Consider Level 3 if your baby is sitting up, if they are eating solid foods, or if their Healthcare Professional has recommended thickening their milk. It is extra soft thanks to technology designed by the MAM Design Studio for MAM baby feeding bottles. Consider Level 2 if your baby is accepting early solid foods, or if their Healthcare Professional has recommended thickening their milk.

This will ensure that baby makes the perfect transition from breastfeeding or bottle feeding to independent drinking. We would like to keep in touch with you about our services, support, events, campaigns, and fundraising. Knowing when to move to the next teat level is an important – and sometimes confusing – part of a comfortable and happy feeding experience for you and your baby.

Thats why all MAM silicone soothers, bottles and nipple shields (for short-term breastfeeding help) are equipped with the Skin Soft Teat.

If you are exclusively bottle feeding your baby, whether formula or expressed breastmilk, you might want around four to six bottles and teats to get you started. Comfort for your baby is vital, and our baby feeding bottles feature the MAM SkinSoft teat, which has a 94% acceptance rate*. This might make your baby cough or splutter, or struggle to keep up with the flow of milk so it dribbles to the side of their mouth. Before sterilising, all bottles and teats need to be washed, either by hand or in the dishwasher (NHS, 2018). These efforts have now been formally recognised by the European Commission, which presented MAM with the prestigious EU PRODUCT SAFETY AWARD 2019.The MAM Teat is easily accepted by 94%* of babies thanks to its SkinSoft™ silicone surface and its unique flat shape, which feel so familiar to babies. All Tommee Tippee bottles come with a slow flow teat, designed to suit a newborn baby to help them get used to drinking milk from a bottle. Simply check the teat each time you are about to use the bottle – especially when baby already has teeth – and replace it when the first signs of damage or weak points become apparent. It’s also recommended that babies stop drinking from bottles with teats by the time they are one year old as drinking through a teat leaves the teeth coated in milk and can lead to tooth decay (NHS Choices, 2015; Oral Health Foundation, 2017). Most baby bottles offer varying teat levels for different age ranges (usually slow flow for 0+ months, medium flow for 3+ months, and fast flow for 6+ months), meaning you can approximately judge which teat size might be the best based on your baby’s age.