My humble review of the Calma bottle nipple from Medela

Remember back in my breastfeeding post, I talked about wanting to try the new Calma nipple for our Medela bottles?

Well, as wonderful and high tech as it seemed, it actually has not been useful for bottle feeding Ellie so far. She will be 3 months old on Friday, and she has let us know loud and clear that this is not her bottle nipple of choice. We tried to give her one bottle of expressed breastmilk a day since she was 5 weeks old to get her used to a bit of bottle feeding early on. Once in a while she took to the Calma nipple, but mostly not.

The nipple itself it quite large, even though it can be used for little babies as it's supposed to simulate breastfeeding. At first we thought she was loving breastfeeding so much that she just didn't like a plastic nipple. However, we tried her on our other nipples for the Medela bottles, and she instantly took to them just fine. (See picture above)
Not to mention, the Calma nipples are a whopping $20 each!! Yikes.

Perhaps she will like them when she is a bit older and less picky about the size or shape of the Calma, but I can't say it's as glorious as the website makes it seem!


P.S. Soon I'd like to share my thoughts on our Ergo baby carrier and our now double Phil & Ted's stroller!