Bottles help

rcp126

Hi everyone,

  I recently registered at Babies r Us and was so overwhelmed with all the decisions to be made.  How did you know what bottle was right for your baby and is it true that if you just introduce baby to the same bottle he eventually will take it.  I registered for Avent bottles and read mixed reviews.  Any opinions please give.  thanks.

franciscaz

lol!  I was thinking about this today   I remember everyone was like "AVENT leaks" or "AVENT is the best ever".  I decided to get some of them, Ventairs, and Dr.Browns. 

I hate the extra parts in the Dr.Browns and Ventaires.   I loved the simplicity of AVENT (and the ease of going from bottle to breast feeding) and learned that if you put the top on right they work just fine.  A year later I am glad I didn't just read reviews but tried out some different brands.  That is my best advice!

SarahFin

I tried a few and then felt the guilt of using BPA bottles so I returned my Avents and DB and got Born Free bottles.  Of course now the DBs have BPA free bottles (which some people don't care about BPA anyway), but my point is that I didn't have as many choices at that time.  But DS used the medela bottles too which has a smaller nipple, and it was easy for him to go back and forth from born free (wide mouth) to the smaller Medela.

GL!

teacherjess

DO NOT REGISTER FOR BOTTLES. I made this huge, huge, huge mistake and I am still very sorry about it. I planned to breastfeed with some formula, so I registered for all this Avent stuff, bottles, nipples, bottle brushes, everything, and DD ended up with a poor suck/latch and would not take an Avent bottle to save her life. Plus, I had opened them, so then I couldn't return them.

So then I went and tried other kinds. I ended up trying Mam bottles, Adiri bottles, Playtex bottles, Playtex Drop-Ins, Evenflo bottles, Gerber bottles, Nuk bottles, generic brand bottles, you name it, we tried it. She ended up finally taking Dr. Brown's bottles and I had a cabinet full of bottles I could do nothing with. I ended up selling a bunch of them on Craigslist but I am still so sorry that I registered for all that Avent stuff and got it all ready since she never ate off an Avent bottle.

My advice? If you are planning to formula-feed, register for one Avent bottle, one Dr. Brown's bottle, and one Playtex Drop-In. All the nipples are very different and once you find one that works, send your DH out to buy more. This was, hands-down, my biggest mistake, registry-wise.

teacherjess

And yes, I suppose it's true that if you keep offering a baby a bottle, he/she will eventually take it, but until then, you have a hungry, screaming baby who won't eat. I would have sold my soul to Satan in the early days if I could have found a bottle she'd eat off, because we had to use an eyedropper to feed her. We tried every bottle multiple times. She didn't take the Dr. Brown until she was 8 days old.

slwprincess

Honestly, my kid would take anything- he was that way from the beginning.  I originally registered for Avents and we still use them sometimes.  Yes, they do sometimes leak and that drives me crazy at 3 am, but overall they are still our favorites- can't really explain why, but DH and I both prefer them and we think DS does too.  I got caught up in the BPA craze and returned most of ours in exchange for the Playtex Dropins- which we also really like.  We love that there are less pieces to clean (only the nipple and ring) and they NEVER leak.  We never needed the Dr Browns (thank god- all those pieces would drive me mad!).  My advice is to register for one kind (if I had to do it again, I'd still do the Avents) but only open up 1 box and save the receipts for all the others.  Then if your baby needs something different- take the other boxes back and try a different kind.