Medela Bottles

Thread: "Baby refusing bottle. Any tips?"

My totally formula fed baby became a bottle snob around the 3 month mark. Went right off the cheap store brand bottles and sometimes had a big protest about the expensive Mam and Medela ones too. Some of it might have been flow speed related - we could have bought new teats to test - but instead we bought more Mam bottles as they had the best success rate and demoted the cheap ones to the back of the cupboard. When she got really upset, she might only drink lying down, or after a walk outside. We just tried to keep calm and offer different variations until we found something she would tolerate. Luckily this turned out to be a phase and it's been months since I've had to give a dinnertime bottle in the nearest park. It scared us at the time because she had essentially refused to breastfeed within days of being born and we didn't know what we'd do if bottles stopped too. But we kept trying different things and the phase has passed, for now at least.

Thread: "Best bottles for newborns?"

Dr. Browns is good. I just had to buy premee nipples because the number 1 was too fast. If it says slow flow, you would expect it to be slow. It is not. Also, the small bottles the hospital gives you are pretty good to start with. My hospital had medela bottles. I have like 10 small bottles and 5 bigger ones. When they are just born, you probably won't feel like washing very often. That's why I have so many small ones.

Thread: "Which baby bottles are great for my newborn? I’m so lost…"

If I had my time again, I would have gone pigeon and not medela (with the calma teats) as the flow was too fast.

Thread: "Which bottle did your EBF baby likes/d?"

Also a Phillips avent fam here! have also used the medela calma nipples on the medela bottles but they’re a little harder work

Thread: "Using breast milk with a bottle"

I go between breastfeeding and bottle w pumped milk. Have had no issues using/switching between Dr Browns (Options/Anti Colic) and we have a couple Phillip Avent plus some Medela Calma on the way lol! My babe is only 9 days tho sooo much younger. I have the Medela Freestyle Flex which I’ve have a really easy time with!! I was lazy in my research but my cousin was incredibly delivery so I took her recco. My babe feeds so great with all the above plus boobie!

Thread: "Bottle for breastfed baby"

My friend swears by the Medela bottles. I have the boon nursh & my babes loves them. I love that they are easy to clean & will grow with baby.

Thread: "Baby bottles recommendation for combo fed breastfeeding babies"

No, they’re still in production! You can pick them up from Boots, Amazon, Asda, etc. I loved the Calma teats because they fit on the medela pump bottles and it meant just taking one of those out of the fridge and popping a teat on lol. Now she’s on formula, we switched to the MAM bottles. I’ve never had issues with water getting in through the bottom though?

Thread: "Baby bottles recommendation for combo fed breastfeeding babies"

Medela calma use to be the best for bottle feeding breastfeed babies - one size teet and requires the same sucking mechanism but I'm pretty sure they've been discontinued. If you are heating up frozen breast milk it is easier to warm up the milk bag and then decant to a bottle. Although honestly it makes your life easier if you get them use to colder milk as soon as you can

Thread: "What brand baby bottle worked best for you?"

First kid used Avent since birth, second kid was breastfed but took the Medela bottle (with breast milk) when needed, then switched to nuk bottles at around 18m when we stopped breastfeeding but honestly at this point he would take just about any kind of bottle.

Thread: "What bottles are y’all using?"

When my now-toddler was younger and still using bottles, she was pretty easygoing in general and we played with a variety of bottles/nipples. She was a preemie so we triple fed and supplemented in the beginning. I was terrified of nipple confusion and did a lot of research on shape and flow rate. Babies are not stupid - they don’t get confused; they just have preferences. In the beginning we used Avent bottles paired with a size 0 nipple. She hated the Lansinoh bottles with the “slow” flow (which I later found out was actually a size 2 if you look at the tiny print; the real sloowwww flow that works with a Lansinoh bottle is Pigeon SS, from the Japanese company that has the same parent company as Lansinoh) because she was used to sucking very hard to get milk after she transitioned to 90% nursing and would choke on a faster flow. She also hated the Medela “slow flow” and the disposable nipples you get with ready to dead formula for the same reason - flow rate was too fast. She was also fine with the Dr. Brown narrow base nipple in a size 0 because the flow rates were comparable to nursing from the breast directly. As she got older she accepted nipples of all shapes as long as the flow rate matched what she got with the breast. We just grabbed whatever was clean and dry. We didn’t transition to size 1 nipples until close to 8 months, then she self-weaned off the bottle directly to a 360 cup so we never used any size 2 nipples 😅 What you want to watch for us that the baby is latching into the bottle nipple correctly (lips flanged out like fish lips, deep latch - as much of the nipple in mouth as possible). It’s easy to get a lazy latch because bottle nipples will squirt milk with any pressure and you don’t want baby to get used to the idea that they can just bite and milk will flow.