Teat size - combi feeding

Is anyone else combi feeding breast and bottle? I'm just realising that I need to replace the teats on our bottles but wondering if it's still OK to use size 0 or size 1 (MAM & lansinoh bottles) with an 11 week old? I don't want to give a faster flow as we've already had a hard time with breastfeeding and are still even using nipple shields.

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thank you!

My son is 10 weeks old and I just went up from size 0 to size 1 but then read you don’t need to if breast feeding. He’s fine with size 1 so I’m guessing we will just stick with them, at least for a while anyway. He’s most breastfed but has the occasional bottle of expressed milk.

I combi feed and am still using 0 teat mam bottles for formula and expressed milk x

My little one is 10 weeks and is breastfed (still getting hang of latching) and expressed via bottle (mostly expressed milk). I just moved from 0 to 1 today as she was sucking so hard on the teat she was collapsing it. I think I have a fast flow so makes sense the 0 isn’t working for her anymore. She seems more content taking her bottle now x

Oh and I use MAM bottles x

Depends on your and your baby, I had an oversupply and fast letdown so baby was absolutely not satisfied with the smaller teats, he would scream and take ages to feed after around 8 weeks, we swapped to variflow, which I thought would be too fast but he was way more satisfied and happy during feeding.

Hi I am in similar position, use nipple shields when breastfeeding. My little boy just turned 12 weeks and I’m using size 1 teats wasn’t sure whether to change or not x

I use size 2 for breast milk but I have a fast let down so I think closest to what she's used to, started on 0 then 1 then 2 because she started to become frustrated at them xx

My little girl is 9weeks old, combi feeding breast and bottle, usually we would still be using size1 teats but she has such a strong suck but was taking 30 to 45mins to finish a bottle with size 0 and size 1... So we have moved up to size 2 now and she is much happier. We are also dealing with reflux and now having to add gaviscon sachets to the bottles and we use MAM bottles and teats and love these. But the reflux is a whole other problem. Hope you get sorted for you and yours xx

Thank you all! She's been good with size 0 and 1 so far and can drink 3-4oz in about 10 minutes with them and seems happy enough so I'll stick with size 0😊

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