Best baby bottle

alysonmcc · December 2012

We are having baby#2 in May and I used NUK bottles for my first. I only nursed him for 3 months due to PPD, but I really want to breastfeed as long as possible this time, but I also know I will want DH to feed the baby sometimes so I can have a break. What bottles do you all recommend? I was thinking glass, but I am a little worried about them with a 2 1/2 year old around who I am sure will want to help feeding his little sister.

Lynnette171 · December 2012

We use lifefactory bottles. They are pricey, but their sleeves are awesome (I have dropped them from 4 feet onto concrete and they haven't broken- and i've done this more than once so it wasn't a fluke!). If you buy them at drugstore.com, they are only $12.99 each instead of $15, AND they are buy 1, get 1 50% off.

I did Dr. brown's glass, but the sleeves were hard to find and expensive, plus they have way too many parts to wash. We also tried the pura stainless steel bottles, but LO has feeding issues and the nipples were too fast of a flow for him.

Both the lifefactory and the pura bottles also convert to sippys.

cosmicunicorn · December 2012

When I pumped my son used the 5oz glass bottles by born free and they were perfect. I will be using them again.

grangerize · December 2012

I have two glass lifefactory and one glass born free bottle and really do love them all! I guess that I would suggest the lifefactory because they convert into a sippy later on... I've never had any breakage issues. They are a bit more, but since I bf, I don't need a ton of bottles on hand. Just a couple for her days at daycare!

jussagirl02 · December 2012

We use the 5 oz glass Dr Browns bottles. We started with the glass Advent bottles but switched to Dr Browns on recommendation from our LC.

shibby00 · December 2012

We used the glass evenflo, too. They were great and only one broke in 15 months.

zellerwallacebaby · December 2012

we used all of the above.

at one year (we were late) born free were great because I was able to get sippy inserts and didn't have to change anything else.

in the beginning we used born free glass because of gas/colic issues and it helped so much.

i often pumped into the evenflo glass because they were cheaper (and LO didn't latch so i pumped up to 8 times a day at one point.)

early on we used some of the gerber ready-made glass bottles (2.5 oz), LO hated the formula, but after we used the bottles, they worked with the evenflo tops, also worked with my pump if i was all out of everything else.

we have a couple of the silicone sleeves but lately i've been using toddler socks that are still too big for LO.

we've never had a break while LO was using it, but have probably lost 10 along the way from clumsy washing, occasionally rushing to pack up and dropping, oops. the born free seem a little thicker to me and while we really have only been using them recently we haven't had one break. one tip, if you're sterilizing in pot, only put a couple in at a time, and try to put things like inserts and nipples in too so they don't clink together, we had some chips out of the necks and i think that weakened them and eventually caused other breaks. same for soaking in the dishpan.

good luck

L0L0 · January 2013

We use evenflo glass for pumping and feeding, and we just use the nipples that they came with. No breaks or cracks in 8 months of heavy use even when I've dropped them on our wood floor.

S & R + r · January 2013

Lifefactory Glass Baby Bottles! They come with a rubbery sleeve to protect them from breaking as well. We also like the Pure Kiki Stainless Steel bottle! Although the flow was a little too fast at first.