Stuff about Bottles

Weights as of yesterday:

• Trevor = 10 lbs
• Charlotte = 10 lbs 13 oz
• Rebecca = 11 lbs 10 oz

Got 2 things today.

First, we got some special bottles for Charlotte. We were using Dr. Brown's Natural Flow® Bottles for the kids since they were in the NICU. C recently started randomly refusing both the breast feeding and the bottle and we were worried that she wasn't getting enough to eat. She is also the only one to have moved off the hospital pacifier and really seems to like the MAM pacifier we got her. We got her some Sassy MAM 9-oz. Bottles which have similar nipples to the pacifier. She really seems to like it, and even though she is breast feeding most of the time again, my wife is worried that she will stop soon because it's just easier and faster for her to use the bottle.

A few things about the bottle: 1) the bottle is leaky unless you are really careful about putting it together. 2) The ones we got came with level 2 nipples which means a faster flow. In fact, with warm water or milk in it, you get a solid stream like if you were to poke a hole in a water bottle. 3) The vent in the bottom doesn't seem to do anything. C still has to stop and let air back in through the nipple.

And finally, my wife read in a Parenting magazine that breast milk has antiseptic qualities which made it good for things other than feeding. Trevor has had tiny little white spots on his nose since birth and we were told they were basically newborn acne. My wife has been putting some breast milk on his nose for a few days and his nose has cleared up.