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how do you know?

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How do you know when it's time to change bottle nipple size? DD will be 7 weeks tomorrow and is currently using the slow flow with one hole of the avent bottles. She is drinking 4 oz but I was thinking today she may need to start soon with 4.5 oz. The nipple with 2 holes comes on the 9 oz bottles which I will need when we bump up her feeding. The packaging on the2 hole nipples say one month plus but i didn't know if we should try the two holes or put the one hole nipples on the 9 oz bottles? TIA
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  • ClandestineXClandestineX member

    I breastfeed as well as bottle feed so what I plan on doing is changing the nipple size ONLY when my son starts getting frustrated when he is eating out of a bottle. I have notice that even on the slowest flow nipples for Doctor Brown's, he is starting to get frustrated at breastfeeding because there isn't a constant drip.

    I would try it out if you want, but if she starts choking or gulping really fast, then you know it isn't time yet.

     
     
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  • huskies09huskies09
    My son is 7 weeks old and we just changed him to the level 2 nipple on the Dr Brown bottles. He takes 4-6 oz a feeding. He had begun to take longer and longer to feed (sometimes up to an hour!) and even falling asleep before the bottle was done. After the switch he takes 15 min to finish the bottle. Hope that helps!
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  • guilletskichukguilletskichuk member
    We have the same bottles. A few weeks ago we purchased the 1 plus nipples for the 4 oz. bottles because LO wasn't eating more than 4 oz. each feeding but we figured we were supposed to go up to a faster flowing nipple since he was more than a month old. We tried them but didn't like them. The flow was too fast. LO would lose formula all down his chin and neck. We recently purchased the 9 oz. bottles because LO is ready to eat more at each feeding but we were bummed that they have the faster flowing nipples. I'm sure we'll be good to start using them soon though. LO hasn't shown that he's frustrated eating from the slow flow ones. But he no longer leaks formula at all when he feeds so I figure we still have a good thing going on.
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