Is it weird? Nipple size

[wrennelson143]

Our 9 week old girl is in Dr Brown size P nipples. She’s eating in a good time and shows no distress. Only issue is that at night she falls asleep during feeding, but I think that’s more a sleepy girly thing than a nipple issue. I thought it was odd she was still on the ‘preemie’ nipple, so we tried a 1 and it seemed way too fast for her. She was spitting most of it out and seems to be struggling.

Is it weird that she’s still on the P at 9 weeks? Should I be concerned about something else, or if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?

TIA

 

[neuroclusterbrain]

@wrennelson143 All babies are different so definitely not weird! But if you’re wanting to try to move up there is actually a “T” nipple size (means “transition”) between premie and 1. We were on the T size for months!

 

[wrennelson143]

@neuroclusterbrain Thank you! That’s helpful!

 

[syderic]

@wrennelson143 Seconding this! My baby was on P for weeks, then T, and only reached 1 around 3 months.

 

[futuredoctorofgod]

@wrennelson143 We have a 15 week old and she still uses the Dr browns preemie nipples

 

[mak33]

@wrennelson143 Dr brown seems to go WAY faster than Avent (which my baby uses). My boy is on size 2 for Avent and we tried a size 1 dr brown and he was choking

 

[messerve]

@wrennelson143 There’s an inbetween size you can try!
Size T (transition I assume)

Dr. Brown's Natural Flow Baby Bottle Narrow Nipple - Transition Level T - 6pk - 0m+ https://a.co/d/1TULfdp