EBF looking for bottle care advice

I have a few questions on baby bottles…I breast feed but express enough for one bottle a day, which baby gets at night as part of the bedtime routine. We have 3-4 bottles in rotation, depending on if I’ve needed to pump more in the day or not, but generally there’s always one in the fridge. My questions are… 1) do I ever need to worry about increasing the teat size for a breast fed baby? She’s 12 weeks old 2) do bottles/teats deteriorate? I’ve been using the same 3 bottles since birth, but unsure if I should be replacing these at all? As I said, she goes through one bottle a day on average 3) can you use anti-colic bottles on a non-colic baby? I’ve got a few anti-colic bottles that I’ve never used. Unsure what the difference is in there (aside from what I can see visually) but if I do need to switch out/update my bottles, it’d be good to get these used Thanks!

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I have always formula fed. My LO is 7 months now. Teat sizes - they will tell you when they are ready to change teat sizes. They will get really frustrated drinking the milk generally speaking - crying, refusing, getting bored, falling asleep etc. I have the same bottles now as we did when he was born. Just look put for signs of wear and tear and replace as needs be. Teats should be changed every 3 months as far as I'm aware. We've always used anti colic bottles. It takes the air out the bottle to stop the getting colic so are a preventative rather than a treatment if that makes sense x

Following as would like to know if you change teat size if still also breastfeeding. If you increase size, wouldn't that mean baby could possible turn breast away ?

I continued with 0 or 1 teats with breast milk until my LO was transitioning onto whole milk and never had any issues. I beileve the test change size is only for formula

I've read that bf babies don't need to change teat size, I think your baby will tell you if it's not working for them. My son is 8 months and rarely uses bottles as well I have only gotten rid of a few due to discoloration the others are nearly perfect looking I've also used anti colic for my son it just reduces the air they take in.

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