Nothing coming out of Avent bottles

[griffster]

We started using SMA 1 when our daughter was born with Avent bottles having 0M+ teets. She seemed to drink these fine, however she was often sick after a feed. We therefore switched to using SMA Staydown. Although the sickness has stopped, what we've found is sometimes she sucks on the teets and nothing comes out. Very frustrating especially at night when it seems she's been sucking for a long time until she nods off to sleep and only when we inspect the bottle that she's had very little of the formula. Winding her has no effect. All we can think of is that the teets are getting clogged up. Clumps of formula in the bottle seem to back this up. We tried getting the next size up of teets (1M+ Avent) with no real improvement. She's not off her food either as we tried the ready made SMA bottles and she guzzled them down.

Am I mixing them wrong or something? We don't really want to revert to SMA 1 or something similar as she may start being sick again. What I currently do is boil a kettle, wait 30 minutes. Then place 120 ml of this water in to the bottle, and either

1) add 4 scoops of SMA staydown, 4 drops of Colief and shake the bottle, wait another 30 minutes and then feed her,

or 2) if preparing it for a later feed, add 4 scoops of SMA staydown, 2 drops of Colief and shake the bottle, let it cool down and then place in the refrigerator.

SO hope someone on here can give us some advice!

 

[GossipGirl]

Not sure how old your baby is but I started my boy on aptamil comfort a few weeks ago which is loads thicker than regular formula and the teats with two holes got blocked with me too so I switched to three holes and they're way better at the milk coming through. I did try the variable flow ones with the slits but way too much came out for a month old baby but the three holes for 3m+ are just fine for me.

And I do the second one you said, I prepare in advance, it's so much easier and less hassle for baby than having to wait the half hour.

Another tip too - look for colief on ebay, I got four bottles at £6.50 each a few days ago from there, all brand new and sealed. Saves paying £10.99 for it in boots!

 

[ouchwithNo.2]

I am rushing BUT.... (may not read your post right) staydown must be added to cool boiled water - ie, fridge cool, not even slightly warm.
you should never shake the formula but roll it between your hands, it thickens itself.
OH always buggers up her bottles and ends up putting it through a sieve (wtf?!) found out he is warming the water then adding the powder....
As staydown is thicker to do exactly that you mayneed to go up a teat size.
Avent #1 dont work - I have tried, #2 sometimes clogs.
We use DR Browns and #1 is rubbish and again #2 is ok but sometimes clogs and needs a stretch...
Make up your supply for 24hrs, we do 7 x 7oz bottles of water and put in fridge.
30mins before feed due take bottle out to raise temp ever so slightly (staydown works better given at room temp, but you can warm slightly after adding powder) then prior to feed add your scoops and roll, roll, roll.... ready to go.

 

[ouchwithNo.2]

BTW - You can get staydown on prescription....

 

[rwhite]

I have found that since buying reflux formula (sounds like the same sort of thing as you're describing) it will not flow as fast out of the teats as regular formula, and that's because it's thickened to prevent the baby from bringing it back up. I would suggest trying the size 2 teats and seeing how you get on. We are using size 3 for regular formula and they're just fine but the reflux formula won't flow through them very fast at all so I have had to make very small cuts in the teats and it's been perfect Hope this helps

 

[Odd Socks]

my friend started her baby on aptamil comfort milk & had to get variflow teats for her avent bottles. the avent teats are different to a lot of other makes because instead of the hole size increasing, they just put more holes in them. the variflow teats are for thicker milks.
they're not easy to get hold of though, best option is mothercare of a large supermarket.
xx