---- LACTNET automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
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> 
> ...The materials claim that
> Avent teats mimic the breast in form and function and make it easy to switch
> between breast and bottle from the start.
> As one who has been privy to a meeting between point-of-sale staff and an
> Avent representative telling them how to maximize sales, I have a difficult
> time recommending their products at all...


I think someone in recent months asked if Avent teats (level/stage 1/newborn/slow flow) seemed to flow faster than they had in the past. I think that's a good question and I also think it behooves us to be careful about getting in ruts re: thinking a product that seems better will stay better. For whatever reason, a manufacturing process can change -- and not always for the better. I certainly don't know if that has happened with this one -- just saying caution is always called for.

In the teat flow testing that a colleague and I did (and presented at ILCA as a poster last year), the stage 1/NB/slow flow Avent had a flow rate that averaged about the same as the slowest in-hospital, disposable teat we tested -- and all of the in-hospital types flowed faster than we calculated as OK for the newborn period. (Keep in mind that we were considering newborn suck, which evolves over the first weeks. We were especially concerned with the progression of the ineffectively BF or newborn feeding difficulty situation -- not the baby that has BF down well.) 

Karen

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