by Maggie Downs posted in Life

Until I became a mom, I thought all bottles were the same. Container for liquid, put a nipple on it, boom. You're all set, right"
Wrong.
I spent countless hours trying to figure out the right bottle for my fussy, gassy baby. After reading hundreds of reviews and buying several types of bottles my son refused, I finally found something that worked ? but I lost a lot of time and money in the process.

 
Tiffany Page knows that scenario well, because she lived it too. Page is the creator of my local moms' group, Real Moms of the Coachella Valley, based in the Greater Palm Springs area, and she was also plagued by bottle problems.
As the mom of a 26-week premature child, Page never thought she would be able to breastfeed. But her baby, Henry, took to nursing right away. However, to supplement his diet, Henry also had to drink one bottle of a special, high-calorie formula each day. Even though Henry initially took the NICU bottles just fine, after about a week of nursing, he began to refuse bottles. ?He would gag, chew on the nipple, and cry,? Page said. "Mama all the way."
She tried just about everything on the market, ending up with practically more bottles than a Babies R Us.
"Ten months, several tears and syringe feedings later, he finally took to a Tommee Tippee bottle," Page said. "I couldn't believe that I had spent $10, $20, and even $30 on one bottle, and he chooses the one we had started with.?
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