Hospital NUK teat size??

[WishfulX1]

Hi my baby was born at 33weeks and took really well to the hospital latex standard nuk teats. I got her home yesterday and she was getting to exhausted using my own bottles, luckily I had got a few nuk teats from the hospital before leaving and bought a narrow neck bottle to use with them and she took to it really well just like the hospital.

I'm looking to buy more of these teats however noticed on the NUK website that they sell the standard neck teats in size 1 small hole and size 1 medium hole.

Anyone know which ones the hospital use? If not I could just buy a pack of each.

Thanks

 

[skunkpixie]

Im not sure if they are small hole or medium hole but you can buy the pre-sealed hospital ones from ebay, and just sterilise and re-use them. Best sterilised with cold water sterilisation as latex can get tacky when heated too much. xxx

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NUK-DISP..._Feeding_Bottles_Teats_LE&hash=item4d03d3c5a6

 

[pinkylisa28]

In my hospital they used the size 1 medium hole.thats what I order when I had similar problems when my daughter came home from scbu.

 

[W22KLB]

We had exactly the same problem with my daughter after her week stay in the Neo Natel ward, she was born at 35 +6. We tried every bottle/teat in the end we brought a bottle from Poundland with medium flow teat and she loves it.

NNU advised to use med flow as slow flow was tiring her out before she had finished her feed.

Hope this helps.

 

[zizii]

I have some nuk teats if you need ? I took them from hospital to! I will check the teat size on the packaging tomorrow!

Maybe ring nuk and ask too ???

 

[Tor]

It would be the med flow i presume as the teats they use in neonatal are much much faster than normal slow flow teats.

 

[dizz]

It would be the med flow i presume as the teats they use in neonatal are much much faster than normal slow flow teats.

We were just put on exactly the same teats as "normal" term babies (and she was a 33 weeker too). I'd ring the hospital and ask to be honest - assuming you have better aftercare than we did!

We'd actually been tipped off about this potential pitfall and advised to bring our own bottles in a couple of days before discharge to make sure they worked well for her - by the one nurse on that transitional care ward with a clue because she'd had a prem baby herself (she also advised me since I had my laptop and internet dongle with me to get online and sort out a shopping order booked for home delivery the night I got home - another stonkingly good idea)!