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breastfed baby collapsing bottle nipples - help!

nsimoncavagensimoncavage
in January 2012 Moms

My son is 6 months old, we breastfeed at home and he has pumped BM during the day at daycare.  Recently, my daycare provider told me that he has been collapsing the nipples on his bottles when he is eating and asked me consider moving up to the next flow level nipple. Does anyone have any experience with this or advice to lend? Given that letdown takes a bit longer now, I am wondering if giving him a faster flowing bottle might interfere with his interest in nursing. 

 

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Re: breastfed baby collapsing bottle nipples - help!

  • aboynamedbarryaboynamedbarry member
    what kind of bottle are you using?
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  • aboynamedbarryaboynamedbarry member

    imagensimoncavage:
    Tommee Tippee

     

    Well, from what i know about bottles, those seem to be the best for breast feeding... and I don't have a similar problem, but I wonder if you just tried a different bottle? the playtex nurser? even go with the slow flow one... those particular ones are cheap too which is nice. nice that he has a good latch though ;)

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    Baby 2 EDD 7-18-14
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  • bigbearbigbear

    My DD does this, too

    The increased flow level isn't necessarily going to do the trick. We tried that and she still collapses nipples. I'd HIGHLY recommend Dr Brown's bottles! They have this extra tube that goes in that prevents the nipple from collapsing and give the baby even milk flow like from the boob. They also swallow hardly any air which reduced spitup and gas if your baby has an issue with it.

     

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  • VABride2008VABride2008 member
    Why can't she just pull the bottle out every few ounces and let the air back in?  That's what we do.  I didn't want him getting too use to a fast flow and then not want to nurse.
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  • allysonllambertallysonllambert member

    Are you using the anti-colic? If so, its not the baby its the stick thing inside. The little bubble on the bottom of the stick gets re-connected (?) and you have to pull it out and "pop" it. Then it works just fine.

    Its really annoying though and I dont like the idea of the caregiver sticking her fingers on something that then goes back in the milk that my baby drinks...They make an adapter so that you can turn anti-colic bottles into regular ones without the inner stick thing though.

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  • nsimoncavagensimoncavage
    Thanks for your comments and advice!  My son will only take Tommee Tippee (we have tried numerous other bottles), and are using the regular ones not the anti-colic.  I think I am going to try giving him a bottle myself (even though it pains me) to see the issue firsthand. 
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  • Jayhawk08Jayhawk08 member
    Have you considered switching to a sippee cup? Tommee Tippee makes a 4+ monthsipppee that has a silicon top. I am a SAHM, so we don't do bottles/sippee much but my little guy decided he wouldn't take a bottle so we tried that sippee a couple weeks ago and had success, maybe it would be different enough from nursing that he wouldn't have nursing issues since it's a different process, and you can avoid the faster flow bottle? Like I said, we don't do daycare or non-nursing feeds regularly so I can't speak to that aspect. Good luck :)
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  • meg_2006meg_2006 member
    If he will take a narrow neck, the Parent's Choice ones at Wal-Mart make nipples that are nearly impossible to collapse!  Like PPs, we also have to go up a flow size when LO collapses nipples.

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