!

fairimum, thank you! I might give it a go with the knife tomorrow! If I ruin it, I'll just go and have a look at other teats and bottles :)

Tommee Tippee do variflow teats, I used to use them with DD.

Sterilise a needle and make another hole or make the existing one bigger?

I'm evidently not that clued up with teats! So, variflow is..? Can they be faster flowing than size 3's?

With a cross in the end instead of a hole. The harder the baby sucks, the quicker the milk comes out. .

Same price as the usual teats, I used to buy them from boots or asda so I should imagine they would be widely available.