The
young parents of today have a very
strong recollection of certain objects
in their childhood: little cola bottle
sweets, cola-pops, cola ices and cola
out of glass bottles. This last item
brings back memories of how your mouth
was always puckered up tightly by the
vacuum which was created by the bottle.
Only by using a special drinking
technique and shaping your lips
carefully so as to allow air to flow
into the bottleneck and replace the
liquid consumed could you drink without
stopping from the glass bottle. Without
this trick, it sometimes felt as if the
bottle would be glued to your lips
forever and ever!
Exactly the same thing happens to a baby
who is drinking from its bottle, as no
baby can master this technique, even if
our little ones are often are capable of
much more than we believe is possible.
And even the very small hole in the teat
cannot help a baby to learn this
technique.
Babies have to learn a very different
drinking technique at the bottle than
they use at the breast. They often have
to pause when the bottle teat collapses,
which causes them to ingest air, and
increases their risk of painful colic.
We
have developed something which will make
bottle feeding easier for you and your
baby. One could simply call it a teat,
but we think it is much more than that!
It is an Ultivent Softflow!
The Softflow allows your baby to strip
the milk from the bottle in a similar
way to breastfeeding, keeping the
mother’s breast as the perfect example
of feeding. The Softflow does not
collapse, as it works in harmony with
the smooth flowing base vent to give
baby a pleasant and uninterrupted feed.
Please always make sure that you use a
teat with a very small hole when
alternating between bottle and breast
feeding, and ensure that the quantity of
mothers’ milk in the bottle
corresponds to the frequency and
duration of feeding at the breast. The
allure of feeding creates more milk.
