NUK Perfect Match Bottles Killing my Supply - Please Help!
Baby is 10 weeks and primarily breast fed. He would get one bottle at night and I would pump. When baby was first born we used Comotomo bottles but latch seemed chompy so we looked into other options and landed on NUK Perfect Match. We got the slowest flow and things seemed to be great. Well, over the last month and a half baby has been slowly been refusing the breast more and more, getting so irate in the evenings at the slower milk flow that he won’t nurse at all. We’re at the point he only will nurse middle of the night and morning when flow is strong.
My supply when pumping is still good though it is starting to decline due to all the missed nursing sessions and I couldn’t figure out why this all started. Today I took both bottle nipples and compared flow rate. The comotomo has one “stream” and the NUK has 3 when I examined them. I never noticed the difference because my partner was the one doing all the bottle feeds in the beginning!
So I think that baby is now used to a fast flow and is on a nursing strike and I’m so frustrated being stuck pumping all day. Does anyone have suggestions for nipples that match the shape of the NUK while also being a much slower flow?
Posted Jul 9, 2025, 4:17 AM UTC