Combination feeding/Supplementing Question?

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Wondering if anyone combination feeds and if so, what type of bottle seems to be the best to use. I've been looking at the "munchkin latch" but I have no experience with this. Any suggestions help.

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I use the Avent bottles because the nipple encourages him to keep the wide latch he uses to breastfeed

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I use evenflo glass bottles with the evenflo proflow vented silicone nipples slow flow. I supplement maybe once a day every other day with enfamil formula when I haven't had time to pump a fresh bottle or I don't have time to warm up one of my refrigerated breast milk supplies. I breastfeed off the breast, warm up refrigerated breast milk in a bottle, give her fresh expressed milk in a bottle, and on the rare occasions give her a formula bottle. She's 5 weeks old and have been doing so since she was born. I have three other children that are school aged and run a business with my husband so I feed her with whatever is convenient at the time. And she does really well eating. Never fought me on the different ways of eating so far. She's growing really well and is staying a healthy weight.

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I'm using medela and Kiinde right now w my 7wk old, using slow flow nipples. Breast milk all around, but she'll need a bottle for daycare. She seems to prefer Kiinde but we've only used bottles a few times.

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We've had good luck with tommee tippee bottles. He takes one during the day and I breastfeed at night.

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My best friend used Tommee Tippee and it worked great for her so that's what I bought.

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I use Avent Naturals. I think one of the things thats good to look for when combo feeding is a super slow flow nipple(premie nipple). The first time we gave my lo a bottle(at 8 days old) she choked because she wasn't use to milk flowing so freely. Which switched from a size 1 to a size 0 and have been combo feeding ever since, she's over 4 month old now.

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My son is combination fed - he used to get top ups several times a day but now just has one bottle at bedtime. We use MAM anticolic bottles and like them. We've never had issues with confusion or him preferring the bottle etc.

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Tommee Tipee worked for me.

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Medela is what I used 5 years ago (my last baby) with this one I'm trying a stainless steel bottle.  However,  my baby was severely tongue tied at birth. Dr thought he may get nipple confusion.  He did not with Medela slow flow nipples. I have to breastfeed and bottle.

Combination feeding/Supplementing Question?

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