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November 12, 2009 at 10:25 am #64532

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HI All!

We’ve been using Dr Brown’s bottles, standard size for a while. Harry likes them and I bought enough that I haven’t ruined my hands trying to clean them all-just stick them all in the dishwasher! BUT now that we’re giving thickened formula, it gets all clogged up in there. Any secrets anyone knows to stop that from happening?

I tried switching him to the Playtex drop-ins, but he doesn’t like the wider nipple–he pushes it out and won’t eat. Does anyone know of any other drop-in type bottle that’s a standard size rather than wide mouth? I figure I minus well go with easy drop-ins if I’m going to switch bottles, I really don’t want to have to buy all new bottles again!!

Thanks

November 12, 2009 at 12:13 pm #64534

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I know they are discontinued now, but you may be able to find some on ebay or amazon. I used them for Evie. Avent Tempo. They are drop-ins and are BPA free. You can use all the reular Avent nipples. There were a few on clearance at Target recently.

November 12, 2009 at 12:14 pm #64535

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I just realized you didn’t want wide mouth. Sorry. I’d check babiesrus.com. They have a lot of bottles.

November 12, 2009 at 2:40 pm #64538

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I am going to try the born free glass bottles this go round but they are expensive… What is getting clogged the nipple or the “valve” for lack of a better word? If it is the nipple don’t they make a Y cut for thickened formulas? Just trying to help you trouble shoot.

November 12, 2009 at 2:55 pm #64539

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Thanks ladies! It’s the valve part on the inside that gets all gooped up with formula. I don’t remember this happening when I did it with Dagney, I must have done something different, but can’t remember what! The only difference is that we used the wide-mouth with her, so maybe those valves have more space in them…not sure!

November 14, 2009 at 12:49 pm #64556

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If you run the cereal flakes through a coffee grinder or a food processor (so that it’s like table sugar), you will be able to get a more smooth consistency of thickened formula that will travel through the venting system just fine. We used about 3 tbsp of rice cereal for 4 ounces of formula, so it was pretty dang goopy, but we had no issues with the venting system after we started processing the cereal.

November 19, 2009 at 8:56 am #64602

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We used the Dr Browns with a size 4 nipple w/ oatmeal and a size 3 w/ simply thick and we never had any issues so you may wanna try that. We also ran the oatmeal through a small food processer first so maybe that made a difference.c5afwife2009-11-19 08:57:15
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