Bottle recommendation?

[mbfl450]

I am going back to work in a few weeks and I want to start getting my 9 week old baby comfortable with drinking expressed breast milk from a bottle. I want to continue breastfeeing as much as possible even when I begin to work. What bottles are recommended for feeding breastfed babies?

[OTMomma]

Lots of brands are big on supporting breast feeding. Avent I heard good things about- but my first didn't care for those. I ended up using the standard style ones myself. I would get a couple of different ones to try with baby and see what he likes. See if any of them actually look like the shape of your nipple.

[HungryCaterpillar]

We use the playtex dropins with the slow-flow nurser nipple. We use the silicone nipples most of the time since they can go in the dishwasher, and sometimes the latex - DD doesn't seem to care which one, but some babies have a strong preference.

The dropins are very non-green and wasteful since you throw them away every time (although I've heard of people washing and reusing them) but I've decided that's just something we're going to live with. We make earth-friendly choices in almost every other area of life/parenting, the planet is just going to have to forgive us on this one! DD tends to eat very enthusiastically and swallows air no matter what we do (she does this on the breast as well) so the dropins minimize this as much as possible.

[monkey-lamb]

I've been using the Born Free with my DD. She took them with no problems when she was only a few months old. They only issue is that they don't fit the breast pump. I have seen adapters for them, but I didn't want to cart the bottles and accessories to work with me everyday. I just pump into the Medela pump bottles and then transfer the milk to my Born Free in the evenings. I wash a lot more bottles, but I want the best seal possible since it is already so easy to spill milk.

[busymama77]

I used Avent bottles with my first child and will use them again for my second child. They are BPA free, help reduces colic, fairly inexpensive, comes in different sizes, etc., I like them a lot.

[Xavismom]

I havent used them yet, but one of my MW's recommended the Adiri Natural Nurser bottles. She said they help prevent nipple confusion. They do look like a breast, albiet a smaller one than mine lol.

We have a few on hand, and some BM in the freezer just in case something comes up and we need it.

[EmmaJane]

My very fussy DD1 sort of put up with Dr. Brown's bottles, better than anything else. We tried almost everything sold... and tossed 'em all before DD2, because of BPA.

My second is much more into bottles overall. We got some ThinkBaby ones to start with, and she likes those just fine -- same idea as the Dr. Brown's, but fewer little parts to wash and lose -- but she's also perfectly happy with just screwing the Medela nipple caps onto the Medela pump bottles.

[rivkah]

We tried about five different kinds and the only ones dd will take are Breastflow. I would only buy one of whatever kind you choose, because your baby might reject it. You don't want to end up with ten useless bottles. Breastflow and Adiri seem to be pretty breastfeeding friendly.

[HeliMom]

I am very rarely away from my daughter long enough, so take this with a grain of salt, but she loves her Adiri. When she's nursing sometimes she likes to massage my breast and DH tells me that DD does the same to the Adiri bottle. We have no troubles with nipple confusion.

[ratrodgrl]

Originally Posted by HungryCaterpillar

We use the playtex dropins with the slow-flow nurser nipple. We use the silicone nipples most of the time since they can go in the dishwasher, and sometimes the latex - DD doesn't seem to care which one, but some babies have a strong preference.

The dropins are very non-green and wasteful since you throw them away every time (although I've heard of people washing and reusing them) but I've decided that's just something we're going to live with. We make earth-friendly choices in almost every other area of life/parenting, the planet is just going to have to forgive us on this one! DD tends to eat very enthusiastically and swallows air no matter what we do (she does this on the breast as well) so the dropins minimize this as much as possible.

I just started getting DS back on bottles for occasional use. He's 9.5 weeks old, and choked & spluttered on everything else but Playtex dropins w/ latex slow-flow. Have to make sure to squeeze the bag so there's no air in the bottle. I hate to use disposable, but you gotta do what works! maybe after a bit we can try something else, but this is the ticket for right now. Oh, the new ones are BPA free... and you can use any breast milk storage bag in it, so if that's how you're storing your milk anyways I guess it's not that wasteful.

[LindsC]

We use the Breastflow bottles too and DD has never had a problem with them or going back and forth between them and the breast.