What suits one baby may not necessarily suit another.

Sam was having terrible trouble with the bottle teats we used in the SCN, so when DH bought the avent steriliser that came with an avent newborn bottle, he brought it in for us to try. The SCN nurses advised us that most prems had trouble with avent bottles and it likely wouldn't help, but we could give it a try...

We did, and he's never looked back.

The only time I've had trouble with avent bottles leaking is if I haven't got the top on properly (if the teat has gone to the side rather than sitting square in the middle) or I've not screwed the ring on tight enough.

And just because there's a range of different aged teats doesn't mean you need to go through them all. Sam was on the newborn teats until nearly three months old and is still on the 1 month teats now at nearly 4 months old. We don't change him to the next fastest teat until he shows signs of struggling with the flow on the current ones... we actually had a lot of trouble at one stage because we moved him up too fast, so we went back and aren't in any hurry to the three hole teat just because he's over three months like it says on the box!

BW