Latex, Rubber or Silicone? - bottle nipples

[Maxine45]

Due to my concern about phthalates and other toxins, I ordered some glass baby bottles for our little bundle of joy we're expecting soon. They arrived with Latex nipples.
I can't seem to find the information I'm seeking - are Latex nipples safe? Should I find silicone or Rubber?

If anyone can point me to a good resource or just hand me the answer on a silver plannter , I'd be most appreciative.

Thanks!

Incidentally I'm planning to breastfeed but thought it might be nice to have a bottle or two around.

[LovemyBoo]

We used silicone with ds. Latex is risky from an allergy standpoint, and silicone tasted better than rubber and held up better. Rubber nipples just seemed so nasty.

[Ruthla]

Latex allergies are much more common than silicone allergies.

Silicone also lasts longer- I initially purchased latex nipples for my DS, and they wore out in about a month. The silicone nipples I replaced them with lasted over 6m- this was with regular use since I WOH 20 hrs/week at that point. When he was around 10mo I switched from slow-flow to medium-flow nipples, and those nipples lasted until he was totally done with bottles (ebm til 20m, the occasional "pretend I'm a baby" bottle until he was about 3 and kept on leaving bottles of cow's milk places like behind the couch, so I threw them out when I found them a few days later. When I threw the last one away, I never replaced them.)

[ColeysMama]

We use silicone. I like them because they're softer, more flexible than the latex I originally got. More like the real thing.

[Llyra]

Latex is prone to drying out and/or cracking much sooner. Silicone nipples are also less likely to taste funky, and less likely to cause allergies. We went with silicone, and it's what I'd recommend.

[MomToKandE]

We went silicone because my grandmother has a latex allergy. She didn't develop the allergy until about 10 years ago but I WOH so even though I nursed at home my children got a fair number of bottles at daycare. I figured that reducing their latex exposure couldn't hurt and might help,

[Meiri]

Latex IS rubber. Or rather rubber IS latex. It comes from the Rubber tree.

Unless it specifies that it's neoprene or some other synthetic "rubber", I assume it's natural rubber, more technically called latex, and therefor an allergy issue.

If I had to make this decision, I'd go with silicone.

[Synchro246]

Just another vote for silicone

[alegna]

I vote no bottles. We never used one, never missed them.

-Angela

[mamamelia]

i'd go with silicone just in case of a latex allergy. plastic bottles gross me out aswell, so i'm getting some glass bottles for this new babe. which brand did you buy and what do you think of them?

[Maxine45]

The bottles are by EvenFlo and I can't express a well-informed opinion because the baby isn't born yet!
but they seem very solid and traditional and I can't wait to give them a whirl when the time is right
I did buy silicone nipples to replace the latex ones.

[mamamelia]

thanks mama to be! i think i'll go with the evenflo ones too.