which bottles should i buy?

babylon85

HappySad wrote:

I was given one bottle from a friend and 2years later the writing has now gone off. The other ones that I bought have a little wear on them. Boots and Mothercare sell them.

FYI - Boots and Mothercare have stopped selling them, because there are currently legal proceedings on the trademark "B-Free" (Dr Browns new name) - but you can buy the bottles online at http://www.babybfree.com

kazd

Used Avent with all three of my kids, am still using two of them despite the youngest being 5 1/2. Only joking he has been off bottles for years, not joking about using them though, use them for measuring small amounts of liquid, so the measurements are still good to read.

Have to confess with my last he would scream everytime I laid him on his back, eventually with much trepidation I put him on his front and he slept like an angel after that. I did this on the advice of my friend who's baby had heart trouble and was in hospital a lot, he was always put to sleep on his front because the lungs hand more freely.

Having said that I am not suggesting that you should put your baby to sleep that way, this was a last resort for me, my other two slept on their backs with no problem.

Chezell

Congratulations to you and your bundle of joy,

My other half works for Avent in the silicone dept, making the teats, he tells me all Avent teats have an anti-colic valve, preventing babies from taking in to much air, but if you find your little one is prone to colic, he say's to use the disposable bottles,(bag's) because as the baby is feeding, the bag collapses and no air can get into the baby's feed.

auntywalker2

Sorry not read all the replies, but I used Avent with my first, and apart from a few leaky bottles they were ok.
However, my second couldn't drink from them as tons of milk came back out of her mouth. My midwife advised me to get traditional narrow neck bottles as the teat sits further back in babies mouth. I bought Mothercare ones and this solved the problem.

HTH

PS I used Colief drops £9.99 from Boots for suspected Colic, you make the feed up in advance and it breaks down the lactose so it's easier to digest I believe

jellyhead

thanks to you all :-) i've not heard of colief drops, i'll do some research! the omneo was great for a while but he started getting too hungry again, we were on holiday and sharing a caravan, so i was persuaded to buy him some hungry baby milk, to save everyone's sanity. he started getting angry again, it stopped the hunger but brought the pain back. if colief can stop the hungry baby milk from causing him pain it might be worth a go. my husband has been reading stuff and he thinks baby is just trying to drop a feed during the night. he's only 5 week old but he weighs 12 pounds so it's about right apparently. seems like everything i do only satisfies his hunger for a little while, he always wants more lol! MIL has been saying this weekend that both her children were happier sleeping on their tummies. it's not recommended so of course i'm not suggesting anyone tries it. he often sleeps on me, so he's on his tummy but he's lying on top of me. i wake if he snuffles, and i would wake if he vomited etc. so i think it's okay but i will be asking the health visitor. he's such a big boy, weighs much more than other babies his age. MIL hints that i should go by weight, and that at his weight most babies would be old enough for solids ... hmmm - i'm gradually working out how to use this baby, he doesn't come with an instruction manual :rotfl:

Bun

HI Jellyhead,

Sorry Little Roo is still being somewhat of a challenge.

Apologies if I have read this wrong, but alarm bells have started ringing at your MIL's suggestions. However desperate you are, WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T BE PERSUADED TO GIVE A BABY THIS YOUNG SOLIDS. Their stomachs are not developed enough and you could cause long term bowel damage. There is a thread somewhere on here about weaning, and one poster had a friend who had weaned at four weeks and given him terrible colon problems.
Way worse than colic now, and you'd never forgive yourself.

I'm sure you won't but I know a a screaming baby can make you feel like trying anything.

Good luck with all the other suggestions. HOpe your health visitor is being more helpful. If Roo hates being on his back were they able to tell you about the cranial osteopathy?

Bun

jellyhead

hi, no i wouldn't try giving him solids, not at 5 weeks. MIL gave rusks to my husband but i have read that they shouldn't be used before 6 months. husband doesn't seem to have a healthy digestive system, without going into too much detail lol! my eldest boy never wanted solids and wasn't weaned until about a year so this is my first experience of a hungry baby. he seems happy enough without the hungry baby milk now - maybe the very soft water was affecting him on holiday, we're used to very hard water. he does try to gorge in the evening though, he wants extra milk before bed and then only has half a bottle during the night. so that's the hunger explained, he must be filling up before bedtime.

i do know people my age who gave their young babies rusk or baby rice and while they do seem to have problems and seem to have dairy and/or wheat intolerances it's difficult to say if it was caused by early weaning, i have my boy with his apparent dairy allergy who wasn't weaned early. but you're right i would never forgive myself if i went against advice about weaning and caused him problems.

health visitor is coming on friday, they don't come out much. i'll ask about the cranial osteopathy. there is a clinic in our town centre so i could just go there and ask. in a bit of a daze at the moment, just got back from an exhausting holiday and roo has a cold so isn't sleeping or feeding properly, i'm not even dressed yet today so no chance of getting into town to enquire about cranial osteopathy or colief drops today, hopefully the fog in my head will have cleared a bit by the time spud goes back to school!

Mumstheword

Hi JH.
I used colief too for ds3 as he puked when i gave him infacol (ds1&2 treated that as their starter, lol!)
Sleeping babies on their tummy isfrowned upon for safety reasons, but how about letting him lie on his tummy in the evening when colic is bad, whilst you are around? Or lie him accross your knees, on his tummy, and jig your knees up and down. I know when I've got tummy ache, there's nothing as good as lying on a hot water bottle. The pressure and warmth help.
As for weaning, well you already know he's too young yet. My middle son was very hungry (born 9lb 8oz), and when I eventually admitted to the HV that I'd given him rice at 12 weeks she said she was surprised I'd managed to hold out that long, lol!!

If you would like the colief drops today, phone up your chemist to find out who has them in stock, and phone a friend or neighbour to ask them to get them for you. The best way to show someone they are your friend is to let them help you!

Mumxx


Edit- another way for getting wind up- sit him on your knee facing away from you with his back leaning against your tummy. With both your hands, rub his tummy in circular motions starting off gently. At first, it might make him worse but if it gets some wind up it'll make him feel tonnes better. Try it on yourself next time you have tummy ache-it works!

hatsepsovet

Hi jellyhead,

Congratulations on your new baby.

When my little one was a baby (2 years ago) I started using the Avent bottles. However she brought up every feed and it wasn't very nice at all. In desperation I bought Dr Brown's bottles and never looked back. I swear she never had any colic and never brought up her feed ever! I most definitely recommend them - I know I will use them again with my next baby. They are pricey, but they do last - and they were so good that my daughter was using them till not so long ago. I think they are called something else now; I think Mothercare have stopped stocking them (at least my local one has) but Boots and John Lewis definitely have them

jellyhead

hi all :-)

baby has quite bad diarrhoea, hence all the screaming. it started late yesterday but has got a lot worse over the last couple of hours. he's got a sore bottom for the first time ever and is very upset about things. around 6 dirty nappies in the last hour, luckily i had some cream for just in case. he's been sweating a lot since lunchtime and now his urine is dark. not seeing HV until friday so if he is still poorly in the morning i'll try and see a doctor, not sure what they can do though, just give him dioralyte and tell me to stop the formula, i can't see that going down too well with roo! i think it must be a bug, it's not the colic back again. until the last couple of days i was thinking the colic was gone, the omneo got rid of it. a bad cold, change of water, some hungry baby milk, my breastmilk drying up to almost nothing meaning he has less of it, perhaps the horribly hot weather - lots of factors causing the tummy upset but this diarrhoea is very bad, not the usual tummy trouble. he screams for 5 minutes before each dirty nappy and it's horrible to see, he's in so much pain and then he hates me when i clean him. by the way huggies pure baby wipes are nothing like cotton wool and water, don't believe what it says on the box. i used them today and caught a bit of eczema with it, it was very painful, i wouldn't like to think how much it hurts a baby if they have a sore bottom!!

if it was colic roo had it did go away for a couple of weeks completely, and has only come back while we were on holiday. i would recommend the omneo milk for anyone with a colicky baby.

i tried the tommy tippee health check bottles (£9.99 for two, i only used them a few times so if anyone wants to try them i can post them), they seem to be like the dr b ones but he didn't like them, they have their own teats and he hates the teats. he also hates avent teats. the TT bottles i bought to replace the worn ones are just as bad, the numbers are wearing off. i am using some avent bottles, luckily they can be used with the TT nuby teat, it's the only teat he likes, we've tried lots!

sorry for using this thread as a general waffle lol! i've tried all the tips for tummy rubbing, warmth etc. but he prefers to be held against the chest, preferably my pregnant sisters over-inflated breasts. i get period pain and IBS and i know i prefer to be on my tummy lying on a water bottle but he seems to be a breast man lol!

one tip - scent distracted him for a few minutes, i gave him the aroma bear from the recent little me boots offer.