Mixed feeding, teat closest to nipple

[babybells]

Im thinking about doing mixed feeding sometime in the future. I think its a great idea as opposed to totally giving up breast milk altogether. Has anyone had a good experience with this? Has it worked out the way you planned?

Does anyone know what teat is best - closest to nipple - to avoid nipple confusion and breast rejection? I have heard of chu chu teats or breast flow but cant seem to source them in Australia.

My first baby refused the breast at 6 weeks after getting a bit too use to bottles (hospital advised to bottle feed and let nipples heal etc) so i want to avoid that for sure.

It would be lovely to be able to mix feed and still be giving my baby breast milk for weeks even months to come.

[bookwormmum]

Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature bottles :) They're a bit pricey but worth it.

[Courts21]

My breastfed bubba has one bottle a day. It's always been a bit of a fight to get her to accept any bottle. She will only accept the MAM one's. They have a silk teat which is really soft and it's the only one she'll go for. We tried chu chu, breastflow and tommee tippee. All were rejected.

[*babygirl*]

Tommee tippee closer to nature are the only ones DD2 who is 3 weeks will take.

[flicker]

Tommy tippies are working for us. Ds has not refused boob but is a bit unco at the bottle and dribbles.
I don't think it matters so much which type of bottle, it depends on you bub.
Good luck. Supplimenting can work really well.

[Boobycino]

^^^ the tommee tippee closer to nature ones. & their dummies were the only ones bubs come close to sucking on.

[meatpopsicle]

I use pigeon peristaltic (Y) teats. DD guzzles from those but was a bit meh on the tommy tippees.

[FloatingFairy]

We used the pigeon ones also.

I did comparisons to my own nipple and it was the closest. Avent and TT 's teats are too long.

[krystallxx]

MAM here also ..

[waterlily]

Tommee tippee closer to nature

[Mum2Lil13]

Tommee Tippee closer to nature are awesome I combination fed for a while cause my dd wasn't getting enough and she took to these bottles bottles straight away and we combination fed for five months :)

[kar]

I use pigeon peristaltic (Y) teats. DD guzzles from those but was a bit meh on the tommy tippees.

same, she just rolled the tommee tippees around in her mouth looking bemused.
a word of warning though, my DD was a lazy feeder by nature and once she got her hands on a bottle she got even worse I think with hindsight.

My DS had the pigeon peristaltic and successfully had both bottle and BF for 10 months.