Feeding help needed

[Grace9090]

Hello everyone,

I have a 15 day old daughter. Breastfeeding did not work for us and she is formula fed.

DD was born by c section and has struggled with congestion since birth. We are using saline drops which seem to help slightly.

In hospital we gave her the Aptamil ready made bottles which she gets on really well with. She drinks these well and it’s a relaxed feed.

We have tried both the Mam and Tommee Tippee bottles with her and she seems to struggle to feed from them - often only take 10-20ml whereas she can easily get through a bottle and a half of the ready made.

On the advice of the HV we have ordered the next teats up for her bottles so will trial these.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? I wish I could buy bottles which are the same as the Aptamil as these work so well but we can’t afford to keep giving them to her.

I would try and stick to one bottle brand and not give the ready made bottles stick the milk in a normal baby bottle and just keep trying to feed as often as pos I know it's hard but she will get there in the end just takes time

Are the teats on the ready-made bottles like the nuk teats?

Can you keep some of the ready made bottles and just transfer the formula into them?

My DC struggled with congestion and we found Dr Brown bottles to be best

Thank you everyone for your replies.

we did try just sticking to one bottle - the Tommee Tippee ones - but she was often only taking 10ml and then giving up. As she is so little I got spooked about her getting dehydrated - first time mum worries!

My DP had thought about the Nuk bottles - they’d be our next try.

If we could sterilise the ready made bottles we would but not sure if that is possible.

We have tried her this evening with the Mam 2 teat as suggested by the HV - she was able to drink well but is now quite hiccup-y so worried it was too fast for her.

I wouldn't worry about hiccups as long as baby is drinking and is happy I would keep going with the mam 2 teats have u tried the Tommie tippee vary flow teats? U can't refill the pre-made bottles I'm a mum of 5 and have a 9 week old DS I tend to find girls can be lazy with feeding my 3 girls defo lazy....

Just out of interest, why can't you re use the pre made bottles with fresh formula if they are washed and sterilised?

You could wash them and then cold sterilise them but I wouldn't put the in a steam one as they would melt

We had this with DD OP, I could've written your post. C section, congestion etc.

We found the cheap standard Tesco bottles have a nearly identical teat to the ready made. She had those and was absolutely fine.

Give these a try. They're really cheap too. We did the cold water steriliser with a Milton tab and these sufficed until she dropped bottles at 14 months. You can get different flows too in the baby section.

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Thank you for your reply. Sorry your daughter went through this, it’s made me feel a lot less alone though.

We have tried a variflow test today but DD has since been grunting and arching her back despite lots of winding and paced feeding. Will have a look at the Tesco bottles.