Which bottle/teat???

Ashleigh is having real issues with wind while drinking her bottle. She takes around 100ml and we have to burp her around 5 times during the feed which is getting quite frustrating   She is also quite hard to wind so it is taking forever to feed her. She is using Avent bottles and teats at the moment. I have also tried the Tommee Tippee Nuborn bottle with crosscut teat but it was pretty much the same. Does anyone have any recommendations for a different brand that may help???

We've started using the Tommee Tippee Close to Nature bottles, they are designed to mimic the breast and have an anti-colic valve. We've found Maddie seems to do heaps better on those than with the Avent ones and I really am loving them! Maddie seems to have a more natural sucking action on them that looks more like the one she had when she was on the breast.

We've also been finding getting her to take plenty of breathers, even if we don't burp her every time, is helping as well. She was bringing back up quite a lot before now it's pretty minimal.

we use Pur self strealising bottles here as madison would not have a bar of the avent ones. and use gripe water before a feed which really helps her with wind

we use the self sterilising ones too, they are great.

We were given a choo-choo teat in the hospital. They minimise breast/teat confusion and make baby work harder (like on the breast) for feeding. I think most chemists have them. We only had 1, and it worked well, but then Amelia went back on the breast, so when we use bottles now, we are using the Avent ones.

I use the self sterilising pur simplicity bottles with age appropriate teats (she's 5 months and is on 3-6 month flow). I make sure that the lid is not screwed on tight so that she gets optimum flow and the air just floats straight to the top. Unfortunately there is no miracle cure for wind (or so my Dr tells me) but I think that infacol is God whenever Olivia gets a bit windy.
There is a specially shaped (slight v shape) NUK bottle that you can get at the pharmacy (in my town anyways!) it has an air valve at one end to control colic.
Also your brand of formula could be attributing to wind, it might be a bit to heavy for her tummy we changed formulas from Gold Karicare to Regular and Olivia just wouldn't wind so we had to change back (it also flared up her reflux).
Good luck that it sorts itself out soon.
Congratulations on becoming a Mummy!


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