Bottles - Dr Brown V MAM

Please note, this is from my own experience only. But, if I can save other mums £30 on bottles I hope it helps as that’s two tubs of formula for us.

My 10 week old boy has colic and slight reflux. We use cow and gate comfort milk, infacol and gripe water along side MAM bottles. Those all together have made a HUGE difference. We no longer have 3 hours of screaming in an evening where the only way to comfort him was bouncing him whilst always being stood up. God forbid you even think about sitting down and the screaming starts again. Unfortunately they have not fixed it all. He still suffers with trapped wind, leading to crying out bursts and is sick, normally only a little, after mosts feeds. The past week the wind has become worse and so has the sick. We were told rave reviews about the Dr Brown bottles so went straight to Argos to buy some. Reviews from Amazon said most boxes or bottles came damaged.

Unfortunately we couldn’t even try the bottles for more than a day as my little boy refused the bottle. We had 4 feeds in total with the Dr Brown bottles. Each feed was a battle with him taking nearly an hour to have 4ozs. He was very sick after one of the bottles and still had issues with trapped wind. The final bottle he just wouldn’t take. He would constantly play with the teat in his mouth or chew on it. As soon as I put the milk in the MAM bottle he drank the whole bottle with no issues.

My thoughts on these bottles are that the teats are too much like a nipple. Which would be great for breastfeeding mothers, those who have just stopped, want to use a bottle for pumped milk or combi feeding. I stopped breastfeeding at 2 weeks and I believe that’s why my little boy rejected the bottle in the end and was so fussy even taking it. If the bottle had worked helping with wind and sick on the first two feeds I would have persevered with them but unfortunately not for us.

We’ve found winding stood up over the shoulder has helped with the trapped wind issue and keeping him over the shoulder while walking too. Our next steps are baby Gaviscon and trying size 0 teat for the MAM bottles. I’m aware he should grow out of all this within a few weeks/months but ideally I’d like to help make things more comfortable for him while I can.

Photo attached to show the difference between MAM and Dr Brown teats.

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Hey lovely. Try pace feeding also. My little boy was vomiting a lot and very windy but this has helped. I followed a video on the hse website. Also using mam bottles and keeping baby vertical for feeds.

My LG was prescribed infant gaviscon and that has hopefully helped. She hasn't cried due to pain with gas in a while and I'm hoping that's due to the gaviscon as its horrible hearing her cry in pain

I agree with trying to pace feed!!!
Also I see you have a size 1 nipple on the mam bottle, I would definitely use size 0 until his reflux gets better, size 1 is definitely letting more air go down!

that made my little girl worse 😢 was hoping it was going to be the cure x

my LG is pooing way more since Gaviscon and her farts are bigger. I only do one sachet a day at around 5pm but she seems fine on it 😅 hoping it helps her. I've seen people say about infacol but I tried my LG on that and it just made her constipated. Once she stopped having infacol she was going once a day

I feel like I have read somewhere that MAM teats fit the wide neck dr Brown bottles if this helps anyone x

We were using MAM bottles until our tongue tie lady told us that our little girl wasn't sucking properly (her top lip was curled under instead covering the whole teat) so i searched for the Dr Brown skinny bottles and it worked like a charm

see I was told 1 sachet in every bottle. We are now on La road free milk but she’s still being really sick. I just don’t know what’s up x

the instructions on the box say every bottle but she seems fine on it once a day, the prescription label on the box says double sachet but I only do half that (1 sachet) it confused me saying that on the box so...

the instructions are bonkers as if you have 5 bottles a day and you use 2 sachets you’re actually giving them over the dose. We did 1 day on it and literally she was being sick so much x

I'm only doing it in 1 bottle a day, seems to be helping and not causing any other issues 😅

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This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

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He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

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I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

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