Pacifiers and Bottles

kweetkiki · February 2014

My husband's cousin recommends to get about 4 pacifiers beforehand of the same brand as the bottle (again she recommends just getting a 4 pack of 4 oz bottles to start with) saying that the baby will like if there's less difference. Is that true ? One brand better than the other ?

danabsd · February 2014

Will you be going straight to formula? I registered for and got a bunch of different bottles on recommendation. My kid was fine with the Medela ones that came with my pump. I never needed them and wish I hadn't opened them. We tried 2 different pacifiers. She liked the Soothie one, which they'll give you free in the hospital. We used Soothies from 3 weeks - 6 months before we pulled it.

motoLyn · February 2014

Many people have told me not to stock up on too many of one brand as baby may or may not like it and we end up having to buy a different brand. I guess once baby settles in with a particular brand and pacifier you could stock up on some more. As for one brand better than the other. I think that's a mom preference. I have friends that swear by Br. brown and others who are advent advocates, I registered for Born Free.

jenb_99 · February 2014

Nah, brand doesn't matter. Your LO will like what s/he likes, and there probably won't be any rhyme or reason to it. DS was much pickier about pacifiers than bottle nipples. He'd drink from pretty much any nipple we stuck in his mouth (except mine, the little toot) but he only liked Playtex Binky "just like Mom" (round, not ortho) pacifiers.

I do recognize the irony there. lol

MrsT2008 · February 2014

Matching brands doesn't really mean much. We used Dr Browns bottles and Nuk pacifiers (with the orthodontic nipples) and we BFed for 8 months and never had any issues with any sort of confusion. I read somewhere once that there are all these warnings about nipple confusion but that it's actually really really rare.

spacepotatoes · February 2014

We registered for the Avent starter kit, which comes with several bottles and two of their pacifiers, which I've heard really good things about. I have a couple of other brand bottles that I got as free samples as well. I'm not sure what we're doing about additional pacifiers yet but I've heard the same as PPs, not to got all of them in just one type because you never know what your baby will like.

kweetkiki · February 2014

Thanks ladies..I will try to BF as long as possible...but will have to start bottle feeding before I go back to work ...so wanted to get atleast a pair (such that I don't have to run around last minute)

rainydayluck · February 2014

I wouldn't stock up. We bought a a bunch that were the same brand as the bottles and DD never took any except the kind they had at the hospital.

MamaLlama14 · February 2014

Do you plan to breastfeed? If so, I wouldn't worry about pacifiers at all right away. The recommendation is to avoid artificial nipples for the first 3-4 weeks, and even a little longer while you establish a supply. Breastfed babies also tend to wean earlier when they use a pacifier.

That being said, the same "rule" applies to pacifiers as bottles, clothes, etc...: don't invest too much in any one brand or style until you see what LO likes. I bought 1 pack in 3-4 different brands and wound up needing none of them b/c DS never liked the pacifier.

danabsd · February 2014

Both Advent a Similac will send you a free bottle. All you have to do is ask.

Advent: https://www.aventbottleoffer.com/samplerequestnewsurvey.asp?pid=7QVGYCPQ

Similac: https://similac.com/formula-coupons-free-samples

Lild09 · February 2014

I registered for different kinds of soothers and will start with one kind and move from there if need be (won't open them til needed). I also registered for Medela bottles and tommee tippee closer to nature..both recommended for bf babies...I think I might have put a couple born free on there too? Literally small packs of each. I'll start off with Medela and see what happens

theoryofwhat · February 2014

I find the Tommee Tippee pacifiers/chewthers pretty interesting. They were designed by a pediatric dentist and they help oral development to prepare baby for solids, speech, etc.

I'm getting Avent, Nuk, and Playtex bottles to see which work best for my LO.

ksyknelvr73 · February 2014

Maybe I was lucky but DS took any kind of pacifier and didn't seem to care. We used Dr. Brown's bottles and he was fine with those. I also BFed and he never had nipple confusion with bottles or pacifiers.

angelita11 · February 2014

My DS used both the soothies from the hospital and the advent pacifiers at the beginning. He ended up preferring the advent ones. I tried several different bottles before ending up with the advent. I think it really all depends on your preference as well as your baby's preference.

ThereBeDragons · February 2014

I've got an Avent starter set, and a box of binkies from a friend who's baby just wasn't interested. I'm also registered for a playtex starter set, but just for variety.

No real need to match brands or fuss too much to start. Baby will have opinions, but you won't know them until baby is here.

jay3907 · February 2014

DD was never interested in the pacifier. Which I'm glad about because we had planned on never giving her one to begin with but of course the nurses in the hospital gave her one. But like I said she didn't really care for it. And the bottle situation, she didn't mind the cheap ones from Walmart. I tried to BF in the hospital but she wouldn't quite latch right and wanted to each far more often then I was producing at the time, so I got nervous that she wasn't getting enough and switched her to the formula. I tried BF again once we got home but she still preferred that formula over me.

bam326 · February 2014

I plan on breastfeeding but will be pumping when I go back to work. We are crossing our fingers that our LO likes the playtex drop-ins. We are all about convenience and they seem to be the easiest of the options. The playtex bags have an adapter that I can pump directly into using the Medela pump.

tjkdlhb · February 2014

I bought a few types, and the one DD likes the best - and didn't leak - was the free one from Similac... Nuk brand. So we bought another one of those and used that when I was away from her.

Like PPs said, you won't know until LO is here. I'd register for a few starter kits from the formula companies (I gave away the formula to a mom in DD's playgroup when I knew BF was working) to get the bottles and buy more later on.

pistolpackinmomma · February 2014

DS ended up taking the nuk ones that are all the rubbery material. The same damn pacifier with a plastic shield, he screamed bloody murder. He did use the nuk bottles for a while but around 8 or so months he switched to playtex drop in bottles but still takes nuk pacifiers.

ABColeslaw · February 2014

Honestly, I only ever had Born Free bottles and even with suck and swallow issues I had no problem convincing Asher to drink from it. I think maybe I just hit the nail on the head the first time. I plant on getting new vents, rings, and nipples for the 4 glass nursers that survived from Asher. I'm getting some stainless steel ones to try, and I have three advent to try.

We only used Avent pacis with Asher until he was like a year and then he preferred the Mam ones.

Divine0chaos · February 2014

It's all your preference and babies really. With my first we did avent and avent. He tried tommee tippee binkies, but they were too long for him. He did great with the avent bottles, but I personally hated them towards the end I started having a ton of leak issues. This was almost 3.5 years ago so maybe they've fixed them? We only did one bottle of breast normally, and on my bad days a bottle of formula. At 7 months my supply was gone, so we went full formula at that time I believe I was already switching to straw sippies thank goodness. The more I was using the bottles the more leak issues I had. We will be going tommee tippee bottles this time with avent binkies again.

Dellaramsey · February 2014

We only bought Dr.Brown's wide neck bottles and DD used them just fine.

We did try several different paci's. I bought the gumdrop ones thinking they would be the best but DD couldn't keep it in her mouth. We ended up with Mam and Advent. They are very similar.

jjtyler · February 2014

We only used Dr. Brown's bottles and she never had an issue, but I did have a starter set of Avent on back-up.

As for pacifiers, we had both Avent and Nuk and she took to the Nuk way better, so we will try this with this baby and see. The hospital binkies they gave out where a bust from the get go.

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