Medela Slow Flow BPA-Free Breastmilk Teat with 150 ml Bottle
Medela Slow Flow BPA-Free Breastmilk Teat with 150 ml Bottle – Teat with freezer and fridge safe bottle, for expressing, storing and feeding
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| Weight: | 90.7 g |
| Dimensions: | 6.86 x 6.86 x 20.32 cm; 90.72 Grams |
| Model: | 008.0124 |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Composition: | Cotton |
| Dimensions: | 6.86 x 6.86 x 20.32 cm; 90.72 Grams |
| Quantity: | 1 |
The Medela Calma Bottle is an innovative and well-designed baby bottle that is specially designed to mimic the natural breastfeeding experience. As a new parent, I was intrigued by the unique features of this bottle and decided to give it a try. After using it for a few weeks, I am impressed with its performance and would like to share my review.
First and foremost, the Calma Bottle’s standout feature is its unique feeding system that allows babies to control the flow of milk, similar to breastfeeding. This is achieved through a specialized teat that requires babies to create a vacuum and use their tongue and jaw to extract milk, just like they would during breastfeeding. This promotes a natural feeding rhythm, prevents overfeeding, and minimizes the risk of colic and reflux. I found this to be a game-changer as it helped my baby to pace her feedings and reduced the chances of her experiencing discomfort.
Another feature that I appreciate about the Calma Bottle is its high-quality construction. The bottle is made from BPA-free materials, ensuring that it is safe for my baby to use. It is also easy to clean, with only a few components that can be taken apart and cleaned separately. The bottle’s design is sleek and simple, making it easy to hold and feed my baby comfortably.
The Calma Bottle also offers excellent convenience. It is compatible with Medela breast pumps, allowing me to express milk directly into the bottle without having to transfer it to another container. This saved me time and minimized the risk of milk spillage. Additionally, the bottle comes with a protective cap that keeps the teat clean and hygienic, making it ideal for on-the-go feeding.
The only potential downside of the Calma Bottle is its price point, which is higher compared to regular baby bottles. However, considering the unique features and benefits it offers, I believe it is worth the investment for parents who are looking to replicate the breastfeeding experience for their baby or are using a Medela breast pump.
In conclusion, the Medela Calma Bottle is an excellent baby bottle that provides a natural feeding experience and promotes healthy feeding habits. Its innovative design, high-quality construction, and convenience make it a top choice for breastfeeding moms or those using a Medela breast pump. Despite its slightly higher price, I highly recommend the Medela Calma Bottle for any parent looking for a high-quality, breastfeeding-friendly baby bottle
We purchased this bottle and teat in order to provide extra feeds to our baby as she was born a little light. My wife is breast feeding and we were advised by the hospital to feed our girl with a 5ml syringe or cup. Both of which were awful and took a long time.
This bottle is great. The baby fed immediately from it. It took her a few goes before she drank at volume but we can switch between feeds from mum and feeds from dad and the bottle without any issues. This means my wife can have a break without worrying it will spoil how she feeds.
It’s great quality, clearly well designed and does the job.
Highly recommend.
I have ended up buying 5 different brands of bottles and each teat has left my baby with nipple confusion, until i found this brand. These are quite fiddly, i will admit, but they mimic breastfeed suction, i think, because baby doesn’t get confused anymore when i switch between bottle feed and breast now
Already had Medela pump and bottles so decided to give this a try. Works fairly well for my son who is predominantly breast fed with an occasional bottle. Would like it to be a little shorter as he initially gagged on it, but he got the hang of it quickly. Doesn’t allow milk to flow freely meaning the baby has more control over intake
Absolutely amazing! Over the past 2,5 months I was trying to get my baby of the breast. I’ve tried so many different bottles, but my little one didn’t like any of them and with this one finally succeeded. I’m using formula and it works perfectly fine.
I purchased this bottle as a replacement of my old one. Unfortunately after some time of using they become loose in the bottle neck on the swing Medela electric brest pump I am using it, causing problems with pumping and milk going inside the tube.
Overall in my opinion Medela calma feeding solution is one of the best on the market allowing your child suck slowly
I wish the plastic bottles are made from was little better quality.
I think even though the technology behind is great, the bottle needs to be a bit more breast like in shape to help babies. On the others hand, this requires a lot of work from the baby in terms of suction but doesn’t really feel like breast, in fact the teat is much narrower and longer. Therefore, baby gets confused and all hysterical.
I tried to use this as a first bottle (to avoid confusion) and my baby didn’t really know what to do with it as the milk doesn’t flow to the teat unless they suck ( which is the objective of the bottle anyway) so I really had to try a different bottle first so he knew what he was supposed to do. After that works well and he had no problem using both the bottle and breastfeeding
As bottles go, this is great. It isn’t age specific as the whole premise of the bottle design is that the baby’s mouth creates a vacuum and sucks out the milk at their pace, like the breast. No filling of the teat necessary like other bottles. There’s been no “nipple confusion” for breastfeeding either from my baby.
Brilliant. My baby has been so fussy with many bottles and this is her favourite out of the many we have tried, she like to have to suck it to get the milk out Through the valve and then when it comes through it flows very easy for her. She likes it a lot. The tear is fairly soft at the base where there are some balls much like milk ducts I suppose. It’s helped her to take the bottle.
These bottles are a must have when breastfeeding. But they are designed to make babies work, so they don’t get lazy at the breast, so I don’t advise them with preterm of jaundice cases, so harder to feed babies, as easily tires weaker babies and they fall asleep instead. Eventually buy them and use them later on. Anyway, these bottles are really top quality.
Good bottle/teats and supports breast feeding however very expensive and does create a lot of bubbles for the bay when drinking which in turn causes problems with wind / colic.
These bottles and teats are great, well worth the extra money!
My only criticism is the necks are a bit small for getting his formula in but I bought a food funnel to get the formula in and works perfect.
I came across the Medela Calma bottle by chance after reading about it in a breastfeeding support group. It is unique in that it only lets milk flow into the teat when baby sucks, unless they suck it stays in the bottle as it has an inner part to the teat which covers the neck of the bottle. It is almost a waterfall system, the tip of the teat isn’t closed at all, it is open about 6mm and the milk trickles down the inside of it when baby starts sucking and stops when they stop. It’s quite innovative and is said to mimic how a baby breastfeeds by doing this. Like supply and demand rather than being an instant fast flow with ordinary bottles.
My daughter took to it really well. At the time of writing she is 6 months old and it has only been necessary for three feeds in total but she has taken each one no problem. If you’re looking to purchase this to aid in your breastfeeding journey or if you intend to use it for formula feeding I highly recommend it and also to look up paced bottle feeding on youtube. There’s a wonderful video by the la leche league.
Felt like little baby gagged when the bottle was first in mouth due to very long teat but when placed at her lips she took it herself. Sounds like a lot of air is being drunk with milk so may consider changing bottles soon incase it is causing her wind. No problems with combining this bottle with breast feeding, it is clear this bottle resembles the latching for breast feeding much better than others. Instead of coming out freely the teat must be sucked to release milk so baby does not become lazy with feeding.
It separates into several pieces which makes it easy to clean well. No problems with leaks.
A tad pricey though, especially when I’d like to get a spare! Babies who are used to a more free flowing bottle might get frustrated with it I imagine.
My wife had trouble breastfeeding, so we looked for a bottle that would allow our baby son to develop his suction power. The idea behind the bottle is that it requires more suction power from baby to get to the breast milk or formulae. This could possibly help baby to develop his speech and language later, when he will need his facial muscles to form sounds. The product is pricier than much of it’s competitors, but we thought it was worth the investment. It cleans easily and after 3 months of use seems to be quite durable too. You might want to get more than one bottle to help mum sterilise the bottles whilst feeding.
lovely bottle. I was breastfeeding my baby for 4 weeks before I had to express milk due to some health issues. A friend recommend it and said with the help of this bottle you still can establish your baby breastfeeding habit while drinking from the bottle. She was absolutely right.
Although it is not cheap but benefit justify the cost. You need to be aware that you need to change it in 3 month time as the manufacturer states on the bottle. Also, by the time your baby grows he will need bigger bottle, but this is expected anyway.
Good to get breastfed baby to drink from a bottle although it took my 6 month old a little while to figure out what to do. Easy to clean. Very expensive though when you need more than 1 of them. The teat could do with being a little softer to mimic the breast a little more.
+ BPA-free
+ You can see the squirts of milk coming out of the teat as it is see through plastic
+ One size fits all so you don’t need to think about teat sizes when baby grows
+ You get two lids with these which is a bonus
+ Cleaning is a breeze as the teat falls apart into three pieces with not much nooks and crannies
– The teat is long and is designed to stick into the back of baby’s mouth. Can be quite unsettling at first
– The bottles are tall so will be a tight fit in your steam sterilizer but it just about fit into ours ( Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Electric Steriliser Kit )
– If your baby is a messy eater then don’t expect this to make a difference as it can still be messy
You can actually buy separate multi-packs of the bottle and teats (see Medela 250 ml BPA-Free Breastmilk Bottles (2-Pack) and Medela Calma Solitaire ) but when we weighed up the prices it was cheaper to buy this complete set rather than the separates.
Also, one piece of advice I’ve heard many times is that every baby is different so although this teat gets lots of positive reviews there is still a chance your baby won’t get on with it in which case you just have to try something else. It will be trial and error.
My wife and I took a while before buying a bottle, as we did not want it to interfere with breastfeeding.
Some cheaper models who let some milk drip without effort can distract baby from the breast because breastfeeding require more effort.
We have used this bottle since the baby was one week old.
THe baby is now 6 weeks old, and he keeps bottle feeding and breastfeeding at the same time.
THe only drawback is that the tit is made of 3 pieces, so cleaning it takes a bit of time.
Recommended.
We got several of these bottles as my wife was struggling to produce milk in volume when expressing, so they fulfilled several valuable purposes.
Firstly they made my wife more confident in the volume she was producing as the bottle is nicely marked in both fluid ounces and also ml.
And secondly these bottles really are the closest you can get to proper breastfeeding – our little man really had to work for his feed as the 3 way filter system emulates the breast action.
These bottles also proved invaluable as a ‘top up’ feed. If like my wife you are sometimes struggling to feed on demand and your little one is still hungry, these bottles are perfect to feed milk you have expressed earlier.
Midwives always say that breast is best, and bottles are evil, but I can say with confidence that my son had no problem going back to the breast after using the bottle – and he now uses both regularly.
Babies always prefer the breast option as they are warmer, they can hear mum’s heartbeat, and it is what they are used to, but if you need backup then these bottles are ideal.
Finally, the three way ‘Calma’ filter is easy to talk apart for sterilising, and the 150ml bottles work perfectly with the Medela Breast Pump.
I first heard about calma at a prenatal program that I have attended. I decided to buy it and I found it in a very good price at amazon.My baby is an exclusive breastfed baby and she doesn’t accept the rest of the bottles that exist in the market. So, I found the solution to my problem, when I should give her pumped breast milk. She accept calma immediately and actually she took it before the six weeks that the instructions recommend us without having any breastfeed problem or nipple confusion. Now she is five month old and she is still drinking pumped breast milk only with calma. She doesn’t like any other bottle.
This was a great bottle to help promote breastfeeding. But, once my son started teething (and thus, gnawing on the bottle), we discontinued using it. A vacuum was created between the nipple and his tongue, causing the tongue to bruise.
This bottle appears strange at first use because it has a large (pencil sized) hole at the end of the teat. Flow is controlled, not through the teat’s tip like a conventional bottle but, through a small valve between the main bottle and the teat. This means that the baby draws the milk into the teat and straight into its mouth by suction, and as soon has it stops sucking to take a pause, the milk stops. One star taken off because it has a slight tendency to block when used with thicker formula milks, (no problem with expressed milk) – this is easily cured in a couple of seconds but can be hard to notice until the baby gets frustrated.
One of our 1 month premature twins was having trouble with the breast (as he had been in an incubator for first month) and was choking with conventional tommy tippee bottles. These were the perfect solution, the baby has to work for his milk, but not too hard. A bit dribbles down his chin but no choking. Most importantly though they got his sucking technique sorted so he can now breast feed. The only slight pain is the caps (not the teat but the clear cap you put on when shaking milk or travelling) which are a fiddle to click into place.
Don’t be put off by the price as I nearly was it is well worth the money. I can get a bit of time to myself and not worry that my daughter will not take a feed when I’m gone.
I’ve read some reviews on here saying that the bottles are useless and the baby won’t be able to get milk from them. I found, as with most things you have to give it to your baby a few times before they properly get the hang of the bottles. Try asking someone else to feed them from the bottle the first few times as your baby will know you can breastfeed them if they put up a fight.
All in all, highly recommended another great product from Medela. You get what you pay for!