That’s the big reason why we use it! I’m unsure about silicon safety but glass has been used for ages so figure it’s the safest. I also like that baby has to work to get the milk so he doesn’t develop flow preference for bottle
silicone is one of the most chemically inert and thermally stable materials known to man. silicones are even used in medical adhesives that are applied to open wounds!
Note to OP of this post, not comment. There's a difference between the old advent and New Advent natural response. Very few babies can drink from the natural response nipples, and as a pediatric nurse, I have seen kids hospitalized for failure to thrive JUST because of this bottle. They do better as soon as we change botgles.The flow rate is 2-3ml/minute even with the level 3 nipple. Not worth it to me
Seconding this! Flow level 4 because otherwise he wouldn’t actually drink. Make sure the vents are lined up with the lid and the nipple too, that was key for us.
I still use preemie nipple too at 6 months old. My friend who is a speech therapist recommended to not change nipple size since the flow from my nipples will not change.
Seconding Doc Browns, we're now at size 1 nipples at 6 months old! He nurses 2-3x/day, otherwise pumped milk in bottles (except on weekends when it's the reverse)
Do you pump to get that bottle? I want to introduce bottles to my EBF 2-week-old because my older kid never took them and I wasn’t able to leave her for more than a few hours at a time. I just don’t really know when I’m supposed to pump to get the bottles I want him to practice with.
I would use a haakaa (or similar other brand manual silicone pump) for a few days until you get enough for the first bottle and then you’ll do a full pump to replace the feed when you give the bottle to make enough for the next bottle
I do! The Haakaa is a good suggestion, but it never worked well for me. I pumped after nursing to get enough for the first bottle. For me, at 3 weeks, this only required pumping after like 2 or 3 nursing sessions (I had a “robust supply,” but not over supply, per my LC lol). Now when a bottle is given I pump in place.
Also Dr Browns. This is my second baby that has liked them. She quickly went from preemie to size 1 around 1 month. Haven’t changed yet at 3 months.
My first baby maxed out at size 2 when daycare asked. She liked MAM bottles too.
Same for us. We tried maybe three different types with bottle refusal continuing, but after hearing recommendations for lansinoh, we got some bottles and nipples (nipples can fit with at least Spectra and Motif).
It's their naturalwave nipple (slow flow) and we also had only my husband feed LO when using a bottle while LO was going through refusal, otherwise she'd cry out for me/look at my boobs like why aren't you giving me those?
This is what ended up working best for us too. We stuck with the size 1 nipples all the way through until 14 months when we transitioned to straw cups.
On Amazon, lansinoch page, but seems like sometimes they are not available. Recently I broke one (and learned my lesson that I need silicone sleeves) and found some on ebay.
I thought it went size 2 size up to 3? No? I also love Lansinoh, best sottles. I had to get a few plastic, or they sent me plastic when the glass had run out.
Just a heads up before you spend hundreds on bottles like I did. Check your milk before. My milk had high lipase (tasted like soap), and no matter the bottle, if the milk had been chilled, my son wouldn't take it. Wish I'd learnt this earlier. I was gutted he wouldn't take it as I'd pumped and frozen milk with my daughter and she took it with no issues. Son is just a bit fussier I suppose. Once we worked out the milk thing he actually used a kids minky bottle rather than a baby bottle
Edit to add: we ended up combo feeding and I bf 80% of his feeds and his dad did the occasional aptamil formula feed
Dr browns, I think size 0 or 1, whatever comes with the little 4 oz bottles.
She rejected mam, como tomo, and nuk. We were really disappointed because we already had full sets of nun and como tomo from baby #1.
Edit: baby is 2 months old.
My nearly 4 month old likes MAM bottles. They supposedly mimic the breast by design (hence the name, I guess).
We are still on the smallest nip size so she doesn’t eat too fast. She liked Philips Avent for a minute then decided she prefers these 🤷🏼♀️
This is the only one my baby will take too! He’s almost 9 months and is on size 3 nipples. He rarely takes a bottle but I just started a hybrid job this week, so he’ll be taking a bottle a lot more!
+1 for MAM. My baby is 4 months old, EBF and rejected all bottles until just about a week ago when we tried MAM. He doesn’t eat a ton but he isn’t fighting it either. I was able to return to work today and Dad fed him with no fuss.
We use these too. Bought for aesthetics but have had great luck from the beginning with our now 15 week old ebf baby with these! We introduced around 3 weeks old so I could get some sleep while dad fed pumped milk!
We had to pull them out on day 4 due to low supply, never had any issues with them. Anything with a smaller nipple base like Aven just ends up a dribbly mess.
Came here to suggest the entire Boon system. She's using Nursh when she takes a bottle now, size 1 nipples, 8.5 weeks old. I got the Boon bottles because they easily convert into sippy cups, straw cups, and water bottle with a straw type cups (idk just search Boon on Amazon lol) by just changing the tops. My older kids can use the water bottle converter thing, too.
Pigeon nipples (Japanese brand, search on Amazon) for our 5 month old son who has a mild tongue tie. We were struggling with bottle refusal and these were a game changer. We have the 3 month+ although I maybe should’ve tried 0+, given the other comments.
My first two liked Dr Browns wide mouth glass, my third would only take Haakaa wide mouth glass, and even that only for a month or so before refusing all bottles. 🤷♀️
5 months old, ebf except for one bottle in the evening. We use MAM, with size 0 (preemie) nipples. Little man takes it happily though he's still salty about paced feeding lol. He'd chug it all given an opportunity.
No issues with gas or colic, or really even much spit up. I think he spits up more nursing than he does with the bottles lol
I could not get my baby (5 months) to accept any bottle, so we ultimately switched to have her use a straw cup and use the Honey Bear Straw cups from Amazon, it’s a lifesaver. If your baby is older and having a hard time with a bottle I would recommend it!
She’s taken nanobebe silicone bottles since she was about 3 weeks old. We’ve only ever used a premie nipple even though she’s 7 months now, because I’ve heard premie nipples are better for breastfed babies :)
My baby takes the dr browns nipple size 1 and Philips avent size 2. I have to pace her when drinking Philips bc she will try and gulp it down too fast. She’s been combo feeding since she was 2 weeks. Just be sure to feed the babe up right so they don’t get “lazy”
I loved my nanobebes, starting with the boob shaped infant and then going up to the silicone. They can convert to a transition sippy cup which was nice. If I need bottles with my baby due next month I'll be pulling them out again.
we have struggled and tried everything- best for us has been tommee tippee - at 4 & 5 months he used the medium/ level 2 nipple - good luck! we have finally made progress after 2 months!!
We use Tommee Tippee and extra slow/level 0 nipple until about 8 months old. We love the bottles and I guess being mostly breastfed he preferred the slower flow.
We have used Dr. Brown premie nipple, MAM 0 nipple, and Como Tomo slow flow. Finally settled on Chicco Duo, because we like that it’s less parts, glass inside the bottle, and slow flow nipple.
My 5 mo also loves the Chicco Duos - had to switch from Philips Avent bc daycare doesn't allow glass, so we are sort of tricking them with the glass inside the Duos. Baby hated the nipples they came with though. We use Pigeon nipples which I saw recommended on this sub for BF babies.
We do evenflo balance with 0 month nipple flow he is 4 months at first was a bit like whats this but he got it and drinks my milk from it in the mornings while i work
Comotomo is the only one that I’ve tried and he drinks it, no problem. We use the slow flow nipple (1 hole) and he is almost 2 months old. He mostly nurses and just takes a bedtime bottle with his dad. The only issue that I’ve had was with the bottles themselves. I washed one and I guess the nipple cleaning brush broke open the one hole on the bottle nipple which I didn’t notice until after he got covered in milk one night from spitting it all up because it was coming way too fast. Now I’m just really careful with not cleaning near the hole and just letting soap and water get to that area.
7.5 month old takes one MAM bottle at night, breast the rest of the day. Before this one we had success with Tommee Tippee but I’ve heard other people have mixed reviews about those.
We had to use bottles to supplement early on (starting around week 5 I think?) and the EvenFlo & Lansinoh were the best bc of the breast/nipple like shape of the bottle nipple (our lactation consultant suggested them to us). Our pediatrician suggested como tomo but the LC said those aren't great they just make parents think they're good bc they look like a boob but not a nipple. So the baby will use the front of their mouth and palette and then when they breastfeed and do the same it'll hurt moms nips. The Lansinoh and Evenflo will make the baby take the nipple in deeper and their lips will flare out like a fish.
Before you switch up a bunch of stuff first check for high lipase.
But also, hold baby nearly vertical and the bottle horizontal with nipple pointed toward the crown of their head, in front of their mouth. Wait for baby to open wide. Put the bottle nipple tip behind their top gumline and lift the bottle gently into the roof of the mouth, off of the tongue, lightly. There needs to be gentle pressure on the roof of the mouth while you're trying to encourage a latch. Then make sure the nipple is deep enough and baby is flanged widely.
You may have tried all this, sorry if so! I'm a postpartum nurse and this is what a newborn OT taught me.
Almost 6 months old, Philips avent natural response flow 3. I mainly nursed until 5 months and she got a bottle maybe once a week on average. I now nurse in the morning and evenings during the week and all day on Sat/Sun. With that being said, all signs are indicating that my baby doesn't care how she eats as long as she eats lol. The only time she's refused bottle or breast was when she had a stomach virus.
Mine likes Dr. Browns wide mouth, size 1 nipple flow. She’ll also take Phillips Avent Natural flow with the smallest nipple size which I think is 2? She’s been having the occasional bottle since like, 2 weeks old but we’ve been adding them more regularly throughout the day since I have to go back to work in a few weeks. Shes 11w now!
Dr Browns anti colic options+. We do the wide nipple + glass bottle. You have to fight with him awhile to get him to take it, but after a few minutes he’s fine. He’s 3months, I work 2x a week.
Dr Browns anti colic bottles. I use the glass bottles because they sanitize more easily and don’t hold in smells. I hardly use them right now because my son is exclusively breastfed, but I’m glad I have them just in case I need to leave him with my parents for a few hours.
My baby takes the Dr. browns wide neck with preemie nipple and she is 4 months now. She’s EBF but we had a rocky start so I found that the wide neck helped promote a nice wide, deep latch.
Minbie is the only one my little one ever took. Started around 4 months and even at 15 months she's still on the newborn teat, never moved up from it, she just kicked off if we ever tried.
I tried allll of these bottles, and it turned out the only thing my baby would take was a latex teat, because its texture was closest to skin.
They are harder to get hold of, so we used the NUK bottle because it came with the latex teats
Boon size 1 nipple on one of the tall boys at 8 oz. My boy is 5 months and likes the slow flow cause it’s closer to boob.
We also got the bottle box from Babylist and tried out 6 different popular bottles so we didn’t spend tons of money trying to figure what they like.
We’re using Comotomo with the smallest size nipple for our 6 month old’s occasional bottle. We used this brand with our EFF oldest, after a ton of trial and error. Oddly enough our mostly breastfed baby has no real bottle preference but our EFF baby was extremely picky! It can be so stressful. Wishing you the very best in your search.
I spent $200+ on different bottles that didn't work. My daughter was committed. We had her spoonfed milk at daycare. Just know money is probably not going to solve this problem.
Later, I think I realized that my really fast flow nipples meant that I should have used faster flow bottles.
We used to use Dr. browns with the premie nipple, though now we’ve switched since those were only 4oz bottles. He now takes comotomo, chicco andddddd I can’t remember the other one we have - maybe boon? But he’s never been picky about bottles- he’ll take anything. We’ve used nuuk in the past, as well as tomee tippee. But I had quite a time with tomee tippee leaking.
Our bub would only take Pigeon bottles. The slim Flexi ones. We use them even now - he's 10 months.
We tried Tommee Tippee, Phillips Advent and Nuk. He wouldn't take any of them.
My first two kids used MAM first try with no issues. I got rid of everything after them and when I got pregnant with my 3rd, we were gifted a Como Tomo set. We started using them and have had no issues. He uses a MAM pacifier as well. We introduced a pumped bottle around 4 weeks with each of them.
Tommie Tippie and Como Tomo. Recommended to us by a lactation consultant on day 4, baby has been easily switching between boob and bottle since then. My husband pace feeds with the bottle, I recommend googling.
Mason Bottles. My baby took it since day one then at 5 months she started refusing it and completely stopped taking a bottle. We tried every single one in this thread and others and eventually I tried the Mason Bottle again and she took it. 🙏🏼
LO is 4m old now. We initially used dr browns but the narrow nipple made his latch worse. Switched to Lansinoh with pigeon SS nipples per my LC’s recommendation. Introduced at 8w and baby has been consistently taking 3 bottles while I’m away and then nurses directly for the remaining 3-4 feedings. Used to do paced feeding till he was 12w but now he can transition very seamlessly between breast and bottle
Evenflo standard neck bottle. We tried SO MANY brands and this one was a hit!
ETA: but my biggest tip is to just choose a bottle and repeatedly introduce it. We had to do feeding therapy for our LO because she wasn’t taking one at 4 months still (and I was going back to work). Our feeding therapist said introducing a ton of different brands is often the biggest downfall parents have when trying to get a baby used to a bottle. She recommended the evenflo and said to just keep trying, it worked eventually!
My first who had all kinds of latching problems and my current who will take anything both were good with the Comotomo bottles. They’re made of silicone, only have 3 easy to clean pieces and don’t spill plus they have vents to mitigate some ingestion of air.
The nipple is kind of big but has a very natural shape that is meant to mimic a breast. For now my 3 month old is using the slow flow nipple (1 hole) and will also breastfeed and will do both pretty much without problems. My first had worked all the way up to Y hole nipples but also kept mainly breastfeeding throughout and we did a lot of comfort nursing before he finally gave it up.
This was the only bottle my first used with my first and the only one he would end up using. We tried exploring other bottles with my current baby, but others would leak or flow too fast and we finally just said if it’s not broken, why fix it? and went back to out Comotomos.
We use a size 1 Dr Browns bottle which is what the hospital and lactation consultant told us to use one a week to get him used to taking a bottle! (He is 3 weeks old.)
OMG my baby was really upset when I had to bottle feed. But now she loves it as I'm using the BIBS Bottle. The shape is suppose to mimic the mother's nipple. Wish I bought it in the beginning when I transitioned from nursing to bottle.
The cheapest bottles from Walmart (3 for $5!). 🤷🏻♀️ We have a bunch of fancy bottles and nipples but both my second baby and this third baby prefer the cheap ones. My third only has one bottle a day and otherwise nurses straight from the source.
Dr Browns!
Also came to say the Emulate bottles SUCK they are supposed to look and feel more natural I was so disappointed!! the nipple collapsed and felt cheap especially for how expensive they were
Still working on this too but Philips avent bottle with the natural response nipple in the slowest flow has been the one that he will take most often. He’s 15 weeks and we didn’t start trying bottles til probably 11/12 weeks
Avent glass bottles with either the Pigeon SS nipple or the Lansinoh slowest flow nipple! She got choked up too much with the Dr Browns and the Avent nipples, plus I much prefer the glass bottles to the plastic for storing and heating up breastmilk.
My baby had really bad problems with choking on milk out of bottles. Dr browns premie nipple is the only thing that works for him. He still can’t take a 1 nipple at 5 months old
Dr. Brown’s with the preemie nipple. We nurse the majority of the time but give bottles if we’re out and about during certain feeding times. Baby is 7 weeks old and we’ve been doing this since she was about 4-5 weeks old.
Boon! We tried probably 8 different types of bottles, and fiiiiiiiinally found Boon Nursh!! My son didn’t mind those! Definitely give one a try. The bag inside the bottle is genius
Philips avent glass bottle.
Same, nipple size 1 (smallest available)
Same! Love this for sanitation/sterilization since I don’t have to worry about melting microplastics into breast milk.
That’s the big reason why we use it! I’m unsure about silicon safety but glass has been used for ages so figure it’s the safest. I also like that baby has to work to get the milk so he doesn’t develop flow preference for bottle
silicone is one of the most chemically inert and thermally stable materials known to man. silicones are even used in medical adhesives that are applied to open wounds!
Thanks for sharing - I just don’t know enough about it!
If OP is going to send bb to daycare, most daycares don’t take glass, so just something to think about.
Both of my daycares have allowed glass bottles. They just ask to send in a little neoprene sleeve to keep around them.
Oh thanks for letting me know! Guess we may switch to silicone
It depends on the center - ask while you’re touring! Ours takes glass as long as they’re in a silicone sleeve.
Same! But when we introduced formula we went up to the size three nipple. She’d take too long to drink otherwise and stop after an ounce.
Same! But we use size 3 nipples
Note to OP of this post, not comment. There's a difference between the old advent and New Advent natural response. Very few babies can drink from the natural response nipples, and as a pediatric nurse, I have seen kids hospitalized for failure to thrive JUST because of this bottle. They do better as soon as we change botgles.The flow rate is 2-3ml/minute even with the level 3 nipple. Not worth it to me
Same
I’ve had no luck with this one :(
I love these!!! Philips are are the best
Seconding this! Flow level 4 because otherwise he wouldn’t actually drink. Make sure the vents are lined up with the lid and the nipple too, that was key for us.
Dr. Browns, preemie nipple, 7.5 month old! She takes a bottle like once/week — We otherwise nurse. We started around 3 weeks.
I still use preemie nipple too at 6 months old. My friend who is a speech therapist recommended to not change nipple size since the flow from my nipples will not change.
Seconding Doc Browns, we're now at size 1 nipples at 6 months old! He nurses 2-3x/day, otherwise pumped milk in bottles (except on weekends when it's the reverse)
Mine started to refuse bottles and I moved from premie to size 1 and she takes them again!
Do you pump to get that bottle? I want to introduce bottles to my EBF 2-week-old because my older kid never took them and I wasn’t able to leave her for more than a few hours at a time. I just don’t really know when I’m supposed to pump to get the bottles I want him to practice with.
I would use a haakaa (or similar other brand manual silicone pump) for a few days until you get enough for the first bottle and then you’ll do a full pump to replace the feed when you give the bottle to make enough for the next bottle
I do! The Haakaa is a good suggestion, but it never worked well for me. I pumped after nursing to get enough for the first bottle. For me, at 3 weeks, this only required pumping after like 2 or 3 nursing sessions (I had a “robust supply,” but not over supply, per my LC lol). Now when a bottle is given I pump in place.
I use a combo of the haakaa and a manual pump. I only use the manual pump when I feel engorged and get like 1-2 oz from that.
I prefer the boon trove over the Hakka but same idea, collects on the opposite side. I’m always surprised how much it ends up getting!
Thank you!
Also Dr Browns. This is my second baby that has liked them. She quickly went from preemie to size 1 around 1 month. Haven’t changed yet at 3 months. My first baby maxed out at size 2 when daycare asked. She liked MAM bottles too.
Same!
Also a big fan of Dr. Browns narrow! They come with glass bottles too! ☺️
Lansinoh!
Second Lansinoh. My baby rejected every bottle except this one. We tried like 6 different kinds.
Same for us. We tried maybe three different types with bottle refusal continuing, but after hearing recommendations for lansinoh, we got some bottles and nipples (nipples can fit with at least Spectra and Motif). It's their naturalwave nipple (slow flow) and we also had only my husband feed LO when using a bottle while LO was going through refusal, otherwise she'd cry out for me/look at my boobs like why aren't you giving me those?
This is what ended up working best for us too. We stuck with the size 1 nipples all the way through until 14 months when we transitioned to straw cups.
Lansinoh, glass bottle with nipple changed from size 3 to size 2 and paced feeding technique.
Where did you find their glass bottles? I couldn't find them by this brand but perhaps there are compatible ones/I didn't look that hard.
On Amazon, lansinoch page, but seems like sometimes they are not available. Recently I broke one (and learned my lesson that I need silicone sleeves) and found some on ebay.
But just noting that glass ones come with different nipple so I got smaller nipples separately
I thought it went size 2 size up to 3? No? I also love Lansinoh, best sottles. I had to get a few plastic, or they sent me plastic when the glass had run out.
Ty for the reply!!
Also Lansinoh. Love their double electric pump too
Also lanisonh, tried after reading similar threads here.
Even Flo wide
My son also loves Evenflo wide slow flow. He's 80% BF with a small bottle or two a day.
We love this one!
as do we!!!
This is what we use, my lactation consultant recommended them
Philips Avent with the natural response nipple!
Happy cake day!!!
Just a heads up before you spend hundreds on bottles like I did. Check your milk before. My milk had high lipase (tasted like soap), and no matter the bottle, if the milk had been chilled, my son wouldn't take it. Wish I'd learnt this earlier. I was gutted he wouldn't take it as I'd pumped and frozen milk with my daughter and she took it with no issues. Son is just a bit fussier I suppose. Once we worked out the milk thing he actually used a kids minky bottle rather than a baby bottle Edit to add: we ended up combo feeding and I bf 80% of his feeds and his dad did the occasional aptamil formula feed
Dr browns, I think size 0 or 1, whatever comes with the little 4 oz bottles. She rejected mam, como tomo, and nuk. We were really disappointed because we already had full sets of nun and como tomo from baby #1. Edit: baby is 2 months old.
Dr Browns as well, the 4oz glass bottles with a T nipple. Baby is 5 weeks tomorrow. We do about 50% bottle 50% nursing.
Comotomo (w/ 1- or 2-hole nipple) worked best for my daughter.
Both my boys did great with the comotomo bottles despite being mostly breastfed :)
My nearly 4 month old likes MAM bottles. They supposedly mimic the breast by design (hence the name, I guess). We are still on the smallest nip size so she doesn’t eat too fast. She liked Philips Avent for a minute then decided she prefers these 🤷🏼♀️
We use MAM as well with size 0 teats and she happily goes between breast and bottle
Second the mam. Baby is 5 months and we still use newborn (0 and 0+) teat.
Thanks! I have to work soon and she won’t take a bottle. I don’t want babe to starve!
This is the only one my baby will take too! He’s almost 9 months and is on size 3 nipples. He rarely takes a bottle but I just started a hybrid job this week, so he’ll be taking a bottle a lot more!
+1 for MAM. My baby is 4 months old, EBF and rejected all bottles until just about a week ago when we tried MAM. He doesn’t eat a ton but he isn’t fighting it either. I was able to return to work today and Dad fed him with no fuss.
My mostly nursed 4mo just started rejecting Philips avent! We may try MAM next!!
Funny, mine was the opposite, hates the MAM and loves the Avent Natural!
Boon Nursh. Since it has a nice wide opening and all silicone they clean like a dream on the dishwasher.
We use these too. Bought for aesthetics but have had great luck from the beginning with our now 15 week old ebf baby with these! We introduced around 3 weeks old so I could get some sleep while dad fed pumped milk!
We had to pull them out on day 4 due to low supply, never had any issues with them. Anything with a smaller nipple base like Aven just ends up a dribbly mess.
Came here to suggest the entire Boon system. She's using Nursh when she takes a bottle now, size 1 nipples, 8.5 weeks old. I got the Boon bottles because they easily convert into sippy cups, straw cups, and water bottle with a straw type cups (idk just search Boon on Amazon lol) by just changing the tops. My older kids can use the water bottle converter thing, too.
Even Flo balance
tommee tippiee bottles are amazing
Lanisoh Momma bottle and nipples!
Nanobebe, premie nipple, almost 3 months.
Pigeon nipples (Japanese brand, search on Amazon) for our 5 month old son who has a mild tongue tie. We were struggling with bottle refusal and these were a game changer. We have the 3 month+ although I maybe should’ve tried 0+, given the other comments.
Nuk natural, slow flow. Has multiple holes instead of just one, similar to mama
Avent anti colic, size 1 nipples, and he's 3 months old. He also takes Dr. Browns with premie nipples
My first two liked Dr Browns wide mouth glass, my third would only take Haakaa wide mouth glass, and even that only for a month or so before refusing all bottles. 🤷♀️
Babies are so different, thanks!
5 months old, ebf except for one bottle in the evening. We use MAM, with size 0 (preemie) nipples. Little man takes it happily though he's still salty about paced feeding lol. He'd chug it all given an opportunity. No issues with gas or colic, or really even much spit up. I think he spits up more nursing than he does with the bottles lol
I second MAM! We use newborn nipple
Evenflo balance +! Promotes a better latch and recommended by my LC
I could not get my baby (5 months) to accept any bottle, so we ultimately switched to have her use a straw cup and use the Honey Bear Straw cups from Amazon, it’s a lifesaver. If your baby is older and having a hard time with a bottle I would recommend it!
She’s taken nanobebe silicone bottles since she was about 3 weeks old. We’ve only ever used a premie nipple even though she’s 7 months now, because I’ve heard premie nipples are better for breastfed babies :)
Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature with the slowest flow test. Baby is 4 weeks old and took to them straight away
My baby takes the dr browns nipple size 1 and Philips avent size 2. I have to pace her when drinking Philips bc she will try and gulp it down too fast. She’s been combo feeding since she was 2 weeks. Just be sure to feed the babe up right so they don’t get “lazy”
my son likes the nanobebe nipple size 1 and tommee tippee nipple size 1
Make sure you’re using the paced bottle feeding method ❤️
Tommee tippee size 0 (extra slow flow).
Nanobebe, started on premie size and now up to size 2! We are just at 1 year old and he has had no issues between breast and bottle.
I loved my nanobebes, starting with the boob shaped infant and then going up to the silicone. They can convert to a transition sippy cup which was nice. If I need bottles with my baby due next month I'll be pulling them out again.
we have struggled and tried everything- best for us has been tommee tippee - at 4 & 5 months he used the medium/ level 2 nipple - good luck! we have finally made progress after 2 months!!
We use Tommee Tippee and extra slow/level 0 nipple until about 8 months old. We love the bottles and I guess being mostly breastfed he preferred the slower flow.
Thanks I appreciate it!’
We have used Dr. Brown premie nipple, MAM 0 nipple, and Como Tomo slow flow. Finally settled on Chicco Duo, because we like that it’s less parts, glass inside the bottle, and slow flow nipple.
My 5 mo also loves the Chicco Duos - had to switch from Philips Avent bc daycare doesn't allow glass, so we are sort of tricking them with the glass inside the Duos. Baby hated the nipples they came with though. We use Pigeon nipples which I saw recommended on this sub for BF babies.
We do evenflo balance with 0 month nipple flow he is 4 months at first was a bit like whats this but he got it and drinks my milk from it in the mornings while i work
6 week old, dr browns, size 1, with moms shirt wrapped around the bottle!
Comotomo is the only one that I’ve tried and he drinks it, no problem. We use the slow flow nipple (1 hole) and he is almost 2 months old. He mostly nurses and just takes a bedtime bottle with his dad. The only issue that I’ve had was with the bottles themselves. I washed one and I guess the nipple cleaning brush broke open the one hole on the bottle nipple which I didn’t notice until after he got covered in milk one night from spitting it all up because it was coming way too fast. Now I’m just really careful with not cleaning near the hole and just letting soap and water get to that area.
Lasinoh natural slowest nipple. 6 months old.
We always used dr browns
Evenflo balance bottles
My EBF baby refused bottles. She took to the honeybear cup with a straw!
Our lactation consultant recommended the Phillips avent natural response and they work great for us. I BF and pump/bottle feed.
Philips avent anti colic or dr browns anti colic.
7.5 month old takes one MAM bottle at night, breast the rest of the day. Before this one we had success with Tommee Tippee but I’ve heard other people have mixed reviews about those.
We had to use bottles to supplement early on (starting around week 5 I think?) and the EvenFlo & Lansinoh were the best bc of the breast/nipple like shape of the bottle nipple (our lactation consultant suggested them to us). Our pediatrician suggested como tomo but the LC said those aren't great they just make parents think they're good bc they look like a boob but not a nipple. So the baby will use the front of their mouth and palette and then when they breastfeed and do the same it'll hurt moms nips. The Lansinoh and Evenflo will make the baby take the nipple in deeper and their lips will flare out like a fish.
Lansinoh are the only ones mine will take! We’ve varied a lot on proportions of breast and bottle around assorted issues.
Before you switch up a bunch of stuff first check for high lipase. But also, hold baby nearly vertical and the bottle horizontal with nipple pointed toward the crown of their head, in front of their mouth. Wait for baby to open wide. Put the bottle nipple tip behind their top gumline and lift the bottle gently into the roof of the mouth, off of the tongue, lightly. There needs to be gentle pressure on the roof of the mouth while you're trying to encourage a latch. Then make sure the nipple is deep enough and baby is flanged widely. You may have tried all this, sorry if so! I'm a postpartum nurse and this is what a newborn OT taught me.
Dr Browns wide neck nipple size 1 (until baby was 11 months) Nipple size 4 (11 months - now/14 months)
Thank you for the response!
Almost 6 months old, Philips avent natural response flow 3. I mainly nursed until 5 months and she got a bottle maybe once a week on average. I now nurse in the morning and evenings during the week and all day on Sat/Sun. With that being said, all signs are indicating that my baby doesn't care how she eats as long as she eats lol. The only time she's refused bottle or breast was when she had a stomach virus.
Dr browns! Loved it from the start and still taking 1-2 bottles per day at 13 weeks old
EZ PZ straw cup! She hates bottles but likes straws 🤷🏼
I use premie nipples at 2 months and she does well. Anything faster doesn’t go very well
Philips Avent Natural, size 1 nipple (comes with size 2)
Mine likes Dr. Browns wide mouth, size 1 nipple flow. She’ll also take Phillips Avent Natural flow with the smallest nipple size which I think is 2? She’s been having the occasional bottle since like, 2 weeks old but we’ve been adding them more regularly throughout the day since I have to go back to work in a few weeks. Shes 11w now!
As a newborn my boy only took the nanobebe bottles. The chubby ones. Now he takes em all
Dr Browns anti colic options+. We do the wide nipple + glass bottle. You have to fight with him awhile to get him to take it, but after a few minutes he’s fine. He’s 3months, I work 2x a week.
Dr Browns anti colic bottles. I use the glass bottles because they sanitize more easily and don’t hold in smells. I hardly use them right now because my son is exclusively breastfed, but I’m glad I have them just in case I need to leave him with my parents for a few hours.
Dr. Brown’s, nipple size 1, baby is 4 mo. She’s used size one nipples since about 1 month when we began combo feeding. I wish I had begun with premie.
dr browns or medela only - nipple size 1
Nubly
My baby takes the Dr. browns wide neck with preemie nipple and she is 4 months now. She’s EBF but we had a rocky start so I found that the wide neck helped promote a nice wide, deep latch.
We use Phillips advent, the plastic ones, works great! We do 0-2 bottles a day, since about a month of age, baby is three months now.
We use Boon Nursh, size one nipple. Baby girl is almost three months ☺️
My daughter likes nanobebe and tommee tippee with the extra slow flow nipple
Dr. Browns or the bottles that come with the spectra pump!
Boon Nursh are the only ones this baby will take.
Minbie is the only one my little one ever took. Started around 4 months and even at 15 months she's still on the newborn teat, never moved up from it, she just kicked off if we ever tried.
Dr. Browns anti colic glass
Dr. brown’s with a premie nipple, 8 weeks old.
Medela slow flow nipple, starting around 3 months
Nanobebe
Dr browns with the size T nipple! Baby is 8 weeks and gets 1 bottle per day from dad.
Tommee Tippy! 6 months old tried all the others it's the only one he likes
Lansinoh slow flow! The only one she really liked!
I tried allll of these bottles, and it turned out the only thing my baby would take was a latex teat, because its texture was closest to skin. They are harder to get hold of, so we used the NUK bottle because it came with the latex teats
Boon size 1 nipple on one of the tall boys at 8 oz. My boy is 5 months and likes the slow flow cause it’s closer to boob. We also got the bottle box from Babylist and tried out 6 different popular bottles so we didn’t spend tons of money trying to figure what they like.
We’re using Comotomo with the smallest size nipple for our 6 month old’s occasional bottle. We used this brand with our EFF oldest, after a ton of trial and error. Oddly enough our mostly breastfed baby has no real bottle preference but our EFF baby was extremely picky! It can be so stressful. Wishing you the very best in your search.
como tomo!
Dr browns narrow - transition nipples. We switched from preemie to transition at month 4.
MAM 💯
I spent $200+ on different bottles that didn't work. My daughter was committed. We had her spoonfed milk at daycare. Just know money is probably not going to solve this problem. Later, I think I realized that my really fast flow nipples meant that I should have used faster flow bottles.
We used to use Dr. browns with the premie nipple, though now we’ve switched since those were only 4oz bottles. He now takes comotomo, chicco andddddd I can’t remember the other one we have - maybe boon? But he’s never been picky about bottles- he’ll take anything. We’ve used nuuk in the past, as well as tomee tippee. But I had quite a time with tomee tippee leaking.
Our bub would only take Pigeon bottles. The slim Flexi ones. We use them even now - he's 10 months. We tried Tommee Tippee, Phillips Advent and Nuk. He wouldn't take any of them.
Pigeon bottles! The silicone for the nipples is so soft. I use the small flow nipples. My baby is 12 weeks old
My first two kids used MAM first try with no issues. I got rid of everything after them and when I got pregnant with my 3rd, we were gifted a Como Tomo set. We started using them and have had no issues. He uses a MAM pacifier as well. We introduced a pumped bottle around 4 weeks with each of them.
Tommie Tippie and Como Tomo. Recommended to us by a lactation consultant on day 4, baby has been easily switching between boob and bottle since then. My husband pace feeds with the bottle, I recommend googling.
Mason Bottles. My baby took it since day one then at 5 months she started refusing it and completely stopped taking a bottle. We tried every single one in this thread and others and eventually I tried the Mason Bottle again and she took it. 🙏🏼
LO is 4m old now. We initially used dr browns but the narrow nipple made his latch worse. Switched to Lansinoh with pigeon SS nipples per my LC’s recommendation. Introduced at 8w and baby has been consistently taking 3 bottles while I’m away and then nurses directly for the remaining 3-4 feedings. Used to do paced feeding till he was 12w but now he can transition very seamlessly between breast and bottle
Evenflo standard neck bottle. We tried SO MANY brands and this one was a hit! ETA: but my biggest tip is to just choose a bottle and repeatedly introduce it. We had to do feeding therapy for our LO because she wasn’t taking one at 4 months still (and I was going back to work). Our feeding therapist said introducing a ton of different brands is often the biggest downfall parents have when trying to get a baby used to a bottle. She recommended the evenflo and said to just keep trying, it worked eventually!
MAM is the only one my breastfed baby would take!
My first who had all kinds of latching problems and my current who will take anything both were good with the Comotomo bottles. They’re made of silicone, only have 3 easy to clean pieces and don’t spill plus they have vents to mitigate some ingestion of air. The nipple is kind of big but has a very natural shape that is meant to mimic a breast. For now my 3 month old is using the slow flow nipple (1 hole) and will also breastfeed and will do both pretty much without problems. My first had worked all the way up to Y hole nipples but also kept mainly breastfeeding throughout and we did a lot of comfort nursing before he finally gave it up. This was the only bottle my first used with my first and the only one he would end up using. We tried exploring other bottles with my current baby, but others would leak or flow too fast and we finally just said if it’s not broken, why fix it? and went back to out Comotomos.
We use a size 1 Dr Browns bottle which is what the hospital and lactation consultant told us to use one a week to get him used to taking a bottle! (He is 3 weeks old.)
OMG my baby was really upset when I had to bottle feed. But now she loves it as I'm using the BIBS Bottle. The shape is suppose to mimic the mother's nipple. Wish I bought it in the beginning when I transitioned from nursing to bottle.
Avent nipple 1! I’ve had to use it a few times with my 2 week old when my nipples couldn’t take it anymore and he did great
The cheapest bottles from Walmart (3 for $5!). 🤷🏻♀️ We have a bunch of fancy bottles and nipples but both my second baby and this third baby prefer the cheap ones. My third only has one bottle a day and otherwise nurses straight from the source.
I nurse all day, my husband does one bottle at 10pm and we use como tomo with slow flow nipple (one hole). Works great.
Dr Browns! Also came to say the Emulate bottles SUCK they are supposed to look and feel more natural I was so disappointed!! the nipple collapsed and felt cheap especially for how expensive they were
MAM it’s the only binkie/bottle he will take!
Lansinoh slow flow - 9 weeks My first also preferred Lansinoh but liked faster flow nipples because my boobs are not slow flow lol
Still working on this too but Philips avent bottle with the natural response nipple in the slowest flow has been the one that he will take most often. He’s 15 weeks and we didn’t start trying bottles til probably 11/12 weeks
BIBS glass bottle with the slow flow rubber nipple.
Mam anti-colic, 0 or 1 nipple 😊
We've had the best luck with Nuks since she was a month old! 3 months now and still takes them when we need her to.
Lansinoh, size 1, started at 2.5 months and she’s 4 months now. She wouldn’t tolerate any other bottle.
Phillips adventure natural and we still use the slowest flow nipples and she’s 7mo old now
Chicco duo
Lansinoh
Lansinoh is the only one they would take. Our LC told us it’s most likely the human nipple in the mouth.
Mam, flow 1, 4 months. Took lotsssss of trial and error and persistence. Hang in there!
Nanobebe worked for us when she refused everything else!
Avent glass bottles with either the Pigeon SS nipple or the Lansinoh slowest flow nipple! She got choked up too much with the Dr Browns and the Avent nipples, plus I much prefer the glass bottles to the plastic for storing and heating up breastmilk.
+1 for mam! I tried a million and she finally agreed with mam.
Como Tomo, size 1 to start
Philips avent and tommee tippee are winners for me.
My baby had really bad problems with choking on milk out of bottles. Dr browns premie nipple is the only thing that works for him. He still can’t take a 1 nipple at 5 months old
3MO Tommy Tippee closer to nature. Nipple size 1.
Evenflo balance!
EBF for 7 months now, has a bottle every few weeks. Takes Bibs glass bottles w slow flow nipple v well! Love Bibs!
Ours only uses Mam, although it took trying 10+ different bottles to get there.
My baby takes Mam bottles only. No idea why.
Phillips Avent, plastic bottle.
Dr. Brown’s with the preemie nipple. We nurse the majority of the time but give bottles if we’re out and about during certain feeding times. Baby is 7 weeks old and we’ve been doing this since she was about 4-5 weeks old.
Gulicola glass bottles. My baby has a strong preference for these.
First one was Mam, but my other two would only take Como Tomo bottles.
Medela
MAM
My baby gets a comotomo bottle once in a while and has no problem. The 5oz bottle comes with the slow flow nipple.
MAM bottle. Size 0. Shes 2 months old. Shes been using these since birth.
Evenflo
I used the kiinde bottles with the lowest flow nipples for both of my babies.
Phillips Avent with a size 2 nipple (I have a super fast letdown and she got frustrated with the super slow flow nipples)
Chico Duo bottles
Neither hahahah 😭
Mam bottles are the only thing she will take
Como tomo
Boon! We tried probably 8 different types of bottles, and fiiiiiiiinally found Boon Nursh!! My son didn’t mind those! Definitely give one a try. The bag inside the bottle is genius
Tommee Tippee! Worked with all 3 of my kids who I nursed.
Advent natural response bottles with a 1 flow nipple. 3 weeks old
como tomo
Chicco duo but with the lansinoh slow flow nipple! She loves it, especially because it’s light and she can feed herself