Medela Slow Flow BPA-Free Breastmilk Teat with 150 ml Bottle - Teat with freezer and fridge safe bottle, for expressing, storing and feeding

We purchased this bottle and teat in order to provide extra feeds to our baby as she was born a little light. My wife is breast feeding and we were advised by the hospital to feed our girl with a 5ml syringe or cup. Both of which were awful and took a long time.This bottle is great. The baby fed immediately from it. It took her a few goes before she drank at volume but we can switch between feeds from mum and feeds from dad and the bottle without any issues. This means my wife can have a break without worrying it will spoil how she feeds.It’s great quality, clearly well designed and does the job.Highly recommend.

After a not so successful breastfeeding journey with my twins I was determined to give it my best shot second time round with my daughter and we have both had an amazing experience so far. I still had all of my other bottles (Lansinoh Momma) that I used for the boys and thought they'd be ok should I need to leave my daughter at any time for quick trips to run errands or for one of the rare chances that I go out of an evening (we were invited to celebrate a friends 50th birthday). I tried paced bottle feeding her with a Lansinoh bottle, however even with the smallest teat it came out to fast for her and she'd guzzled a feed down in record time.I came across the Medela Calma bottle by chance after reading about it in a breastfeeding support group. It is unique in that it only lets milk flow into the teat when baby sucks, unless they suck it stays in the bottle as it has an inner part to the teat which covers the neck of the bottle. It is almost a waterfall system, the tip of the teat isn't closed at all, it is open about 6mm and the milk trickles down the inside of it when baby starts sucking and stops when they stop. It's quite innovative and is said to mimic how a baby breastfeeds by doing this. Like supply and demand rather than being an instant fast flow with ordinary bottles.My daughter took to it really well. At the time of writing she is 6 months old and it has only been necessary for three feeds in total but she has taken each one no problem. If you're looking to purchase this to aid in your breastfeeding journey or if you intend to use it for formula feeding I highly recommend it and also to look up paced bottle feeding on youtube. There's a wonderful video by the la leche league.

This teat is modelled on the breast and claims to be the closest to breastfeeding. It also claims to reduce colic (which teat doesn't?) Luckily our little one is an exclusively Medela Calma baby and she gets on very well with it.+ BPA-free+ You can see the squirts of milk coming out of the teat as it is see through plastic+ One size fits all so you don't need to think about teat sizes when baby grows+ You get two lids with these which is a bonus+ Cleaning is a breeze as the teat falls apart into three pieces with not much nooks and crannies- The teat is long and is designed to stick into the back of baby's mouth. Can be quite unsettling at first- The bottles are tall so will be a tight fit in your steam sterilizer but it just about fit into ours (Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Electric Steriliser Kit)- If your baby is a messy eater then don't expect this to make a difference as it can still be messyYou can actually buy separate multi-packs of the bottle and teats (see Medela 250 ml BPA-Free Breastmilk Bottles (2-Pack) and Medela Calma Solitaire) but when we weighed up the prices it was cheaper to buy this complete set rather than the separates.Also, one piece of advice I've heard many times is that every baby is different so although this teat gets lots of positive reviews there is still a chance your baby won't get on with it in which case you just have to try something else. It will be trial and error.