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Help with nipple size for bottles for 12 day old

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FTM with a lot of stress and anxiety.

My 12 day old is 5 lb and 7 oz and tiny. She is unable to latch on the breast for long and get her feed. So we are giving her the bottle.

We were initially using the 0 ( slow flow ) nipple but she had a NICU visit where the nurses mentioned that she was pulling too hard and her oxygen was tanking. So they upgraded her to 1 nipple size ( regular flow ). Her feeds doubled very well and she already gained her birth weight.

But after coming back home, while using that size 1 nipple both for my husband and I there is a lot of spillage and she coughed up about 2-3 times. This scared me.

So we got the T ( transitional nipple ) in the Dr Brown bottles. But I am worried that she is used to the higher flow that now she is not taking her full feed but she has to work for it.

What to do?

Posted Apr 3, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

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