This weekend, my baby took a bottle for the first time. This was somewhat of a big deal for me. My first two refused the bottle at four months of age. That meant that I had to be present for every feeding. Since they weaned after the age of one, that was a lot of being present. As a work-from-home mom, I had the ability to work through it. But, with each child I have sworn that the same thing won’t happen again.
Well, this time around I don’t think it will. Why? Because I just learned something. It took me three kids before I figured it out, but I discovered there are different sizes of bottle nipples. Seriously, I had no idea. I assumed one size, fits all. I didn’t know different sizes with different flows existed for different ages. As someone who has a fast and very strong letdown, that’s information that would’ve been helpful as I was trying to get my other two kids to feed from an impossibly slow bottle compared to what they were accustomed to. No wonder they got so frustrated. And so, my apologies to my first two for not having a clue. It’s amazing what you can learn even when it’s the third time around.
So I ask, what did you learn after the fact? Were there any tidbits of information you wish you would’ve known sooner?
