Feeding Bottles and Nipples
Cats: Baby Equipment|Bottles? Wassup with that?? Well, if you don’t believe me, try washing bottles while exhausted… no, try assembling those with multiple tiny parts. Simple is great; simple and well designed is even better.
For those of you “newbies” out there, trust me; get either the Avent system or Dr Brown’s and don’t look back. 
Also, remember to change the nipples every few months. There is a reason they have the “flow” or “months” labels for nipples. Baby will refuse to feed if the flow is too slow, and you will find he doesn’t finish as much milk as he used to (that is usually a great sign that the flow is too slow). That was our experience. Also, the nipples will harden (doesn’t matter if you use latex or silicon, they all harden with use) and crack if used for too long. In our experience, that “too long” is about 3 to 4 months.
After you get past 6 months, you would be using the “Stage 4″ or “6+ months” nipples already, so what happens near 12 months, when baby again feels tired feeding from nipples that are too “slow”? The solution is not to use old nipples and cut them (remember, they harden and crack after a few months), but to buy the 6+months nipples and try to follow the pre-cut holes when enlarging. In our case, we used the Avent 6+months nipples, which have 4 pre-drilled holes for milk flow, which was getting tedious for baby. I used a clean cuticle scissor, put the two points into opposite holes, and cut a cross in the nipple. Using the pre-cut holes as the termination points prevents the cut from extending beyond the tip of the nipple. If you try cutting a 0months or 3+months nipple in a cross pattern, the silicon will tear beyond your cuts, and leave the nipple unusable.
We haven’t gone to the sipping cups yet (now he is close to 1 year)Â because the bottle is still perhaps the most convenient.
