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avent bottles and teats used with hungry baby/comfort milk. please help me!!

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Hello all,

a little background, my baby girl Isla is 6wks old this thurs, and was a big girl born at 10lbs 90z.

she was exclusively BF for 4 weeks but she was so hungry we topped her up with formula and Bmilk. now she is exclusively FF as she got lazy on my breast. she has been taking between 3-4oz 3-4hourly and has been sleeping well at nights and during the day on demand with this. This weekend however she has been taking 2 bottles within two hours so she has been having about 6+oz not at every feed though. she is picky, sometimes she will have 1oz, sometimes 2oz, here and there during the day. at night she usually takes the whole amount and will go down to sleep until the next feed which is great.

she was very very constipated once switched to FF exclusively so we tried the aptamil comfort formula (also due to her wind - supposed to be thicker formula to help with air), but she was then put on lacutlose by her dr so we have stopped using that and went back to stage 1 due to problems below.

I decided to try to use hungry baby milk on advice of friends and Health visitor. but after feeding her last night and wondering why she wasn't getting anything i realised the milk just does not come out of the teat at all. she must not be getting any of it.

i have been using avent bottles with size 1 teats and progressed to the size 2 thinking this would help but it doesn't come out still. i shake the bottle up well and warm them as directed because i am aware it can pool in a puddle at the bottom of the bottle.

i also am using dr browns bottles because she is quite a windy baby and this was advised to help with that problem. they supplied us with some Y shaped slit teats but when i tried these - they are way too fast for a 5 week old, she couldn't keep up with them and spat all her feed out.. well dribbled it out. so we stopped with them.

so it seems that i can't give the size 1 teat as its too thick, the size 2 same problem, have not tried size 3 but i know that this size with the dr browns bottles is too fast. so whats the in between answer to all my prayers girls???

i am at a loss of what to do.. does anybody else have a similar problem?? or advice..? should i attempt a size 3 teat? somebody suggested making the hole bigger myself in the teat but i am unsure if this is advisable really?

any advice would be really greatly received! i am a first time mum and in no routine and getting very down about this at the moment which seems silly..

thanks in advance!!! i hope it all makes sense to you more experienced girls!!
i am getting to the end of my tether with all the bottles and milks at the minute. i have tried numerous types of bottles.
 
I don't know anything about the thicker formulas, as I've never seen nor used them. I do know that avent has a nipple designed for thicker liquids. The hole is larger depending on how you have it positioned in baby's mouth. The only other thing I know to do is to possibly heat up a safety pin or something and poke it through the nipple hole to make it a little larger. I have never done this, but have had other people tell me that they have done it. Good luck
 
i used hungry baby (cow&gate) for jack and never noticed any difference in consistency :shrug:
 
I didnt realise the hungry baby formulas were actually thicker, I thought it was the comfort ones that were usually thick lol. Shows how much I know!

Anyways, if the formula is indeed thicker than Avent do a variflow teat for thicker liquids, that might be worth trying :shrug:

Also, are you sure the cap isnt screwed on too tight? I use Avent teats with a different bottle (tesco ones) and if the neck is done up too tight, then Evie has a hard time getting the milk out and the teat collapses! Might be worth checking :shrug:
 

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