Chu Chu Easy Feed Teat
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Topic: Chu Chu Easy Feed Teat
Posted By: KiwiL
Subject: Chu Chu Easy Feed Teat
Date Posted: 27 February 2009 at 6:35pm
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Has anyone had any experience with these? Jackson has a high palate, and though I haven't yet seen the speech therapist, someone did tell me about these.
"This teat has been developed for infants with feeding difficulties including cleft palate, high palate, downs syndrome or Pierre Robin syndrome. The Easy Feed Teat is also helpful for infants with a low sucking response. The top flat part of the teat behaves as a pseudo palate. The bottom part of the teat has been made extremely soft. This will enable the infant to drink by just applying slight tongue pressure to the lower part, causing the cross cut to open." |
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 28 February 2009 at 2:32am
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We used them. They re a super fantastic teat to use on a child you choose to mix feed as they have to work them like a breast, which means the milk dosen't just "arrive" like in a normal teat, so they have to use the tounge, palete etc. I found thej very, very good, and cannot reccomend them enough although they can be hard to get. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: blondy
Date Posted: 28 February 2009 at 7:49am
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from memory (I might be wrong) - there are a couple of types. the 'standard' chu chu teat recommended for mixed feeding (like fattartsrock said) is a teat that functions more like a breast. I think there is another teat that is shaped differently again, and as you mentioned can be used for cleft palate etc. I bought mine from http://www.online-pharmacy.co.nz/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=36 - here but i see too that breastmates sell them too.
i think the chu chu teat for palate issues actually has a flat side to it, so is slightly different from the one i have tried. http://www.zabonne.co.nz/?action=product&category=10030&id=10112 - linky for that type of teat. -------------  
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Posted By: KiwiL
Date Posted: 28 February 2009 at 11:50am
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Yeah. I think the idea is for Jackson NOT to have to work so hard. It sounds like this teat makes it really easy. He has never had a good suck (I have been saying that forever, so it makes sense this is as a result of the high palate), and this teat talks about poor suckers as well as the high palate.
From my chat with the doctor, she said his tongue could be getting tired as the day goes on, hence why the volume drops and drops and drops. Frustrating thing is that I have always said it feels like Jackson was chewing my breast rather than sucking... I wish the LC had some idea about the palates right back at the beginning. |
Posted By: KiwiL
Date Posted: 28 February 2009 at 11:51am
| Thanks blondy, it is definately the Easy Feed teat I saw. $25!! Wow. Hopefully the hospital has a way of getting them if that's what they recommend. |