Minitutu Feeding Bottles and Teats in Bangladesh

Minitutu makes baby feeding equipment — bottles in PPSU, PP and glass, teats and pacifiers in several sizes, water and milk cups, a nasal aspirator and a weaning cutlery set.

Most of it sits under Bottle Feeding. The sections below explain the three materials, the two neck sizes and the difference between a teat and a pacifier — which the product names here do not always make obvious.

Reading a Minitutu Name

Every listing carries a CB code, a capacity, and an age band. The CB code is the model number and it is the only part certain to be unique, so it is the thing to quote if you are asking for a replacement part.

The age bands are written several ways across the range — with a plus, with a dash, with a tilde — but they mean the same thing. Read them as a guide to teat flow and cup handling rather than as a rule about the child.

Bottle Materials

Three materials run through the bottle range, and the choice is a genuine one:

• Minitutu Wide Neck Flip Cap PPSU Baby Feeding Bottle 300mL-CB838 (3-in-1, 9+ Months) BPA-Free Feeding Bottle
• Minitutu Wide Neck Flip Cap PPSU Baby Feeding Bottle 240mL-CB845 (3-in-1, 9+ Months) BPA-Free Feeding Bottle
• Minitutu Wide Neck Flip Top PPSU Baby Bottle 300mL-CB846 (3-in-1, 9+ Months) BPA-Free Feeding Bottle
• Minitutu PPSU Wide Mouth Feeding Bottle CB834-1 for 1+ Months 160ml

What PPSU is

PPSU is a high-temperature plastic. It takes repeated sterilising and boiling water without clouding or warping, which ordinary plastic does not, and it is lighter than glass.

That is what it is for: a bottle that will be sterilised daily for a year. It costs more than PP and the amber tint it often has is the material rather than a stain.

Glass, and when it makes sense

The glass bottles cover the newborn sizes:

• Minitutu Newborn Baby Glass Feeding Bottle CB535 White for 0+ Months 80ml
• Minitutu Wide Neck Glass Baby Bottle White for 0+ Months 80ml (CB528)
• Minitutu Wide Neck Glass Baby Bottle CB529 White for 1+ Months 160ml
• Minitutu Painted Anti-Falling Glass Bottle Orange Blue for 0+ Months 80ml (CB524-2)

Glass does not scratch, hold smells or leach anything at all, and it survives any number of sterilising cycles. It is heavy and it breaks, which is why the glass bottles here are the small newborn sizes that stay at home while a baby is being held for every feed.

PP, for the cups and later bottles

The PP items are the ones a toddler handles:

• Minitutu Wide Neck Painted Feeding Bottle PP 9+ Months 300ml - Blue CB815
• Minitutu Wide Neck Painted Feeding Bottle PP 9months+ 240ml (Model: CB814)
• Minitutu Penguin Water Cup PP 12+ Months 300ml - Red Blue CB813
• Minitutu Cartoon Owl Milk Cup PP 12+ Months 320ml - CB726

PP is light and cheap and takes being dropped. It clouds and scratches over time, and a scratched bottle should be replaced rather than scrubbed, because scratches hold bacteria a rinse will not reach.

Wide Neck and Standard Neck

The range carries both, and they are not interchangeable. A wide neck teat will not fit a standard neck bottle and the other way round, so the neck type decides which replacement teats you can buy for the next two years.

Wide neck bottles are easier to fill, easier to clean with a brush, and easier to make up powder in. Standard neck bottles are narrower and fit more sterilisers and bottle warmers. Pick one and stay with it rather than mixing both in a house.

The standard neck teats are:

• Minitutu Standard Neck Silicone Nipple for 0+ Months
• Minitutu Standard Neck Silicone Nipple for 6 Months+ (CB031)
• Minitutu Bear Wide Neck Feeding Bottle -CB807-1 (9+ Months) 240ml — wide neck, for comparison

Teats and Pacifiers Are Not the Same Thing

This is worth saying plainly, because the names in this range use both words and it is easy to order the wrong one.

A teat, sometimes written nipple, screws onto a bottle and milk passes through it. A pacifier, or soother, is a solid comforter with nothing passing through and no bottle attached. They look similar in a photograph and they do entirely different jobs.

The teats

• Minitutu Wide Mouth Lip-Protecting Nipple S-CB901 (0–3 Months) BPA-Free Baby Nipple
• Minitutu Wide Mouth 18g Lip-Protecting Nipple-M Hole CB902 (3–6 Months) BPA-Free Baby Nipple
• Minitutu Wide Mouth Lip-Protecting BPA-Free Baby Nipple L for 6–12months (CB903)
• Minitutu Pigeon 4th G Wide Mouth Frosted Nipple L CB922 (6+ Months) BPA-Free Baby Nipple

S, M and L are flow rates

The letters describe how fast milk comes through, not how big the teat is. S suits a newborn, M a baby of a few months, L an older one, and the age bands on the packs are the guide.

Held upside down, a teat should drip steadily rather than run or refuse to move. A flow too slow makes a baby work until they give up; too fast makes them gulp, splutter and take in air. Teats also soften and widen with repeated sterilising, so a flow that was right two months ago may not be now.

Pacifiers, and Using One Safely

The pacifiers in the range are:

• Minitutu Painted Silicone Pacifier for 0~6+ Months - Pink S size (CB275)
• Minitutu Painted Silicone Pacifier for 6+ Months Blue M size (CB276)
• Minitutu Pigeon 4th G Wide Mouth Frosted Pacifier S for 1+ month (CB916)

Never on a cord or a ribbon

Do not tie a pacifier around a baby’s neck, to a cot, or to clothing with anything long. Cords and ribbons around a sleeping baby are a strangulation risk, and this is the one rule about pacifiers that is absolute.

If you use a clip, use one made for the purpose with a short strap, and take it off before the baby sleeps.

Check it before every use

Pull the teat part firmly before each use. Silicone perishes, and a pacifier that tears can come apart in a baby’s mouth. Any nick, stickiness, swelling or change in colour means it goes in the bin.

Replace them every month or two regardless. Never dip one in honey, sugar or anything sweet — honey is unsafe under a year old and sugar on a soother is the most direct route there is to early tooth decay.

Cups, and Moving On From a Bottle

The cups are the step after the bottle, and both carry a 12 months and over marking.

Introducing a cup from around six months, even before a baby can manage it alone, makes the change later much easier. Prolonged bottle use past the first year is associated with tooth decay and with a child filling up on milk instead of food.

Never put a baby to bed with a bottle or a cup of milk. Milk pooling around new teeth overnight is the commonest cause of early decay, and it happens well before parents expect teeth to be at risk.

Nasal Aspirator

Minitutu Nasal Aspirator 0+ - CB403 clears a blocked nose in a baby too young to blow it.

A drop or two of saline first softens what is there and makes the suction work. Use it before a feed rather than after, since a blocked nose is most of why a baby with a cold feeds badly.

Two or three times a day is enough. Over-suctioning irritates and swells the lining, which blocks the nose further, and the tip goes to the nostril opening rather than up inside it. Wash and dry it after every use.

Weaning Cutlery and the Toothbrush

Minitutu PPSU Twisted Fork & Spoon Set 2pcs for 0+ Months -CB341 BPA-Free Baby Feeding Cutlery Set and Minitutu Round Head Toothbrush for 6-36 month Kids (CB377) cover the weaning stage.

A twisted handle is designed for a baby learning to get a spoon to their own mouth, which is a slower and messier business than feeding them is and worth allowing. Solid food starts around six months, not before.

Replacing Things on Time

Feeding equipment wears out on a schedule nobody is told about, and most of it is silicone.

What to check, and how often

Teats and pacifiers go every one to two months, sooner at any tear, stickiness or swelling. Bottles go when the plastic clouds, scratches or holds a smell. Valves and sealing rings perish before the bottle does and are the usual reason one starts leaking.

Keep the CB code from the bottle you own, because the replacement teats and rings are sold by model rather than by size alone.

Where Minitutu Sits on Arogga

The range splits by part rather than by age:

• The bottles sit under Bottles, within Bottle Feeding.
• The teats and pacifiers sit under Bottle Nipples & Accessories, and some cups under Bottle Care & Cleaning.
• The aspirator sits under Nasal Aspirators, within Baby Healthcare.
• The cutlery sits under Utensils, and the toothbrush under Baby Toothbrushes & Toothpaste.

About Minitutu

Minitutu is a baby feeding brand sold in Bangladesh, built around bottles in three materials with a matching range of teats, pacifiers and cups. Model codes run through the catalogue, which makes replacement parts easy to match once you know the code of the bottle you own.

Capacities, age bands, materials and current availability are on each product page rather than here, because they vary by model. The grid above holds the current range, model codes included.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the difference between a teat and a pacifier?

A teat screws onto a bottle and milk passes through it. A pacifier is a solid comforter with nothing passing through and no bottle attached. They look similar in a photograph and the names in this range use both words, so check which one a listing is.

2. What do S, M and L mean on a teat?

Flow rate rather than size. S suits a newborn, M a baby of a few months, L an older one. Held upside down a teat should drip steadily rather than run or refuse to move, and teats widen with repeated sterilising.

3. Is PPSU better than PP or glass?

Different rather than better. PPSU takes daily sterilising without clouding and is lighter than glass. Glass leaches nothing and never scratches but is heavy and breaks. PP is light and cheap and clouds over time.

4. Can I use a wide neck teat on a standard neck bottle?

No. They do not fit either way round, so the neck type decides which replacement teats you can buy for the next couple of years. Pick one and stay with it rather than mixing both in a house.

5. Can I hang a pacifier round my baby’s neck?

Never. Cords or ribbons around a sleeping baby are a strangulation risk. Use a purpose-made clip with a short strap if you use one at all, and take it off before the baby sleeps.

6. How often should teats and pacifiers be replaced?

Every one to two months, and sooner at any tear, stickiness, swelling or colour change. Pull the teat firmly before each use — silicone perishes, and one that tears can come apart in a baby’s mouth.

7. How do I use a nasal aspirator?

A drop or two of saline first, then suction at the nostril opening rather than up inside it, two or three times a day. Use it before a feed. Over-suctioning swells the lining and blocks the nose further.