Anna asked:
 
<<Anyone else used  this with a baby yet?>>


 
 
I have.  I got two of them --  lucky me.  So I had a baby here the other day 
that is losing weight and  needed to be supplemented.  Mom had been using the 
soft cup, but baby was  choking and gagging because of a tight frenulum -- 
unable to organize her tongue  to accommodate the bolus.  All that to say -- 
here, lets try this brand new  bottle I just got and see how it works.
 
So we did.
 
After about 5 minutes of her  doing some really rather good sucking, and 
seeing a few bubbles in the bottle,  but not hearing any swallowing -- we 
discovered that at the most, she had taken  all of about 5 cc.  Gave her an Avent 
bottle which is what mom had brought  with her, and using paced feeds, the baby 
took 2 ounces in an appropriate period  of time.  Could actually hear some good 
gulping and  swallowing.
 
Mom took the bottle home and said she'd play w/ it w/ the baby and see if  
she could get the baby to work with it when she needed to supplement, but I've  
not heard back from her yet so don't know how it worked.  Perhaps the  problem 
was using it on a baby with a tongue tie (not a severe one, but severe  
enough that she isn't able to cup the tongue well and work with the bolus of  milk 
when cup feeding, even tiny amounts.
 




Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC,  RLC
Wheaton  IL





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