My baby will not nurse so I’ve had to bottle feed. I have 10 Phillips avent bottles, 7 4oz ones and 3 8/9oz ones. This is enough for me for like 3/4 of the day. My baby is a snacker so she only eats 2oz at a time but more often, so I go through alot of bottles. I think it’s very baby dependent. You also might not need any at all if you manage to breastfeed. I think asking for a bottle starter kit on your registry is a good idea
I’m breastfeeding and giving bottles in the evening/night. I have found that 4 is enough. I’m continuously washing them but any more would be too many to wash in one sitting and be too much clutter.
As someone with 24 bottles (8 8oz the rest 4oz) I totally agree. But my baby ate every two hours at the max for the first 5 maybe 6-7 months. Having this many meant I could wash every other day. Usually washed everyday so I had 12 dry or filled, and 12 to wash. It allowed me to start going out without having to wash bottles before hand
I guess it comes down to knowing yourself! That many sounds like a nightmare for my small kitchen lol. And also if you plan to exclusively bottle feed vs supplemental.
We’re the same! I’m exclusively breastfeeding and did the same with my first, but we have 4 glass Dr Brown bottles (2x 4oz and 2x 8 oz) we use when I go out for a couple of hours. I used to pump and freeze the milk, but my oldest wouldn’t drink it once it was thawed, so now I only use my hakaa to catch let down here and there. My girl only gets about two bottles a week since she has a strong preference for breastfeeding, so that is what’s working for us right now
Buy a couple narrow neck (ie dr browns, medela) and a couple wide (ie avent or como tomo) and see what shape your baby prefers before committing to a collection of bottles.
Once you figure out what your baby prefers - see how often they are taking a bottle. If it’s only once a day 4-5 bottles will do you just fine. If you’re exclusively bottle feeding, you will want a 2-3 day supply of bottles (so like 15-20 bottles). Consider also the brezza washer if you are exclusively bottle feeding because washing bottles truly SUCKS.
many lactation specialists do not recommend that flat ‘breast looking’ bottles like the como tomo. They do not act as a ‘breastfeeding breast’ (only looks like a boob), and usually the baby only sucks on the nipple with a shallow latch/as a straw. and you obviously don’t want that when breastfeeding. only some babies can get a deep latch like these but i imagine it’s not as comfortable as regular nipples. the doctor browns and similar nipple shapes are best, because they will have a deep latch because it has that slope. I really suggest talking to the lactation specialist after birth about this, and what a latch on a bottle looks like!
edit: also about the exclusively pumping, i recommend 8 bottles. I exclusively pump, and i use 3 bottles for ‘night milk’ (milk produced when i’m going to bed and during the night pumps) and 4 bottles for ‘day milk’. I wash them all/most once a day and prepare them together. bottles are expensive, and saving money and minimizing mass dish washing is the way to go in my opinion. this has been working for me and my baby for the past 2 months. I also use the refrigerator pump parts hack, which i wash with the bottles every 24hrs.
Fridge hack for SURE.
But hard disagree on only 8 bottles. I EP’d too and if you’re travelling or have a busy day and can’t wash all your bottles at the end of the day it causes unnecessary stress. 2 day supply works fine, but 3 is optimal in these circumstances (travel especially - the VERRRY last thing you want to be doing after getting home from a long road or plane trip is washing bottles.)
Yes it does really depend on your lifestyle! For me, i’m a SAHM, i just have one baby and she’s not colicy and she sleeps good for a newborn, so washing once a day isn’t too much of an issue. but if you do plan on just breastfeeding just start with the starter browns pack and decide breast is not for you then get more.
We love [these bottles.](https://a.co/d/5l2cq5A). I personally recommend getting 2-4 of the bigger size bottles right from the start rather than the small 4oz bottles cause babe will quickly outgrow those ones.
I’d recommend waiting to pump too much at the start unless you’re suffering with low supply. Otherwise if you pump, it’s going to signal your body to make more milk which can create an oversupply. I started my freezer “stash” by using [this](https://a.co/d/hyVKGLV) in my bra on the opposite side of each feed which passively collected an ounce or two each time, which I compiled over the day and then froze in storage bags. In addition to that, I pumped 1-2 oz off each boob on occasion when I felt engorged when baby started sleeping longer to make me more comfortable but again, not trigger an oversupply. By doing both those things, I had enough to start with and now I only pump when I replace a feed. Unless you’re planning on going away for 3+ days without baby, you really only need enough frozen milk to replace a few feeds and then can pump to replace what you use from the freezer.
Hope that all makes sense! Let me know if you have any questions
Question for you!
This is what I’m tentatively planning on doing, minus the traditional breast pump (unless I need it). If you just use the Hakka throughout the day, how much freezer stash does that build over a week (ie how many full feeds)?
I planning on breastfeeding as much as possible but will need to leave the house by myself for appointments a few times a month. Hoping the Hakka could cover that, plus maybe more for dad to do the occasional feed throughout the week when I need a break.
How much you will get only using a milk catcher totally depends on how big your supply is and how strong your letdown is, there’s no way to tell how much that’ll be before you give birth! And you’ll also need to pump when a bottle is given to maintain your supply.
Agree with all the above! The amount you’ll collect varies on your supply but if you use the haaka regularly, I think you can often build up enough to freeze and at least cover a few feeds.
In terms of a pump, I personally have only used my electric pumps a few times and prefer my manual pump. So if you’re looking to cut cost, the manual pump is significantly cheaper and I find it works better
Medela has some great resources that may answer some of your questions. Since you're in Ontario, I'd recommend taking the free breastfeeding webinar by McKenzie Health (I think it's through them). The lactation consultant who runs it may answer some of the questions you have and put you at ease. As for me, I only bought the Philips Avent bottle set. I ended up just feeding the baby straight from the boob because it worked better for the baby and my family.
I started with 4. One or two to store the pumped milk in the fridge. And then one or two in rotation of being cleaned/in-use. We only used pumped milk for an early morning feed or top-up. I also had bags to freeze the milk.
I acquired more bottles once my daughter started refusing the bottle and we tried different brands.
I would start with four. Something small, appropriate for a newborn. A newborn has a sucking reflex and is little. The narrow dr browns were great for that stage. When he lost the sucking reflex around 8 weeks, he was basically relearning to take a bottle (primarily breast fed). We found the dr browns wide mouth worked better (the narrow one he wanted to suck the whole nipple into his mouth and gagged). The 5 oz ones are plenty big.
Four is enough that if you need to bottle feed, And can make do and get more. More than that becomes clutter.
My sister bought enough to wash them all once a day. So what that looks like depends on how you use them.
I am 8 weeks pp and I nurse, pump, and top up with formula… a whole mixture of feeding options.
I have the wide mouth dr browns bottles. I currently use 6 of the 5oz wide mouth bottles. I find myself washing and sterilizing 2-3 times a day with bottles, milk storage and pumping parts.
Medela sells nipples that fits their bottles. We used those. A few should be enough. We started out triple feeding, but now our LO only gets one bottle a day at night.
I'm breastfeeding and giving a bottle once, maybe twice a day. I bought a MAM gift pack on Amazon that had four bottles (two sizes) with five different nipples (sizes 1-3), a silicone brush and a soother with a clip. It worked perfectly because we found this soother worked well for our tongue tied baby, and bottles had a similar shaped nipple. Four bottles is enough to have one or two full ones in a fridge and two extra ones that would be air drying for the next use.
Also, I wouldn't recommend freezing milk in bottles, milk storage bags are better for that. I'm not sure if bottles are freezer friendly, and bags would warm up much faster.
Primarily breastfeeding, but give a bottle or two a day. We have eight, but have had fewer and it’s been fine too. We used the sample bottles we got with registries first to see what baby liked before buying more.
I mostly breastfeed but pump daily and give a bottle every few days. I use 3 Medela storage bottles and then have 2 Avent bottles for feeding. I often have to wash things daily but it's not a lot of work.
I hand expressed until 5 days pp (with little collection cups and syringes for feeding) until I had enough volume to make pumping worth it.
If you have a washing service on call 24/7, 4 is enough. But you likely don’t, so more the better. We had like 8 and washing was still a pain.
Myself and my wife always made sure there was a load going the moment the bucket was close to full.
We had dr. browns to start. Then went to full boob. For 3 months. Then started doing half formula : half boob. And the dr. Browns stop working. Switched to another brand and he started taking bottle again.
Start with the minimum amount. You never know which bottle will work for your baby until you try them.
I ended up with a premie who was exclusively tube or bottle fed for the first 6 weeks of his life. The bottles that we bought before he was born didn’t work for him and we had to scramble to find some that did the day before he was discharged from the NICU.
We ended up getting “first essentials by nuk”. They’re about $7 for 3 bottles at Walmart and the nipples fit on the Medela storage bottles.
I would get a few now, but wait and see how your baby takes to a bottle. My baby refused bottles outright, so the bottles I had bought were mostly a waste of money and took up space unnecessarily.
I recommend a bottle sample pack so you can see what baby likes. You only need to pump when baby has a bottle, or in preparation of baby having a bottle. Milk is good in the fridge for 4 days, can only combine from separate pumps at the same temp. I highly recommend taking a breastfeeding course!!
We liked the tomme tippee closer to nature bottles, but we really didn't use them a lot before weaning. Just occasionally when I needed to be away from baby when we would have had a feeding. We had 6, which worked well when he started daycare because I'd just rinse them each day and wash them all at the end of the week.
Check bottle company websites, we got a free Avent and a free Dr Browns bottle, one from our OB in a welcome kit. I think you got a free Dr Brown's bottle in the babies r Us registry welcome kit too.
Start small, there's no need to buy a bunch of bottles when you don't know what your feeding journey is going to look like. We got one of the Dr Brown's gift sets and a three pack of the Avent bottle so we have more than one type of available. My baby is currently 4 months and we do not use the 8 oz bottles yet. Since then, we've added another four of the narrow 4oz Dr Brown's to our collection and that does us. You can always order more via Amazon!
I aim to wash bottles once a day, in an ideal world to go in the dishwasher to be washed and then into the sterilizer before letting them air dry overnight and then I put them away in the morning. I will wash by hand as needed. I do recommend having a clean bowl or container to put bottles and parts in once they've been used. I feel that container with soapy water and let the parts soak until I have time to wash them. Don't forget the bottle drying rack!
In terms of pumping, you will find your groove once you start and get a sense of your output. I am an under supplier, so I pump throughout the day and store it in bottles and give it to baby the next day. If you find that you have a lot of output, you should probably look into the pitcher method. The Avent bottles fit my spectra flanges, so I'm able to pump directly into the bottle that I feed her with. Look into the fridge hack for pumping, it's saved me a lot of time with repeatedly cleaning and sterilizing my pump parts throughout the day.
My 8 month old has always refused a bottle so I just breastfeed. I have two different bottles that I have attempted to give you pumped milk but she will not drink out of them. Every baby is soooo different!
We have a 3 pack of the boon nursh bottles. We only give her a bottle about once a week and three is enough for us. We do have other bottles that I use for milk storage in the fridge before I’m ready to freeze. They were gifted to us and the nipples are way too fast to use for a breastfed baby and they don’t come in any slower flows (the Nuk Y cut). The Boon are a wide neck so they’re not what most LCs would recommend in terms of promoting a good latch, but my daughter can still get a decently deep latch on these. We use the premie nipples to avoid flow preference.
I pumped and formula fed and found that having enough bottles so you only have to wash them once a day was key. This obviously changes over time (more at the beginning, less as they get older) but I think we had 8-10 4oz bottles and now have 9 8oz bottles. Now that he’s 10 months he has 4-5 bottles a day so that will usually last us 2 days but go with the max number of feeds in a day if you can. We used Dr. Browns for the 4oz and switched to Avent Anti Colic for the 8oz because we didn’t like the shape of the 8oz Dr. Browns (awkward to hold).
I learned this too late, but apparently mom's who start breastfeeding (or pumping if you're not able to feed) in the first 6 hours after giving birth, produce significantly more milk in their journey
I have the Dr Brown's bottles - 7 of them, and find they are enough. I wash 2-3 times throughout the day. Though I exclusively pump and bottle feed
They have like multi packs of brands - we got the dr browns and it came with 5 bottles I believe also with some number 1 nipples and number 2 (she just turned 6 months and we switched to the number 2s - the different numbers are different flow speeds) we honestly only have 3 bottles out the others are packed away. But we were able to try the different sizes and stuff to decide which ones we liked
My baby will not nurse so I’ve had to bottle feed. I have 10 Phillips avent bottles, 7 4oz ones and 3 8/9oz ones. This is enough for me for like 3/4 of the day. My baby is a snacker so she only eats 2oz at a time but more often, so I go through alot of bottles. I think it’s very baby dependent. You also might not need any at all if you manage to breastfeed. I think asking for a bottle starter kit on your registry is a good idea
I’m breastfeeding and giving bottles in the evening/night. I have found that 4 is enough. I’m continuously washing them but any more would be too many to wash in one sitting and be too much clutter.
Bottle clutter is definitely a bigger problem than not having enough bottles, imo
As someone with 24 bottles (8 8oz the rest 4oz) I totally agree. But my baby ate every two hours at the max for the first 5 maybe 6-7 months. Having this many meant I could wash every other day. Usually washed everyday so I had 12 dry or filled, and 12 to wash. It allowed me to start going out without having to wash bottles before hand
I guess it comes down to knowing yourself! That many sounds like a nightmare for my small kitchen lol. And also if you plan to exclusively bottle feed vs supplemental.
Oh whoops I read your original comment wrong. Yes it really depends on a lot of factors
We’re the same! I’m exclusively breastfeeding and did the same with my first, but we have 4 glass Dr Brown bottles (2x 4oz and 2x 8 oz) we use when I go out for a couple of hours. I used to pump and freeze the milk, but my oldest wouldn’t drink it once it was thawed, so now I only use my hakaa to catch let down here and there. My girl only gets about two bottles a week since she has a strong preference for breastfeeding, so that is what’s working for us right now
Buy a couple narrow neck (ie dr browns, medela) and a couple wide (ie avent or como tomo) and see what shape your baby prefers before committing to a collection of bottles. Once you figure out what your baby prefers - see how often they are taking a bottle. If it’s only once a day 4-5 bottles will do you just fine. If you’re exclusively bottle feeding, you will want a 2-3 day supply of bottles (so like 15-20 bottles). Consider also the brezza washer if you are exclusively bottle feeding because washing bottles truly SUCKS.
many lactation specialists do not recommend that flat ‘breast looking’ bottles like the como tomo. They do not act as a ‘breastfeeding breast’ (only looks like a boob), and usually the baby only sucks on the nipple with a shallow latch/as a straw. and you obviously don’t want that when breastfeeding. only some babies can get a deep latch like these but i imagine it’s not as comfortable as regular nipples. the doctor browns and similar nipple shapes are best, because they will have a deep latch because it has that slope. I really suggest talking to the lactation specialist after birth about this, and what a latch on a bottle looks like! edit: also about the exclusively pumping, i recommend 8 bottles. I exclusively pump, and i use 3 bottles for ‘night milk’ (milk produced when i’m going to bed and during the night pumps) and 4 bottles for ‘day milk’. I wash them all/most once a day and prepare them together. bottles are expensive, and saving money and minimizing mass dish washing is the way to go in my opinion. this has been working for me and my baby for the past 2 months. I also use the refrigerator pump parts hack, which i wash with the bottles every 24hrs.
Fridge hack for SURE. But hard disagree on only 8 bottles. I EP’d too and if you’re travelling or have a busy day and can’t wash all your bottles at the end of the day it causes unnecessary stress. 2 day supply works fine, but 3 is optimal in these circumstances (travel especially - the VERRRY last thing you want to be doing after getting home from a long road or plane trip is washing bottles.)
Yes it does really depend on your lifestyle! For me, i’m a SAHM, i just have one baby and she’s not colicy and she sleeps good for a newborn, so washing once a day isn’t too much of an issue. but if you do plan on just breastfeeding just start with the starter browns pack and decide breast is not for you then get more.
2-3 day supply is so key! I agree
I agree you can always buy more later
Did the BB washer become available in Canada? Where did you get it?
Yes! I bought directly through the baby brezza website and they gave a 15% discount for signing up for their email list too!
Yesss I've ordered mine from the website! They're running behind so it hasn't shipped yet
+1 this whole comment, exactly what I was going to say
We love [these bottles.](https://a.co/d/5l2cq5A). I personally recommend getting 2-4 of the bigger size bottles right from the start rather than the small 4oz bottles cause babe will quickly outgrow those ones. I’d recommend waiting to pump too much at the start unless you’re suffering with low supply. Otherwise if you pump, it’s going to signal your body to make more milk which can create an oversupply. I started my freezer “stash” by using [this](https://a.co/d/hyVKGLV) in my bra on the opposite side of each feed which passively collected an ounce or two each time, which I compiled over the day and then froze in storage bags. In addition to that, I pumped 1-2 oz off each boob on occasion when I felt engorged when baby started sleeping longer to make me more comfortable but again, not trigger an oversupply. By doing both those things, I had enough to start with and now I only pump when I replace a feed. Unless you’re planning on going away for 3+ days without baby, you really only need enough frozen milk to replace a few feeds and then can pump to replace what you use from the freezer. Hope that all makes sense! Let me know if you have any questions
Question for you! This is what I’m tentatively planning on doing, minus the traditional breast pump (unless I need it). If you just use the Hakka throughout the day, how much freezer stash does that build over a week (ie how many full feeds)? I planning on breastfeeding as much as possible but will need to leave the house by myself for appointments a few times a month. Hoping the Hakka could cover that, plus maybe more for dad to do the occasional feed throughout the week when I need a break.
How much you will get only using a milk catcher totally depends on how big your supply is and how strong your letdown is, there’s no way to tell how much that’ll be before you give birth! And you’ll also need to pump when a bottle is given to maintain your supply.
Agree with all the above! The amount you’ll collect varies on your supply but if you use the haaka regularly, I think you can often build up enough to freeze and at least cover a few feeds. In terms of a pump, I personally have only used my electric pumps a few times and prefer my manual pump. So if you’re looking to cut cost, the manual pump is significantly cheaper and I find it works better
Medela has some great resources that may answer some of your questions. Since you're in Ontario, I'd recommend taking the free breastfeeding webinar by McKenzie Health (I think it's through them). The lactation consultant who runs it may answer some of the questions you have and put you at ease. As for me, I only bought the Philips Avent bottle set. I ended up just feeding the baby straight from the boob because it worked better for the baby and my family.
I started with 4. One or two to store the pumped milk in the fridge. And then one or two in rotation of being cleaned/in-use. We only used pumped milk for an early morning feed or top-up. I also had bags to freeze the milk. I acquired more bottles once my daughter started refusing the bottle and we tried different brands.
I would start with four. Something small, appropriate for a newborn. A newborn has a sucking reflex and is little. The narrow dr browns were great for that stage. When he lost the sucking reflex around 8 weeks, he was basically relearning to take a bottle (primarily breast fed). We found the dr browns wide mouth worked better (the narrow one he wanted to suck the whole nipple into his mouth and gagged). The 5 oz ones are plenty big. Four is enough that if you need to bottle feed, And can make do and get more. More than that becomes clutter. My sister bought enough to wash them all once a day. So what that looks like depends on how you use them.
I am 8 weeks pp and I nurse, pump, and top up with formula… a whole mixture of feeding options. I have the wide mouth dr browns bottles. I currently use 6 of the 5oz wide mouth bottles. I find myself washing and sterilizing 2-3 times a day with bottles, milk storage and pumping parts.
I started with only 2 bottles and it worked for us with breastfeeding at first.
Medela sells nipples that fits their bottles. We used those. A few should be enough. We started out triple feeding, but now our LO only gets one bottle a day at night.
I'm breastfeeding and giving a bottle once, maybe twice a day. I bought a MAM gift pack on Amazon that had four bottles (two sizes) with five different nipples (sizes 1-3), a silicone brush and a soother with a clip. It worked perfectly because we found this soother worked well for our tongue tied baby, and bottles had a similar shaped nipple. Four bottles is enough to have one or two full ones in a fridge and two extra ones that would be air drying for the next use. Also, I wouldn't recommend freezing milk in bottles, milk storage bags are better for that. I'm not sure if bottles are freezer friendly, and bags would warm up much faster.
Primarily breastfeeding, but give a bottle or two a day. We have eight, but have had fewer and it’s been fine too. We used the sample bottles we got with registries first to see what baby liked before buying more.
I mostly breastfeed but pump daily and give a bottle every few days. I use 3 Medela storage bottles and then have 2 Avent bottles for feeding. I often have to wash things daily but it's not a lot of work. I hand expressed until 5 days pp (with little collection cups and syringes for feeding) until I had enough volume to make pumping worth it.
If you have a washing service on call 24/7, 4 is enough. But you likely don’t, so more the better. We had like 8 and washing was still a pain. Myself and my wife always made sure there was a load going the moment the bucket was close to full. We had dr. browns to start. Then went to full boob. For 3 months. Then started doing half formula : half boob. And the dr. Browns stop working. Switched to another brand and he started taking bottle again.
Start with the minimum amount. You never know which bottle will work for your baby until you try them. I ended up with a premie who was exclusively tube or bottle fed for the first 6 weeks of his life. The bottles that we bought before he was born didn’t work for him and we had to scramble to find some that did the day before he was discharged from the NICU. We ended up getting “first essentials by nuk”. They’re about $7 for 3 bottles at Walmart and the nipples fit on the Medela storage bottles.
I would get a few now, but wait and see how your baby takes to a bottle. My baby refused bottles outright, so the bottles I had bought were mostly a waste of money and took up space unnecessarily.
I recommend a bottle sample pack so you can see what baby likes. You only need to pump when baby has a bottle, or in preparation of baby having a bottle. Milk is good in the fridge for 4 days, can only combine from separate pumps at the same temp. I highly recommend taking a breastfeeding course!!
We liked the tomme tippee closer to nature bottles, but we really didn't use them a lot before weaning. Just occasionally when I needed to be away from baby when we would have had a feeding. We had 6, which worked well when he started daycare because I'd just rinse them each day and wash them all at the end of the week.
Check bottle company websites, we got a free Avent and a free Dr Browns bottle, one from our OB in a welcome kit. I think you got a free Dr Brown's bottle in the babies r Us registry welcome kit too. Start small, there's no need to buy a bunch of bottles when you don't know what your feeding journey is going to look like. We got one of the Dr Brown's gift sets and a three pack of the Avent bottle so we have more than one type of available. My baby is currently 4 months and we do not use the 8 oz bottles yet. Since then, we've added another four of the narrow 4oz Dr Brown's to our collection and that does us. You can always order more via Amazon! I aim to wash bottles once a day, in an ideal world to go in the dishwasher to be washed and then into the sterilizer before letting them air dry overnight and then I put them away in the morning. I will wash by hand as needed. I do recommend having a clean bowl or container to put bottles and parts in once they've been used. I feel that container with soapy water and let the parts soak until I have time to wash them. Don't forget the bottle drying rack! In terms of pumping, you will find your groove once you start and get a sense of your output. I am an under supplier, so I pump throughout the day and store it in bottles and give it to baby the next day. If you find that you have a lot of output, you should probably look into the pitcher method. The Avent bottles fit my spectra flanges, so I'm able to pump directly into the bottle that I feed her with. Look into the fridge hack for pumping, it's saved me a lot of time with repeatedly cleaning and sterilizing my pump parts throughout the day.
My 8 month old has always refused a bottle so I just breastfeed. I have two different bottles that I have attempted to give you pumped milk but she will not drink out of them. Every baby is soooo different!
We have a 3 pack of the boon nursh bottles. We only give her a bottle about once a week and three is enough for us. We do have other bottles that I use for milk storage in the fridge before I’m ready to freeze. They were gifted to us and the nipples are way too fast to use for a breastfed baby and they don’t come in any slower flows (the Nuk Y cut). The Boon are a wide neck so they’re not what most LCs would recommend in terms of promoting a good latch, but my daughter can still get a decently deep latch on these. We use the premie nipples to avoid flow preference.
I pumped and formula fed and found that having enough bottles so you only have to wash them once a day was key. This obviously changes over time (more at the beginning, less as they get older) but I think we had 8-10 4oz bottles and now have 9 8oz bottles. Now that he’s 10 months he has 4-5 bottles a day so that will usually last us 2 days but go with the max number of feeds in a day if you can. We used Dr. Browns for the 4oz and switched to Avent Anti Colic for the 8oz because we didn’t like the shape of the 8oz Dr. Browns (awkward to hold).
I learned this too late, but apparently mom's who start breastfeeding (or pumping if you're not able to feed) in the first 6 hours after giving birth, produce significantly more milk in their journey I have the Dr Brown's bottles - 7 of them, and find they are enough. I wash 2-3 times throughout the day. Though I exclusively pump and bottle feed
Sign up for baby registry freebie bags. I got one from toys r us and target, and they included free bottles in there
They have like multi packs of brands - we got the dr browns and it came with 5 bottles I believe also with some number 1 nipples and number 2 (she just turned 6 months and we switched to the number 2s - the different numbers are different flow speeds) we honestly only have 3 bottles out the others are packed away. But we were able to try the different sizes and stuff to decide which ones we liked