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Teats - recommendations please

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Needsleeeeepsendheeeelp · 20/01/2021 13:35

After recommendations for teats to try with bottle fed baby, please.

DD is 12wks and exclusively FF. We've had difficulty feeding/settling since birth. She's on Neocate for CMPA, with Gaviscon for silent reflux. We are using Tommy Tippee bottles with Closer to Nature teats. She was on the 0m+ and/or Vari flow teats (a mixture) and when we moved onto prescription milk + gaviscon we found that she fed for so long she was falling asleep on the bottle and not taking much volume at all, so we moved her to size 2 (3m+), but she now dribbles milk and her intake is still iffy. She is gaining weight, so is taking enough volume over the day, but feeding is erratic and therefore a bit stressful and the advice from feeding specialist is that she should be taking c.6 bottles a day by now - she's still on 8 because she's not taking enough when she is feeding.

Suggestion has been made by feeding specialist to try different teats, but they are unable to make any recommendations themselves. Obviously, the market is huge so hard to know what to try (or whether to stick with what we're doing)!

What teats have other mums used with success for fussy/refluxy babies on prescription (so thicker than commercial) milk? Thanks!

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Vicky1989x · 20/01/2021 14:24

I use Nuk bottles which is what I started with but I’ve tried every single brand going but always went back to Nuk!

Mam were also good but my DD preferred the shape of the Nuk teat.

Tommee Tippee were awful for my DD, the teat was way to big for her and it would take her over an hour to drink 1oz!

Needsleeeeepsendheeeelp · 20/01/2021 20:34

Thank you @Vicky1989x

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Thatwentbadly · 20/01/2021 21:50

Mam or nuk. Tommy tippee ones are notoriously bad.

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Thatwentbadly · 20/01/2021 21:51

Btw it’s absolutely fine for her to behaving 8 bottles a day. If she was breast feeding she would be having at least 8 and probably many more feeds a day.

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