teats for nb-expressing/ feeding amounts?

hi ladies
glad to hear im not the only one out there expressing aussiegirl I was wondering what newborn bottle and teat is best? to ensure a slow suck and less wind / reflux etc, I got the advent ones but little Jayden skulls it back and vomits a bit....any advice would be greatly appreciated

also on expressing is there any information out there as to how much to feed each feed etc or a calculation? im at this stage to my mw horror expressing each feed as bf was taking 2-3 hours and little Jayden was not happy!

thanks for your help ladies

We used the avent bottles with the slowest flow teat for ages, but Chloe threw up heaps anyway because she had reflux issues (which were way worse when BF as opposed to having expressed milk, but she had gaviscon for a while which helped). Around that age Chloe was drinking around 60mLs per feed, sometimes more.

Does he skull back a whole bottle at once? I had to stop Chloe and burp her 2-3 times in between to get most of it to stay down... that way she had less wind and didn't get the milk too fast either.

We used Avent with the gremlins, and using Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature with Chiara but only so we can distinguish between their bottles and hers.

The formula calculations don't really apply to breastmilk as formula is much denser, a lot of formula fed babies have bigger, less frequent feeds whereas breastmilk fed babies tend to need feeding more frequently as it digests faster.

At Jayden's age the gremlins were taking approx 80-100ml per feed and feeding 3 hourly so around 8 feeds a day. I would start off with a smaller amount then give them more if they finished it so as not to waste any of my precious breastmilk!

Hope that helps. I express fed them for 10 weeks coz they wouldn't latch. If you are keen to get him back on the breast tho it might be worth asking your m/w for a referral to Plunket Family Centre, they are great with helping get feeding sorted coz you go there for the whole day and they observe and help you to latch at each feed.

I used the NUK brand classic teats that have the anti-colic hole thing on them. If you get these they also have different ones for breastmilk that have a smaller whole to the ones they have for formula

Im using the tommee tippee ones that have a nipple like teat and they are anti collic aswell.
Caden is now on formula as I cant breastfeed for certain reasons, but when I was still breastfeeding and formula feeding I found them great as he would still latch onto my breast well cos of the teat on the bottle.