Bottles and Nipples???

I highly recommend Dr. Brown's Natural Flow bottles. They are perfect for kids with reflux issues, and they make a Y-cut nipple especially for thick liquids. They also have regular nipples. You can get them from Target or Babies R Us. But BRU tends to have the best selection of nipples. You can also get the wide neck bottles where the nipple simulates the breast. Dr. Brown's saved my life with my son because he had reflux, too. My daughter did not, but I loved them so much I just kept using them!

...LF

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I used playtex bottles that come with the liners and the triple hole nipples or the fast flowing nipples for the bottles. I found if I used a regular baby bottle the ones you don't have to have the liners for that I would have the same problem you are having with yours. Good luck.

We also use Enfamil AR with our son. He also has reflux. We have to buy the premixed formula because the powdered Enfamil AR is too thick and clumpy to go through any nipples we tried. When I compared the price of premixed and powdered formula it was just a few cents different. We use the ventaire bottles and the playtex drop ins. The same nipples fit in both and the stage 2 or fast flow just would not work with the powdered Enfamil AR.

advent love them and you can get the different size nipples or the one with 3 different flows

My son had reflux too so we added cereal to his bottle at night. We just cut and X in the nipple.

i use dr browns because i have to add rice cereal to my daughters bottles which i swore i would never do.... but any way dr browns have diff levels of nipples 1 2 3 and y i use the 3 for my daughter and her bottles but you may want to try a 2 first to make sure he doesnt get too much too fast good luck!

All I can say is, I had a baby that had such horrible reflux we were at the hospital every week. I nursed him. He seemed to do better at the bottle. Playtex Nurser (the bags in the bottle) are my best friend. I tried all sorts of formula. Experimented on my child as that is all I could do. Solids at 3 months (I know, a scandal) was the best thing ever. He was more than ready. That was the highlight of his day. Target/Walmart brand was just as great. The nurser bottles are important. Ventair cause crazy spit up. Feed him solids (cereal mixed with formual counts). It may go against recomendation, but isn't it the same thing as adding rice to his bottle?

I had a neighbor who son spit up and it turned out, after several trips to the doctor and ER, that he had a problem with the connection between his stomach and small intestine. Have you and your doctor research that area? I have another friend whose son has to be on the rice starch formula because he spits up so much; she uses the Playtex Nurser System with the liners and the fast flow nipples. Good luck, J.

I was thinking about what I typed and thought that it might freak you out so let me add, the baby that had the connection problem had other symptoms that his doctor ignored like losing weight and not eliminating. So, if your baby does not have these and other issues that your doctor can tell you, there probably is no need to worry. Sorry if this was crazy sounding. J.