Miracle Bottles for breastfeeding!

If your a breastfeeding mommy out there and your baby is refusing to take bottles, firstly I feel your pain. Secondly, I have found your saviour!

We knew when Laura turned 6 weeks we wanted to express so daddy could help with feedings. Before she was born, we bought the tommee tippee closer to nature bottles, steriliser and manual pump.(I chose these because I had used them so much at work and they seem the most popular). To begin with she took these fine, however we weren't consistent with giving her the bottles not realising there would be any issues. After a couple of weeks she refused them completely, I couldn't believe it. We tried a few times but it wasn't happening. It seemed to me as though the nipples were too long and she was gagging on them, they were nothing like my actual boob.

We had also been given a couple of the advent bottles with the 0 month teats. The teat on these are shorter although they are flat on the end, I thought we might have some luck with these. But when we gave them to her she would just chew on the teat and play with it. I even tried her with a dummy, my thought being that if she would take that, she would have more luck with a bottle but NOPE.

So, I headed to the internet doing the typical searches for 'bottles for breastfed babies'. I looked at a few but they didn't look much different. Then I found the mumijumi ones and they do look like a boob but £30 a bottle! Although they apparently have a 97% pass rate and will refund you if your baby doesn't take it.

However, I then found these... Munchkin Latch bottles. Less than £10 a bottle, I thought this is more like it. So I clicked onto amazon an read through the reviews, looked promising, so I made the order. Let me tell you , I have never been more gobsmacked in my life! Gave her a 4oz bottle and she took the lot. No mess, no faff, no nothing. The trick is the teat can move to meet the angle the baby wants and it also releases milk as the baby pumps on the teat, like a boob.

I then went on to rave about these bottles on the Emma's diary parent panel, and it turns out so many women had the same problems. They tried them on my recommendation and couldn't believe it either. One mom explained it much better than I can, " I’m so impressed by the accordion feature, which enables the soft teat to reach the back of babies soft palate-mimicking the breast. Milk is only released when baby makes the sucking motion, another great feature to make it the next best thing for breastfed babies".

Just means I've resorted to expressing and storing in tommee tippee bottles then pour into the munchkin ones to feed. Oh how they like to make life difficult!

Hope this helps you guys,

Speak soon,

Natalie

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