Calma Bottle Nipple | Baby Bottle Teat for use with Medela Collection Bottles | Made Without BPA | Air-Vent System

I have a premature son and untold latching issues. My daughter was also premature with all kinds of medical problems and even though I dont know how I did it, I pumped for 9 looooong months. My son was the complete opposite but despite my best efforts I could not tolerate pumping (even with the awesome Medela Symphony) a few weeks after he came home at a month old. I just could not stand it a second longer not to mention I was only getting around 10ml every three hours. Pure torture. So for a while, he was 100% bottle fed. There have been a LOT of latch issues with him and with the help of the medication Domperidone and sheer determination, I have been able to get my supply to come back. I still have to use the Medela Contact Breast Shields because occasionally I have to give him a bottle of formula to suppliment his voracious appetite. When he came home from the hospital, still a month before his due date, he was taking 3 oz breastmilk every three hours. He is 6 mo old (corrected) and in addition to breastmilk/formula eats around 5 oz of purees twice a day and still quite lean! In addition to latching issues, being bottle trained during 4 weeks in the NICU and his big appetite, he got use to the rapid fill-my-tummy-up-QUICK. When breastfeeding, he would stop nursing after the initial breastmilk flow and wouldnt empty the breast. This was problematic because he was not benefitting from the higher calorie hind milk. A Catch 22 because if your breasts arent emptied, they stop producing as much milk. When I saw the Calma, I was *extremely* interested. In a few short weeks I'm going to have to put him in daycare twice a week and was DREADING having the nipple confusion come back in full force. I have been in excruciating pain on several occasions these last few months and do not want to go there again. Through my efforts and extremely limiting bottle use, we are at a pretty good place and he will now mostly empty the breast. I dont want to lose that. Because of the price for just one Calma is quite high, I was leery but went ahead and bought one to give it a try because I cannot bare to go back to the horrible pain of a shallow latch that bottle use produces. I was very uneasy spending that much money because I anticipated he would reject it. From the box description, I was a little worried it would require too much sucking to get the necessary vacuum to dispense milk. I am very happy to report that he had no hesitation or problems using the Medela Calma nipple! I also anticipated him chewing on the end which is longer than usual. (He has begun to do that with regular bottle nipples.) He doesnt. In fact, I was trying to pull it out of his mouth a little in an attempt to see how this design worked. He cried the same way he does if I try to take him off my nipple and went right back to sucking and eating. The best news is that when I put him back to the breast, he latched on *immediately* to my nipple. In the past, after using a traditional nipple, it would take him approximately 20 seconds to get a good latch. The first time I used it, I tried to tighten it as I do regular nipples and it slipped off the neck of the bottle from over tightening. Gentle tightening works better from my experience so I recommend testing out a few times. The whole assembly and design is a lot different from conventional nipple units. The nipple unit has several pieces and it didnt look like the silicon nipple was going to stay in place but I had no problems with leaking. The end of the nipple is open and that completely baffled me and seemed un-breast like. I've got no idea how it works, but I'm overjoyed that it does. It is well worth the investment, especially any one who has had nipple confusion. It is a genius design! Even better....it works! I'm ordering two more Nipple only assemblies because I already have Medela bottles.

This nipple is wonderful, but you need to learn how to use it WITH your child to be effective. Our 2nd had experienced nipple confusion and we had to stop using a bottle with a typical nipple. In a typical nipple, the baby will gum at the nipple to get milk to flow, and that is different from how they draw milk from the mother's nipple. This was good for us because the demand helped my wife to finally produce enough, and then too much, milk. We bought this bottle so we didn't have to waste as much and so I could feed our daughter as well, which can be important bonding time. At first we had no success, but I had to read up and discover "the trick" to it. If the baby does not instantly receive gratification in the form of milk, it is going to seem like you are just throwing something in her face, and she will resist. Surely enough, she did resist at first and then tried to gum at it like a traditional nipple, and then she just pushed it away. So, I "primed the pump" by sucking a little of the milk into the nipple and then dripping that into my daughter's mouth. That helped her recognize what was going on and she eventually knew to suck it the same as a real nipple rather than gumming at it. Also, because it was primed, the second she began to suck, even more milk flowed into her mouth. Because it's not flesh but man-made, it took her a few tries to figure out how to fit it in correctly. Once she did, it went lightning fast. I have read other reviews that talk about this speed as a problem. All I have to do to compensate is make her stop and burp every 30 cc or so before moving on. We have no waste. Occasionally she may lose the fit and I will have to squirt a little for her by gently squeezing, but this helps. What I love most is that the sucking motion looks more like how she sucks when breastfeeding instead of having to gum the nipple. Having gone through the stress of having to correct nipple confusion, I can tell you that this nipple is a wonderful 2nd best option to breastfeeding. Like all good things, you have to learn how to use it properly before really getting the benefit.

Es para bebes en lactancia materna. Ha funcionado de manera sensacional, sale la cantidad de leche que succione el bebe, y al estar en lactancia ayuda a que no sienta tanta diferencia en cuanto a la lactancia directa, asi que cuando no esta mama pues es la tetina o mamila que uso para darle al bebe la leche.

This nipple is a blessing. My baby is on BF as well as Formula and this makes the switching easy. I use these bottles to feed Formula. I have 2 sets of Calma Nipples (one of the 2 came with the breast pump) and am using 4 5oz Medela bottles for my 2.5 month old baby. Cleaning is easy. Wash milk residue with plain water then wash with warm soapy water. Rinse and sterilise. You'll need a brush only for the bottle. Putting together the nipple can be a task in the beginning but once you get the hang of it, it's great. You need to pull out the nipple from the baby's mouth, a couple of times at the beginning of the feed coz they suck harder when they're super hungry and that will leave them with more milk than they can take and could lead to choking. After a few suckles, he will adjust his speed.

Muy buena mamila para cuando los bebés están pequeños

Mi bebé toma pecho pero hay veces que tengo que darle mamila así que este producto es buena opción pues solo sale si el bebé succiona. La primera vez que lo usamos si salía más flujo que en el pecho y el bebé medio se ahogaba, pero después fuimos mejorando la técnica (tanto el bebé como nosotros al dársela), por ejemplo, no inclinamos tanto la mamila y así se regula aún más el flujo. Vale mucho la pena si buscas que tu bebé no deje de succionar aunque tome biberón.

Excelente producto