What bottles to use?

Question

I plan on giving breast feeding a try this time, but I want to know which bottles out there are recommend to most, just in case I need them.

Answer 1

We use the Gerber Comfort bottles.

But if you're going to pump, my sis-in-law uses the Avent pump and loves it, so you'd use the Avent bottles with it.

I second the recommendation made by someone else to only buy the larger capacity bottles. If you buy the 4-5oz bottles, you just end up replacing them in a few months. The larger ones come with the medium flow nipples, but you can buy separate slow flow nipples for the first few months for a lot less money than bottles.

Answer 2

I used Avent bottles because everything I'd read stated they were highly compatible with breastfeeding.

They have the traditional bottles, and then the ones with the disposable inserts (like Playtex nursers). I preferred the ones with the inserts, because the collapsible bags seemed to really cut down on the amount of air swallowed.

http://www.breastfeed-essentials.com/aventbottles.html

Answer 3

If you end up using both nursing and bottles, try Dr. Brown's bottles. They were recommended to me by a lactation consultant. She said that they were the closest thing to breastfeeding. The baby has to "work" for the food with these bottles. I did both until my daughter was about six months old, after that, she didn't want to nurse anymore.

Answer 4

I didn't have a specific bottle. I just prefer to use the ones without the bags...And I changed the nipples...I used the ones that are made by Nuk? The nipple is shaped like a binki...My son loved that kind.

Answer 5

Seriously, the cheapest ones you can find. I had these fancy pants ones that did all this stuff with airflow and who knows what, and my boy hated them. The three-for-a-dollar ones from WalMart - loved them.

I did end up having to get the Nuk nipples, though. They are a little less pointy and weird and he was more comfortable with them. They are more expensive than regular ones, but fit just about any bottle.

Answer 6

Advent.

And buy the 9-oz bottles. You can always put 4 ozs in an 9 oz bottle but you can't put 8 oz in a 4 oz bottle.

Answer 7

I use ventair standard bottles.

I tried the cheaper ones, but my baby was spitting up a lot. The ventair have a vent at the bottom (that doesn't leak somehow) to keep air from getting in your baby's tummy. That keeps her from getting a stomach ache, or being really spitty.

Answer 8

I used disposable playtex drop in liners...less risk of bacteria growing inside them