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RECOMMEND the best BOTTLE :)
Registering and looking for advice on what kind of bottles to register for my newborn...and if you use different bottles for the baby as he gets older too!
HELP? ADVICE??
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Re: RECOMMEND the best BOTTLE :)
i registered for these and we love them so far
https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3188877
My breasts!
They're not dishwasher safe but they're easy to pack around!
Charlotte has refused every bottle we've ever tried with her, but with Ava we used Playtex Drop Ins and Dr. Brown's. We used the Playtex Drop Ins at first, and she took them just fine--in fact a little too fine b/c she came to prefer the bottle over breastfeeding. I'm not sure it was "nipple confusion" that you always hear about, because she didn't have a latch problem, but I think she just preferred the faster flow of the bottle and not having to work as hard to get milk. Around 5 months she had developed reflux and was spitting up all the time, so we decided to give Dr. Brown's bottles a try and never looked back. They solved her spit up issues pretty much instantly!
My advice would be to register for 1-2 of several types of bottles (Dr. Brown's, Avent and Playtex are all really popular... and so are the regular old Evenflo and Gerber bottles that don't get much press anymore, but sometimes the old fashioned basic stuff works just fine). It really just depends. In our case, the Dr. Brown's bottles were great when Ava developed reflux but had that not happened, I would have been fine with the Playtex bottles and never would have switched. This is one of those things that there is no right answer to and there is really no "best" bottle b/c all babies are different (my two very different kids are proof of that!) and it is really what the baby prefers when it comes to this. I wouldn't register for a huge set of one kind b/c once you open them and use them, you won't be able to return them. If your baby doesn't like them, you'll be out of luck.
Also, no you don't need different bottles for when the baby gets older, just new nipples (they come in stage 1, 2, 3, etc.) but you can use the same bottles. After bottles you can go straight to sippy cups.
Are you going to BF? And if so will you be SAH or Working?
If you are going to BF and SAH you don't need that many bottles.... I have always given Noah bottles of BM every other day or so for one feeding to keep him used to them so we can go out, etc. I only have 3 bottles and that's plenty.
If you are going to FF or be working then you need more. Like ppl said it's kind of trial and error. We have Avent and he took right to it, never needed to try another. I think it's a good idea to just get/register for a 2/4 pack and then depending on what your LO prefers, then get more.
And ditto on the nipples... you don't need new bottles, just nipples that come in stages 1,2,3... Because I EBF I still use a #1 nipple for Noah when he does take a bottle so he still has to work for it and doesn't start to like a faster flow.
HTH
Married to my BFF on 8.13.05 (after dating 5 years)!
DS born 2.14.08. DD born 9.30.09.
We tried the drop-ins and Drew didn't like them very much but he loved Dr. Browns.
I have to share that I almost wrote "Dr. Franks" in this post--- which is not a kind of bottle, but instead, my favorite brand of Riesling. I would highly recommend that for everyone else!
The best bottle is the one that is best for your baby... so you don't really know that until after your LO arrives.
We used Dr. Browns and I really like them. We also used avent and he just didn't like those as much. But every kid is different. Like pp's said- buy a small # of bottles and if they don't work head to your local target, etc... to find different ones.
Oh, and you don't need level 2/3 nipples. B still takes a bottle on occasion and is using the nipples that came with the bottle.
Along the same lines, you might consider this dishwasher basket for them: https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2969609
Dr. Brown's. I agree to just open 1 pack just in-case... but it seems like those are widely accepted by babies. And I never switched nipple sizes either. And if you pump you can pump right into them with the Medela PISA. If you get them definitely get a dishwasher basket, maybe even 2 because bottle washing is pure evil. My DH and I still talk about how many bottles we had to wash because we have an old dishwasher and I was a weirdo about washing them in there until I got sick and tired of my hands being so dry and cracked (Mini vent over.
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Avents are awful. One of the babies I watch uses them and they always leak for me.
Mom to Lily Gayle 4.25.06 Charlotte Kathleen 3.27.09 Samuel Thomas ~8.4.12~
Luckily, both of my kids weren't picky and took right to Playtex drop-ins. I LOVE those bottles. So much easier!
Ditto Jenna. Logan wasn't picky and we used the drop-ins and they worked well.