Do glass baby bottles break when dropped? - Page 2

[pixiekisses]

We've never broken them. We have Dr. Brown and Born Free, no covers.
And we have tiles on the kitchen floor, and they have been dropped on the tiles (as well as the hardwood eveywhere else in the house), but as I said, we've never broken any.

[organicpapayamama]

I use the Wee Go glass bottles. My toddler is quite rough with them and I have never had one break. The silicone cover works great.

[AugustLia23]

While I did breastfeed exclusively, we used bottles for feedings when I was at work. With my youngest, we used all glass bottles and never had one break on us. Of course if you threw one across the room, it probably would, but I remember dropping the bottles a handful of times from standing height and never had any problems, unless you count milk spilling onto the floor.

[JudiAU]

I ebf but my nanny uses medela glass bottles to feed expressed milk when I am away. We've used them for about 12m and had one break, when it fell from the top shelf of refrigerator onto our concrete kitchen floor. It was a clean break. We've never had a break from actual usage. She doesn't have a preference between the glass and the plastic medela.They go to the park, everywhere.

The medela bottles are fairly expensive; I've heard that Evenflo fit the same medela nipples we use and are cheaper.

[TheGirls]

We use both the evenflo and born free glass bottles.  I've never had an evenflo one break, and I drop them a LOT on our hardwood floors.  Last week we broke our first Born Free bottle, dropped from table height onto a concrete floor at the zoo.  It didn't have any kind of cozy on it and was full of milk, both of which increase the odds of breakage. 

Our boys are 4 months old, but certainly don't hold their own bottles yet.  Once we get to the hold your own phase I'm hoping to introduce a sippy anyhow. 

[cristeen]

We've been using Born Free glass since birth. He's almost 18 mos. We've broken 1 and i am clumsy. Falling from counter height onto hardwood - no breakage. Being tossed out of the stroller onto the concrete floor at WF was spectacular though. Since he's of an age to hold them himself now, we only use plastic out of the house.

But, because of the weight of a full glass bottle, he couldnt hold them himself until about 14 mos, when i got wise and put handles on them. Now we're trying to teach him not to run around the house dripping.

[JudiAU]

FYI - DH and I briefly discussed this last night. He thought it was worth mentioning that since I ebf, and bottles are only given in my absence, we do not teach or encourage bottle holding by infant or toddler. Bottles are given in a like-nursing position. When and if she rejects that, she go to a transitional cup. Also, she pretty much never rides in a stroller. When she was a little she was carried in a sling and now she walks.

So if you have strong feelings either way about how a baby is fed a bottle, that might calculate into the breakage ratio.

[nktigger99]

I used born free glass bottles for 15 months with my DS.  We never had any break...I started with 13 bottles and when he weaned I was able to sell them on craigslist for almost as much as I bought them for.  They were in excellent condition!!  I think how you feed the baby does make a difference...we never let him hold his own bottles...even at 15 months...at that point we switched him to sippy cups. 

That said I dropped the bottles on our concrete driveway a number of times...from about waist height...they would fall out of the diaper bag and they never broke. 

[Hannah32]

Originally Posted by organicpapayamama 

I use the Wee Go glass bottles. My toddler is quite rough with them and I have never had one break. The silicone cover works great.

We have these too and have not yet had any problems. I like them a lot. However, he's not lugging them around the house. He can hold them, but he's not doing the whole thing independently yet. And he only gets bottles while I'm at work, so it's 2-3 a day. 

[octobermom]

We did glass bottles with our first Evenflow and some others can't remember.. We we CONSTANTLY breaking them but our home had hard cramic tiles and most anything shattered on those.. I finially went to the Drop in liners and we were much happier... Our current was exclusivly on breast. 

Deanna

[MisaGoat]

We've been using the Evenflo ones for about 3 months and we haven't broken any. (knocks on wood) I like them because they go through the dishwasher well. 

[Chun]

Hello,

Check out www.boobunny.com. They have nice glass bottles that are nice and it comes with protective sleeves.