This anti-colic bottle finally 'cured' my baby of reflux

Judging from Lauren Indiveri's impressive bottle collection, you wouldn't think she bottle feeds her son just once per day.

"We can open our own bottle store at the rate we're going," the mum-of-two told Kidspot.

The reason why Lauren owns so many bottles is because her four-month-old son, Elian, suffers from what Lauren says is "severe reflux", and regularly vomits up all all his milk.

As such, Lauren and her husband don't really know how much milk Elian is getting per day, which prompted them to experiment with a daily bottle feed before bed.

"My son is four months old and suffers from severe reflux," Lauren explained. "He vomits a lot and especially after big feeds. I have started doing a bottle of EBM [expressed breast milk] before bed to regulate how much he eats before we lay him down for the night."

But while Elian wasn't fussy about accepting the bottle - no matter which brand - his reflux remained problematic.

"We had used some other bottle brands and he would vomit immediately after eating. And I mean a proper vomit of everything he had eaten, not just a spit up," Lauren said.
"He could cry and arch his back and just seem really unhappy."

And so Lauren kept on experimenting with more and more bottles, to no avail ... until now.

And Lauren isn't the only one singing the bottle's praises.

Anna Lin said the same anti-colic bottle is the only one she can get her daughter to accept.

"She is five-and-a-half months old. I breastfeed her but she was going through phase refusing the bottle. She did take the Tommee during a dream feed, and she took 100ml, which is actually great for her, and I found she slept much better," Anna said.

"My only issue is it's a bit more difficult to clean than other bottles, it's a bit more of a pain.

"But I will say it gets her sleeping a little bit better, which is what we strive for I suppose."

As for Lauren, while the bottle has solved Elian's reflux issues at night, she now has a whole new dilemma to face.

"He is still vomiting after breastfeeds, so I'm actually considering just doing the bottle for a while," she said.

"It’s hard - you don’t want to see your kids suffer, so yeah, I'm willing to try anything."