Baby bottles

juharden

Hello everyone!  I've been checking out posts off and on for quite some time and figured I would go ahead introduce myself. : ) I'm due April 15th and I'm having boy and girl twins.  I plan on breastfeeding the babies as well as expressing milk with the possibility of supplementing with formula if necessary.  I want to get them used to the breast and bottle since I will be going back to work a couple months after they are born.  Does anyone have any recommendations for a good bottle?  I'm hoping to minimize nipple confusion as much as possible. 

 Thanks!

mbjmaybebaby

Dr Brown's...get the dishwasher baskets and formula pitchers as well (bottle warmer if you can but it's pricey), they make life a lot easier.  Just a suggestion, don't buy many 4 oz. bottles because they won't use them for long.  The 8 oz bottles are much more feasible. 

bellasmom27

Medela bottles! I also have the medela breast pump which I can pump into the bottles directly without making any mess or transferring milk to another bottle or container, pump, close bottle and freeze. I also got the plastic baggies for storage as well. I love the medela bottles, we have tried everything else under the sun and didn't like it. And although some people like dr. Brown's it's a PITA to wash them and it takes forever to put them together and it's like a whole project it's annoying.

CV2011

Medela bottles are awesome! We used them but then we had reflux issues and switched to dr browns...they are a pain to wash and put together but you get so used to it, it's really not that big of a deal..if you don't have to deal with gas and constant spit up I would def stick with the medela!

juharden

thank you everybody!  I'm curious, were you able to successfully breast and bottle feed at the same time? 

BabyMama11

I used BreastFlow bottles by The First Years. It simulates the compression suction action of nursing. I breastfed my first for 14 months. She began taking the bottle at about 4 weeks to get her used to it before I went back to work at 8 weeks. She had no problems with nipple confusion.