Help! I've got nipple confusion!

[staceychev]

Bottles are confusing! I'm going back to work next week and figure I need more than the one bottle I bought at Whole Foods a month ago. So, after spending half an hour in the bottle section of Babies R Us with a stupid look on my face, I figure I need some help.

So, DD is 5.5 months old, hasn't really taken bottles other than a few times over the last week or so. We will be nursing when I'm with her for the foreseeable future (DD1 nursed until age 4). How do I choose a bottle? How can I tell what DD prefers? What "flow" nipple do I use? She's only drinking about 3-4 ounces of expressed milk right now--can we stick with the small bottles for the time being?

I did buy bottles by the way... two different 3-packs based mostly on what was affordable. I think I bought Nuby and Evenflo. I had picked up some glass ones, too, but think I'll return them because DD is very interested in holding the bottles herself. I also bought "stage 2" nipples for each.

[Blessed1]

All I can say is try the Breastflow bottle!! It is fantastic. Check it out here: http://www.learningcurve.com/breastflow

[staceychev]

Thanks--I did look at that in the store, but it looked huge (she likes to hold bottles herself)! And expensive... worth trying though?

nak

[tzs]

if she's old enough and drinks from whatever than just get the cheapest that you like.
i used the breastflow only because that's the only one my babe would drink out of. but as soon as she was older and i realized that she would drink from others with no problems and no reflux or gas or whatever it was the cheapo 3 packs for us.

[pbjmama]

If this is just the occasional bottle I would do a sippy cup and then in a few months go to a straw cup.

[OneWithTwo]

I HIGHLY recommend the Dr. Brown's wide neck bottle.