Leaking Haberman feeder
Tue, 05/12/2006 - 14:17 — jarret
We use a Haberman feeder by Medela for our son but it leaks like a sieve - our apartment is beginning to look like a Pigeon coop. I've sent 2 e-mails to Medela but have had no response. Is there any way to solve this problem?
Many thanks
J
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Limited solution
Hi Jarret,
there is a solution which is only partially succesful. If you have a look at the valve (the little plastic tab which sits up against the teat inside the main ring), you'll notice that there is a little groove - this is where air is let back into the bottle and if you align this in such a way that it spends most of its time at the top then there should be less leakage. The best way to do this is to align it with the setting your child uses for feeding as that setting is held topmost during feeding.
Hope that helps. If not, let me know and I can possibly take some photos to better explain it.
I forgot to ask
does anyone here use bottles other than the Haberman Feeder and if so, are they working for you?
That worked, sort of
but it still leaks... just not as badly. You'd think they could invent a real leak-proof bottle. Disappointing that they never responded to Jarret's e-mail
Habbermans leaking
We just put away the last habberman because our Embree just turned one. She was born with a complete unilaterial cleft lip and palate. Two things I learned: the milk you put in the bottle HAS to be room tempture not warm at all or it will leak and it's best to use a medela bottle with the nipple. We used Gerber bottle's. I know this was posted a while ago so I hope this helps.
Different Bottles
We also use the Gerber 8 ounce bottles and have less leakage and most times none at all. The Medela bottles didn't leak either, but those 5 ounce bottles were useless once our daughter started eating more per feeding. We tried many different brands of bottles before settling with the Gerbers.
Do you have a website for the Gerber bottles?
I've had a hunt around but can't find the bottle you might be talking about.
On a slightly different note, our kid's now 15 months old and despite having had his palate successfully repaired he still won't user any other bottle - is that normal?