Please recommend newborn bottles

[Anonymous]

Resembling breast and best at avoiding hiccups as much as possible. Thanks

[Anonymous]

I BF DS and Avent bottles were the only ones that worked for us.

[Anonymous]

It probably varies by baby to some extent, because for us Avent was too fast. DS liked them fine, I just didn't want him getting used to having milk come that easily! Best for us were the silicone slow nipples for Playtex Drop-Ins (the latex ones I found very inconsistent). Not sure about avoiding hiccups - DS got them occasionally, but that happened even when we were only nursing.

[Anonymous]

hiccups are a normal newborn reflex. i don't think they have antyhing to do with bottle type.

our first bottles were the playtex drop ins, but i actually love the nubys much much better. gerber also has a new one that is very breast-like (its at giant and on diapers.com).

[Anonymous]

I am a newborn care specialist who has tried every bottle type imaginable. (I've had over 70 babies in my care) I recommend the Dr. Brown bottles. (The narrow neck ones). I like them the best because the narrow neck works well not only for full term and older babies but also for newborns and preemies as well. The design of the bottle works well with reflux babies and babies with other feeding issues. Overall, it’s just most likely to work well no matter what issues may arise.
As far as a bottle that is similar to breast feeding- that doesn’t really exist. Some companies have designed gimmicky bottles that are supposed to look and feel most like the breast, but the bottom line is bottle feeding is a completely different experience for your baby. Bottles (even with a slow flow nipple) are less work for the baby and take less coordination for. The best thing you can do is get breastfeeding nicely established before introducing the first bottle. Then, between weeks 3-4, give the baby a bottle. Continue to offer a bottle again regularly (at least once a week) so you know baby will take it.
Jennifer White
Modern Babynurse Postpartum Services
Newborn Specialist and Parent Educator

"Postpartum Services for the Modern Family"
330-715-0477
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I have heard the Dr. Brown newborn bottle set is great. I don't speak from personal experience, as I'm expecting #1 right now, but I've done a lot of asking and that brand keeps getting recommended.

[Anonymous]

I hate hate hate Dr Brown's because of all the parts. SOOO annoying! I didn't like how the Avent tend to leak way too easily either. You have to get them screwed on just right and it's nearly impossible to do every single time. I like playtex drop ins and am looking into the tommee tippee bottles. Those nipples look the most like mine!

[Anonymous]

I hated Dr. Browns because of all the parts too. I did use them for on the go though. I would put breastmilk in the glass bottles and take it with me if I needed to give my son a bottle quickly. For day to day at home, we used the playtex drop-ins. So easy and nice not to have to wash all the parts...just the nipple and you are done.

[Anonymous]

Dr. Browns. They were NICU recommended for our preemie with reflux and feeding problems and they worked great. The parts are annoying to wash.

[Anonymous]

PP again.

Our baby went back and forth between breast and Dr. Browns with no problem.

[Anonymous]

We used the Dr. Browns and they were great and I recommend for newborn use because of the slower flow. However at 6 months we switched to the avent which are great, too - there are too many parts to constantly clean for the Dr. Brown.

[Anonymous]

Dr. Brown's.

DS, now 5 months, choked on bottles from the beginning. I BF, but he lost a lot of weight and I had to supplement at the beginning, and then continued to give him a bottle of pumped BM every night starting at 6 weeks. At first we used medela bottles and nipples, and he choked. Then we switched to Born Free, and it was better, but he still choked. Finally someone gave me a dr. brown's bottle to try, and he finally took the bottle without choking. He is now at daycare, and the providers have told me he takes the bottles without a problem (i have also given him a bottle without him choking), and his reflux is much better too.

The parts are a pain, but the Born Free bottles have extra parts too, as do the avent bottles. The extra 30 seconds it takes to clean the vents in the Dr Browns bottles are totally worth it when you don't have to deal with a chokey, spituppy, refluxy, hiccupy baby.

[Anonymous]

We really like the BreastFlow bottle by The First Years. It has a fat nipple that resembles a breast, and the nipple also has 2 parts--inner and outer. The baby has to suck ahrder to get the milk into the nipple, more like the work they do breastfeeding.

They may be one of the "gimmicky" ones noted by the PP, but they work really well for us.

And hiccups are totally unrelated to bottle--a newborn reflex, as noted.

[Anonymous]

We used Dr. Brown. Better than Born Free for us. Lactation consultant suggested ThinkBaby, which my baby positively hated. The one thing I might suggest is using the narrow-necked ones if baby is eventually going to daycare. We went with the wide-neck ones, for no particular reason and they are hard to fit in DD's daycare tray. Also, narrow-neck parts are more widely available, and they are easier for babies to hold as they get to that stage. I agree the cleaning is a bit of a pain, but I think it's worth it.

[Anonymous]

DS was BF and took a bottle a few nights a week. He hated Dr. Brown's. They gave him gas for some reason. We switched to Born Free and he was very happy with them.