Community› The Bump Message Boards› 3rd Trimester
3rd Trimester
New Discussion

What size bottles are you supposed to have?

J+MSJ+MS member
in 3rd Trimester
For a newborn anyway. I keep finding conflicted information. I plan on BF'ing but I still need bottles. Any advice?
"Seriously, mommy forum people are some crazy ass bitches." New Year New You
Report Reply to Post

Re: What size bottles are you supposed to have?

  • LadyDelilahLadyDelilah member

    the four or five oz ones are fine. Honestly when we recieved DN we thought since she was FF she would need huge bottles of it and we wasted so much money on number one 9 oz bottles, and number two formula. DH would make her a whole bottle and she would eat four ounces or five ounces at a time at two months old and call it a day.

    That being said I am BFing this LO and all we have are the born free 5oz bottles :D HTH

    photo b6d12d4a-3c41-4686-a0af-8cf854f979e4_zpsffdadc4c.jpg Pregnancy Ticker Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker
    Report Reply
  • Loading the player...
  • happy-honeyhappy-honey
    We started with the Playtex drop-in 4oz bottles, they worked great and lasted us awhile.
    Report Reply
  • Danif0712Danif0712
    I like the 4 oz playtex vent air....
    Report Reply
  • swedish-fishswedish-fish
    With DD, we had a mix of 5 oz and 8 oz and almost exclusively used the 5 oz.  DD was more of a frequent snacker than a big meal drinker, though.  I don't think she ever drank more than 5 oz at a time. 
    Report Reply
  • drewiekcdrewiekc
    We have various brands of 4-5oz bottles to use until we figure out what we/she likes.  Then we'll buy bigger ones as needed.
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
    Report Reply
  • LCB34LCB34 member

    We have a combo of the smaller and larger sized Tommee Tippee.

    The smaller ones are much easier in the beginning, at least for us, since we are tracking feeding amounts - it is easier to see if she ate 1.5-2 ounces on the smaller bottles.

    However, now that Miss Piggy is consistently gobbling 3.5 ounces a feeding, we use whatever size we get our hands on first.

    But, I hear that it is nice to go back to the smaller bottles once the baby starts to hold their own bottle since it is smaller/ easier to hold up.

     

    Report Reply
  • CourtneyR2NCourtneyR2N member
    No personal experience here, but from what my experienced mother friends told me, 4oz will fit in an 8oz bottle just fine.  You use the 4oz size for such a short period of time it is really a waste of money.
    Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker
    Report Reply
This discussion has been closed.
Choose Another Board
Search Boards
"
"