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Best bottles for avoiding nipple confusion?

DuckDuckGoose123DuckDuckGoose123 member
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Hi ladies,

I should be bringing my preemie home from the hospital next week (she'll be 35 weeks), and though I've been nursing her 3x a day while she gets extra breastmilk through an NG tube, she gets the rest of her feedings by bottle and will have to continue to get a lot of her milk by bottle til she's a stronger breastfeeder.  I'm looking for bottles that will make it easier for her to transition from bottle to breast.  Any suggestions?  I keep reading mixed reviews of Tommee Tippee and Dr. Brown bottles, so I wasn't sure whether either of those were best, or something else.

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Re: Best bottles for avoiding nipple confusion?

  • nattnnattn member
    I was told drop ins are the best for avoiding nipple confusion. I don't know if that's true or not, but my cousin who is a pedi nurse said the same thing.
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  • AvieeAviee
    I used the nuk brand since 1 week old, but it probably also helped that I was nursing DD with the aid of a nipple shield for latch.  Now she'll take both my nipple and a bottle no problem.
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  • Jennifer RuthJennifer Ruth member
    We have only used Dr. Browns wide neck bottles.  You have to look for them or special order them...the regular Dr. Browns is not wide neck.
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  • SanHawaii08SanHawaii08 member

    my LO got a regular dr brown's bottle in the NICU, and we've used them since.  i tried a tommee tippee, but it didn't work as well for him - but maybe he just got used to the dr browns?  since what we had was working, i didn't think to try something different until he was maybe 4 mo old.

    at the hospital, he'd bf, then get the rest through the ng tube.  to get him out of the hospital faster, we decided to switch to all bottle-feeding, since it was easier for him and thus we could prove he could eat what he needed, when he needed, w/o the ng tube.  once we got home, we still mostly bottle-fed, but i would try to bf 1-3x a day.  eventually, he got strong enough to bf 100% of the time.  however, knowing i eventually had to return to work, i still made sure we gave him a bottle at least once every few days, so he wouldn't forget.  now, he nurses when i'm at home, gets bottles when i'm at work, no issues.  GL!

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  • DuckDuckGoose123DuckDuckGoose123 member
    Thanks, ladies!
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  • Sandy0904Sandy0904
    We tried a few different bottles including Dr Browns, Breastflow and Avent but finally found the Playtex drop ins and those are the ones that worked with DS.  Going to start off with the Playtex drop ins again with this next baby and hope it works.
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    We use Tommee Tippee and DS hasn't had any nipple confusion. Of course, he's probably only had about 8 bottles since he's been born...
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