Making teat hole bigger with needle

[BabyJ'sMummy]

Has anyone tried this? My HV has suggested making the teat hole bigger using a needle as lo is on thicker milk and gaviscon for reflux but the teat keeps getting blocked (he is on largest teat size and we've tried the vari-flow but they kept splitting). If you have tried this how did you go about it and did it work ok?

 

[Lara310809]

The first time we had to do it, we were out, so we didn't have a needle. OH had to bite the tip to make the holes bigger of all of our teats, and they actually worked okay. Don't prick separate holes though, make the existing hole bigger. I know you already said that, but in case someone else is reading this and assume the wrong thing

 

[bathbabe]

no sorry, i was gunna suggest vari flow, but i see you have already tried! My Lo is on comfort and gaviscon vari flow works for us xxx

 

[BabyJ'sMummy]

no sorry, i was gunna suggest vari flow, but i see you have already tried! My Lo is on comfort and gaviscon vari flow works for us xxx

Do you use the tommee tippee ones? We had six and I think they pretty much all ended up splitting! I had read not to use the brush to clean because of the problem with splitting so I was really careful but they still split

 

[bathbabe]

no sorry, i was gunna suggest vari flow, but i see you have already tried! My Lo is on comfort and gaviscon vari flow works for us xxx

Do you use the tommee tippee ones? We had six and I think they pretty much all ended up splitting! I had read not to use the brush to clean because of the problem with splitting so I was really careful but they still split

Yeah TT ones, we have never had a problem x

 

[Rhiannon]

tommee tippee do a thick feed teat...

https://www.tommeetippee.co.uk/product/thick-feed-teat-y-cut/

ive never used these. what ive done with the variflow is to actually slice the teat with a sharp knife to make a clean cut. we use comfort milk and baby porridge for reflux. i found that cutting the teat made it last a little bit longer.

xxxx