09/09/2025
We are big fans of the Lansinoh bottles in our family! 🏔️ shaped ni***es are 👌🏻 Also buying the preemie slowest flow sets you up for success along with paced feeding to prolong and protect your breastfeeding relationship!
As a speech therapist, I started my career bottle feeding babies in the NICU. In my private practice, I’ve researched and studied bottles and their impact on infant feeding. Here’s what every new parent need to know when bottle feeding their baby:
1. Don’t fall for the marketing. There are a lot of bottles that are designed to look like a breast. They don’t work like one. You want to pick your bottle based on the shape or the ni**le. A tapered ni**le like the Pigeon, Lansinoh, Gulicola, or Evenflo Balance promote and optimal latch. Dr Brown’s narrow is decent for some, but the long ni**le can gag many babies. Evenflo Classic and Life Factory are alternatives to Dr Brown’s narrow. Straw like bottles like Como Tomo, Tommee Tippee, Avent and Boon promote a shallow, narrow latch. While some babies can function on these, they’re not optimal
2. Offer your first bottle between 3-6 weeks if you have to go back to work. Babies rely on reflexes for the first few months to practice sucking. This reflex integrates and shifts to chewing around 3-4 months. If you need to give a bottle for returning to work, offer it early and keep offering it routinely. The muscles for breast and bottle feeding are different and it can be difficult for older babies to learn the new skill. Offering too close to going back to work can be really stressful for both parents and baby
3. Offer the slowest ni**le your baby tolerates. Bottle feeding should take 15-20 minutes to take a 2-4oz bottle until baby is 4+ months. It takes 20 minutes for the stomach to tell the brain it’s full. Feeding a baby too fast increases the likelihood baby will be over fed
4. If baby is struggling to take a bottle, get help sooner rather than later
