how many bottles?

lindyanne

I am planning to bf/pump and feed at least for the first few months.How many bottles do you think is good to have? I got a set with 4-4oz and 6-8oz.  Do you think one more of that set is enough? Do you think I should not even bother with more 4oz ones? DS will probably be in daycare at 2 1/2 months since I went out early on bedrest. I don't know how much babies eat at what age.  TIA Sending DH shopping tomorrow at BRU for all our stuff.

rlthomas7

What kind are you using? We started with Playtex Drop-Ins, which I loved, but around 1 month we switched to Dr. Brown's for reflux issues. And many of my friends had bottles all set but had to switch to Dr. Brown's too, so I'm not alone here.

So while I'd say not to buy too many because you don't know which ones will work best for your child, you also need more than four 4-oz bottles. I'd get at least two more 4-oz.  

rsweethart

I would wait until baby arrives to buy more, some babies are very picky about the kind of bottles they will take.  Not sure when your sending your little one to daycare, but at around 3 months Savannah was eating 5 ounces every 3 hours...that being said, I don't think you need alot of 4 ounce bottles.

lindyanne

I got Dr. Brown's.  My sister swore by them and I saw how much they stopped the kids from spitting up and such.

Thanks for your input. I'll have DH grab a few more little ones and wait on getting any more bigger ones.  The ones I already bought were a box set with a bunch of different nipples and such so they were a really good deal.

Emmy323

I would definitely recommend waiting until your baby arrives. Brynne took Avent bottles for the first few weeks and spit a lot out. I thought it was just the way she ate because she did the same thing with the bottles they gave her at the NICU. She also didn't breastfeed well.

I switched her to Dr. Brown's this week and she has done wonderfully! I wish I wouldn't have wasted my $ on the 4 oz bottles as the Avent ones are really expensive.

If I were you I wouldn't buy more small bottles until you know what works for your LO.

fxz109

I also agree with previous posters to wait on buying more bottles until you know that your baby will like them.  We tried Avent, NUK, Medela, and Gerber and she spit out a lot with those nipples.  We finally started using the Playtex Drop-Ins. 

ntnylizard

FWIW, I've been told not to waste the money on the small bottles, since they're used for such a short period of time.  You can always measure less in a larger bottle, but you can't do anything with a 4 oz. bottle once baby is taking more.

We're planning on 6 Dr. Brown's 8 oz. bottles and 6 Avent 9 oz. bottles to start.  I'm not sure I subscribe to the theory that the baby will tell you what kind of bottle it likes (if he's hungry enough and I'm resolute enough, I tend to believe he'll take what I give him), but we'll be flexible and only open bottles as we use them, in case we need to return them for others.

rlthomas7

Just to clarify, it's not that the baby won't drink from different bottles (unless you've exclusively breastfed for so long that any bottle is a huge adjustment), it's that different bottles cause babies to react differently, with reflux, gas and spitting up. For us, Adam would scream like he was in pain, arch his back and just completely freak out after every bottle. When we finally figured out that this wasn't normal baby behavior, we learned it was pain from gas and reflux, both of which the Dr. Brown's bottles helped to ease.

And to the original poster, it seems that most of us who switched started with something and ended with Dr. Browns. So since you're starting with Dr. Brown's, you might be safer to buy more of them at first!