When did your LO's make the change from slow to medium flow nipples?

MyShellyBelly · July 2011

Hello!

We are currently using 6.0 oz. bottles, however, yesterday I purchased 9.0 oz. bottles because I have a feeling our LO's will be graduating up to 7.0 oz. per feeding very soon (they will be 3 months on August 1st and are currently at 6.0 oz. pumped breastmilk and supplemented formula each).

Anywho, this got me thinking this morning about when (and if) we should also switch to the medium flow nipples. When did your LO's switch, if they switched at all?

Thanks!

cara-n-steve · July 2011

I think I switched to the medium nipple around 3.5 months. It was taking them forever to eat! They had no problems transitioning to the next size.

MrsRyan61804 · July 2011

I never had a problem with how long it took Jack to drink a bottle. He was always really good about sucking it down. So we never changed nipple sizes, and I was happy about this because it saved us the money. But when we introduced sippy cups I think it was harder for him because it came out so fast, and when he sucked he would choke on it and spit it out. I think had we gone to a faster nipple flow he would have been more prepared for the fast flow of sippies.

This doesn't answer your question but gives you something to think about in the future.

jds0521 · July 2011

cara-n-steve:
I think I switched to the medium nipple around 3.5 months. It was taking them forever to eat! They had no problems transitioning to the next size.

Ditto. And OMG SEVEN oz per feeding?!?!? DD will barely eat 5 oz. We haven't increased her amount since she was about 5 or 6 months & she won't take anymore than 5oz per feeding, about 25 oz per day, so that's great for the twins! I can't wait till she's off formula b/c she acts like she hates it.

Temp893722312503334 · July 2011

We switched to Dr. Brown size two around 3 months and just switched to size 3 about 2 weeks ago.

emmyloustu · July 2011

Never. She hated faster flow nipples so we stuck with slow flow until she was finished with bottles at13mo.

ladychicago · July 2011

I want to say we were at level 2 by 3 months and level 3 by 5 months? But we never initiated it. She just all of a sudden would get pissed while taking bottles and cry cry cry. So that is when we moved her up. It always solved her bottle temper tantrums.

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