How Many Bottles?

LadyDelilah · May 2010

How many bottles weather youre nursing or not do you plan on owning? What did you register for or end up getting after LO was here

TIA

MrsTotty · May 2010

It really depends on how much you hate washing bottles, lol. If you're going to be bottle feeding from a young age ... your baby is going to go through a LOT of bottles each day. You register/buy according to what you can afford, and how often you mind doing a load of dishes

LadyDelilah · May 2010

I was told I have too many... I have 15 9oz and 20 4oz... BUT I plan on bottle feeding so I didnt think it was too many

lzybeanie · May 2010

I nursed for the first 6 weeks, but knew I'd be supplementing. We registered for 4, 4 oz. bottles and 8, 9 oz. bottles. I figured I'd use less in the beginning and if I really needed to, I could always use the bigger bottles for the smaller amounts. We used Avent.

Once we were almost fully on formula, we hand-washed all used bottles almost every night, but there were usually one or two leftover from the day that didn't get used. Whenever we would run the dishwasher, we would throw them in there. That was usually once a week.

MrsTotty · May 2010

DaniLorello:
I was told I have too many... I have 15 9oz and 20 4oz... BUT I plan on bottle feeding so I didnt think it was too many

I definitely don't think you need 20 4oz bottles. 8 would probably do it. I would rather have more 9oz since you'll use those for a longer period of time.

LadyDelilah · May 2010

MrsTotty:

DaniLorello:
I was told I have too many... I have 15 9oz and 20 4oz... BUT I plan on bottle feeding so I didnt think it was too many

I definitely don't think you need 20 4oz bottles. 8 would probably do it. I would rather have more 9oz since you'll use those for a longer period of time.

we are using the born free glass ones so I sent out an apb for them if they were on sale so of course every one got like one pack and it just added up... I guess Im set then

samk213 · May 2010

We are bottle feeding. I have 13 total, I figure with feedings every 2-3 hours this is a good amount in rotation. I have 4 of the 4oz and 9 of the 8oz. I got more of the 8oz since I'll use those longer.

TNTB9405 · May 2010

Personally if I had to do it over again, I wouldn't get any of the smaller 4oz bottles b/c they only need them for a short time anyway. I would have just put the 4oz in the 8oz bottle. With that said we did have about 6 of the 4oz and 7 of the 8oz. We did the drop-ins and my daughter was taking 6 4oz bottles per day so I would just fill 6 bottles up with water so they were ready to go when she needed them and then we dropped to 4 6oz bottles and I did the same thing. If you wanted to stock up on the 8oz bottles you could try to exchange (if they are unopened) and get the bigger ones. Good luck with the rest of your pregnancy!!

sleepyocean · May 2010

I pumped for DS and eventually switched to formula, but suffice it to say he ate from bottles exclusively. We found 8 bottles to be the perfect number for us, we only had to wash once a day. We'll have 8 bottles this time as well!

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