I stopped using only one bottle type recently.  Instead, I use what is  
needed for the individual baby based on mouth size and issue.  For most,  Dee's 
'straight nipple' method works just fine.  I find babies are quite  smart and if 
they are having issues with their tongue the playtex natural latch  I have 
seen lately is not a good plan...they can push that nipple right  inside the 
wider base.  They can chew it and twist it.  Actually,  quite interesting to watch 
them. Maybe they used to be firmer, but now they  are very soft.  Avent I 
haven't liked in years because it is just too firm  and the little babies really 
can't get their mouths far enough down to the base  anyway and the idea of 
slow flow seems to have escaped them.  I even  find that with some of the little 
4 lb babies their mouths are very wide when  all the way down on the regular 
straight nipples if they are to the  collar.  I haven't seen the newer comfi's 
but I will be looking for  them.  
 
 I think the  method is more important than the nipple.   Slow paced feeding, 
waiting for that open mouth even for the bottle.  What  I wish for is longer 
nipples so they will be where the mother's nipple  belongs, a slightly wider 
base but not so wide it tries to 'look' like the  breast since it won't 
function as one (soft, pliable, molding,  etc.)--just wide enough to keep those lips 
from pursing but not so wide it  displaces the tongue and a real slow flow 
that only responds to sucking. 
 
Take care,
Pam MazzellaDiBosco
Florida, USA

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