You can take part in the next NUK Soother Tree Charity Campaign and help someone else while breaking the soother habit. The NUK X-ray Teat was developed to make the administering of contrast materials during the x-ray examinations of babies and small children easier. The method, named after the speech therapist Beatriz Padovan, is a holistic therapy, which observes certain movement patterns of the human development process and makes the patients consciously aware of them.

The high heat-resistance means you can clean the glass baby bottles as often as you like and even boil them. Polypropylene is a translucent, synthetic material, which is used by NUK for the manufacture of BPA-free baby bottles. Through conscious breathing, sucking, chewing and swallowing, complex speech impairments can be corrected.Feeding newborns with a cleft lip or palate almost always presents its own problems: these babies find it very difficult, sometimes even impossible, to create the right type of vacuum to be able to suck. g. breathing through the mouth, problems with sucking, chewing, swallowing, speaking and facial gestures). Right after the birth you can do a lot for healthy jaw development: while breastfeeding, a child learns the right sucking-swallowing movement –the basis for later learning stages. The NUK Soother enables children to satisfy their natural sucking reflex and, at the same time, exercise their jaw muscles between meals.

Whether a natural product or a special synthetic material, all NUK Teats are soft and adapt to the inside of a child’s mouth. For the first twelve months, the risk of cot death is not only at its highest; your baby’s natural sucking reflex is also at its strongest. PC is a very versatile type of material: it is durable, heat-resistant, nearly unshatterable and transparent. If you use NUK Soothers correctly – to calm your child, to prevent thumb-sucking and to exercise the jaw intensively between meals - then the NUK Shape helps towards natural and healthy jaw development.This bottle is the ideal choice for combined feeding* as the NUK orthodontic teat simulates the shape of a mother's nipple during breastfeeding which gives baby a natural and familiar drinking sensation. Our NUK Latex Teats are regularly tested by several independent, prestigious institutes such as the Fresenius Institute and not only satisfy all legal requirements but even exceed them.

It’s best to take a little time and patiently show your baby which way round the NUK Soother goes, because only when the soother is the right way up can it do its job properly and promote development. The NUK Shape is taken from nature and so babies makes the same typical sucking, and swallowing movements as when they are breastfeeding. NUK FIRST CHOICE Teats have the same effect: this comes from having the hole on the upper side of the teat and not at the tip of the teat.Proper breastfeeding and sucking is needed for healthy mouth and jaw movement, which, in turn, is a requirement for eating and speaking. In addition, at this age, children usually want to drink on their own – and this is why we recommend using NUK Cups with drinking spouts. NUK had already dispensed with polycarbonate bottles that contained BPA long before the demand of the EU and therefore, years before the final banning, could brand its baby products as “BPA-free”.

A vent in our NUK Anti-Colic AIR SYSTEM helps prevent a vacuum building up in the bottle: your baby can drink continuously without swallowing air. NUK First Choice+ baby bottles now have a built-in Temperature Control indicator located on the bottle's graduation marks that changes colour from blue to white when the bottle's contents are too hot (above the optimal feeding temperature of 37 degrees), so you can be sure your baby's milk is always at a comfortable drinking temperature. When the bottles are scratched inside, you should replace them, as germs can settle in the scratches more easily. The neck of the teat is notably flat so that – almost like breastfeeding – a baby’s lips are able to close properly around it. Babies should always be given new soothers after they have had an infectious illness (such as a cold or throat infection) to prevent re-infection.

Such a vacuum can occur if, after boiling, the AIR SYSTEM is blocked: a vent allows air to escape from the teat part when it is pressed together by the palate. Altogether this means that the NUK First Choice Teat is particularly well accepted by babies and a combination of bottle and breastfeeding is possible without nipple confusion. The results of these studies are not conclusive and over the past months and years have been very inconsistently assessed by different institutes in various countries. Before your baby uses a new NUK Soother for the first time, you should use a gentle washing-up liquid (e. from Munich, yet some time ago she asked exactly the same question as you: here you can find the answers to new mothers’ most frequently asked questions as well as practical information and useful tips.