[Solved] new equipment

Hi Tommy

Just a little FYI. We are in the process of setting up a short survey for a company who want to touch base with lots of our dads. The reason I mention it is because dads who fill in the survey will be entered into a draw to win some great baby kit. Think exactly what is being discussed but have heard words like High Chair and Baby Car Seat buzzing around!! You might be interested!!!! 😀

Welcome to DadTalk by the way and congrats too.

When J and H arrived we used all sorts of cups, teats, dummies etc and it boils down to personal preference. We spent a lot of dosh on a particular brand favourite cup only to find that for ours a Supermarket cup worked out best.

Question on the bottle aspect, are you going straight to bottle and bypassing Breast? I would personally suggest giving breast a go first (the baby not you 😉 that is)

Re dummies, we used them from a High Street brand coz we got through ALOT, but our dentist was always verbally disapproving and J who is now 7 did end up with a slight bite issue!

When is bump due?

Hi there

Think the decision of bottle vs breast is a whole other issue and not one for this post.

We used Avent bottles for both our boys and they were fantastic - would certainly recommend them.
As for using certain brands think baby will eat from anything if he/she is hungry!!

As for dummies we used anything and everything - usually having three or four on the go!!!

I used avent bottles years ago when mine were young, and they were brilliant. Used shaped dummies (supposedly better for teeth development) but I'd use them for the shortest time possible, if at all.

Hi Tommy C,

Congratulations!! Buying in the things for the baby was one of the fun memories I have while were awaiting the arrival of our babies. I hope everything is going well & you find this DadTalk site helpful on your journey.

I also used Advent bottles for the different stages. I'm sure Tommy Tippee would offer the different stage cups like Advent did. I liked the advent ones because you could keep all the same bottles from 0-2 yrs & just change the bottle tops as they grow older. I know when mine got to around 9-12 months they had a sippy cup type top that you could put on a bottle & it was made of white, soft rubber, great for the teething stage as they love to gum & chew these kind of teats.

Dummy wise, we found the best thing was to give it to them if they were a sucky baby, but we found a good age to start taking it away was 9 months. That's after 2 children who had them until they were 4!! Our next 2 were fine without them by 10 months.

Hope it helps & look forward to hearing how you get on. It's a fun time & I hope you enjoy getting ready!

Springchicken 😀

I may have mentioned this before - if so apologies - but when my son was young and we wanted to stop him from using a dummy, we found he'd get hysterical if we took his dummy away, so I put Nilbite (the stuff you paint on your nails to stop you biting them) on the dummy. The look on his face was quite comical, but it meant that even though he had his dummy in his hand, he didn't want to put it in his mouth and after a couple of days, didn't want it at all.

Talk about a little drastic actd!! What would you have done if he had picked his nose!!!!!

We got our youngest to give up his dummy by saying that Father Xmas collected them in return for presents - he gave it up happily!!

We told our kids that Santa took the dummies to kids in the developing world that didn't have one........