Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Sensitive Tummy Bottle

So I'm sure you all know that Evangeline is breastfed, I've tried to give her bottles of pumped milk and none of them have worked. She just wouldn't take them. I had the same problem with Tabitha. With Tabitha I just gave up trying to give her pumped milk in a bottle. She would take water out of one kind of bottle but not milk. Evangeline has been shaping up to be the same way. I've tried 5 different bottles with her. Only one worked somewhat ok. It still leaked like crazy and she barely got anything out of it. 
I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what bottle would work and I was tired of spending a small fortune on different bottles. Thats where Tommee Tippee comes in. 

The Awesome people at Tommee Tippee sent me a 3 pack of Sensitive Tummy Closer to Nature bottles. First of all, IT WORKED! Ahhhhhh! She took the bottle and did so with such gusto! She let me and Morgen give her the bottle. There was some initial drool issues, but no spit up, no pushing it away. She was all over that bottle! Some of the great features I am loving about these bottles: They have a super sensitive anti-colic vent tube that provides optimum venting during feeding to help reduce colic and discomfort,  a heat sensing tube shows when milk is a safe temperature, blue is safe to feed, pink means milk is too warm. The bottles come with a slow flow non-vented nibble designed especially for this bottle to prevent air and vacuum build up. The nipple mimics a natural feel, flex and movement of breastfeeding, which is probably why this has been the only bottle that has worked for Evangeline. This bottle allows for easy transition from breast to bottle and back, and it has a wide neck nipple for easier latch on. The bottle is for babies with extra sensitive tummies, suffering from excessive spit up, fussiness and gas, like Evangeline and her reflux. 

 

As you can see Evangeline is a big fan! 

I love these bottles. They works AMAZINGLY! I've used Tommee Tippee products before with Tabitha, I didn't find out about them until she had already started using sippy cups, and oh the horror of sippy cups before I found Tommee Tippee. Tabitha used like a million different kinds till I found them. Tommee Tippee are the only binkies that either of my girls will take. I am so seriously sold on everything Tommee Tippee that I can not wait to try some of their other awesome products. I will be definitely be picking up some of the Chewthers for Eva next week, and I am so excited that I finally found a bottle that she would take. 


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I received a box of 3 sensitive tummy bottles from Tommee Tippee for free for the purpose of this review. Regardless I would never recommend any product that I would not personally use. 

Summer Blog Challenge 26-31

So I'm pretty behind on my summer blog challenge posts, I've just been swamped lately so i'm gonna try to bang out all my over due ones in one post tonight! Ready?

Day 26  What does your significant other do that makes your heart melt? 
Before having kids, I probably would have said that it was how Morgen is always doing little things, like slipping a love note on my front seat or picking a flower on his way home. He still does those things and I still love those things, but whats more heart melt worthy is how amazing he is with the girls. When Tabitha wants to play tea party, or dress up he is right there doing what she wants, but he is also amazing at teaching our girls the right thing to do . I love when he come home at night and Tabitha yells "Daddy! Your back!" and runs and gives him a hug and the first thing he does is cover her in hugs and kisses. Melts my heart every time.

Day 27 What's the best gift you've ever received?
The best gift I ever received? My two beautiful girls! Without a doubt. We waited so long for them, and I couldn't have imagined any more amazing girls.

Tabitha and her HUGE cheeks!

Eva ever the cuddlier baby!

My two sweet girls

Day 28 How do you do your laundry?? Give your laundry tricks.

   We make our own laundry soap (Via Tipnut)

1 quart Water (boiling)
2 cups Bar soap (grated)
2 cups Borax
2 cups Washing Soda

• Add finely grated bar soap to the boiling water and stir until soap is melted. You can keep on low heat until melted.
• Pour the soapy water mixture into a large, clean pail and add the Borax and Washing Soda. Stir well until all is dissolved.
• Add 2 gallons of water, stir until well mixed.
• Cover pail and use 1/4 cup for each load of laundry. Stir the soap each time you use it (will gel).

I use this for everyday laundry and wash on cold with an extra rinse then dry in the dryer. I also throw in a scoop of sun oxyclean.

For Cloth Diapers I use Rockin Green. I do a cold rinse with no detergent. A hot wash with two scoops of hard rock detergent and every 3 loads I do a scoop of calgon because we have really hard water. Then I do two rinse cycles, one hot and one cold. Then I line dry my diapers and throw the inserts and wipes in the dryer. 

Day 29 Write a "How To" post
I'm working on this one and will post it soon.

Day 30 Post a photo of an outfit that either is your style or you wish was your style.

These are the kinds of dresses I love, and I actually have a few this style but they are kind of hard to nurse in so I don't wear them often.

 

More often than not, I wear a skirt with a camisole and a cardigan. 

Day 31 Talk about something eco friendly that you already do.


Some of the Ecofriendly things we already do are:

• Cloth Diapering
• Recycling
• Buying used clothes and toys rather than new
• Walk as much as we can rather than drive
• repurpose whatever we can. Usually clothes.

Summer blog Challenge day 11

Best day of your life.
Its hard for me to choose just one day, so I won't. Instead I will choose 3.

This is from our wedding day. November 15th 2003. We were married in the Oakland LDS Temple.

April 6, 2009. Tabitha's birthday. Her birth was not good, but that didn't matter. She was all we had wanted for so long that even though her birth wasn't the best experience, just having her with us finally was the best feeling in the world. A part of me was missing until I had her. 

                                    

 January 26, 2012. Evangeline's birth. Her birth was calm, and I got to hold her fairly soon after. I recovered much faster with Eva than Tabitha and her birth while not what I had pictured at first was perfect, we were both healthy and happy. I wouldn't change it for the world. Eva was a piece of me I didn't know was missing and my life wouldn't be complete without her.