Dr Brown Bottle Feeding Teat Stage

As you may see from a recent review we have changed Jayden's bottles from Avent to Dr Brown to see if it will improve the amount of air he swallows when drinking his milk. Whilst there was a small improvement with the new bottles he was still gulping down a lot of air with his milk. I mentioned this when I took him to be weighed etc at the clinic and it was suggested that we tried the next level teat, whilst these are designed for babies a few months older than Jayden the idea was that the milk would come out of the teat faster for him meaning he would just swallow the milk and not have to ... more

Dr Brown is a physician who created his own brand of bottles which are aimed to help babies be as healthy as possible especially whilst feeding. The bottles are designed with a special air vent in them to remove excess air from entering your baby whilst they feed. The bottles are available in different sizes with different teats. Before I became a father I didn't know bottles could be so complicated! They come in different sizes, different widths, different flow teats and it all seemed pretty complicated when we started to need to use a bottle with our baby. The different teats are really ... more

Dr Brown bottles are what we use with my grandchildren and they have been really very useful. They are specially designed to help restrict the flow of air which the baby takes in which then reduces the chances of the baby getting colic. Over time after we had used our bottles quite a lot the teats began to discolour but instead of having to buy the whole bottle again(They cost £5 for one) we could just buy the teats individually. This was very useful as it meant that we could still use the bottle, the tubing and the collar that we already had so we didn't have to throw it away once replaced ... more