Dr Brown or NUK

[sharonhall]

Hi ladies
I am 19 weeks with my first and starting to look into feeding past breast. I have been advised by a friend that Dr Brown bottles are supposed to be really good as are NUK but she used neither. Has anybody tried and tested these to know which are better.
I can't believe how much stuff there is to buy!! I'm overwhelmed haha. So any advice would be appreciated x x x

Medela calma have my vote. The baby only eats if he/she sucks on it properly, so it doesn't gush and chokes the LO

Oh no not another haha. Thank you will have a look at them too x

We tried numerous bottles and teats. Only success we had was NUK with latex teats not the silicone ones but it may have simply just been persistence in the end, as I had to get dd to take a bottle before I went back to work Good Luck!

We were advised to try Dr Browns, and had mixed results, so once DD got to about 3.5-4 months we tried her with free flow sippy cup instead. This was more successful and I had an evening out or two. I've been giving her a cup regularly in preparation for going back to work .
However the other day I had no clean cups so I tried a Dr Browns. She guzzled from it like a pro!
So I would say, don't get too hung up on getting your LO to drink from a bottle, and end up buying all the different ones. Worth trying sippy cup from about 3 months if you need to leave them (it's best to wean them from bottle to cup eventually anyway, so it's like skipping a step!).

Sorry about that :o
We tried the advent bottles but, the flow was such that the poor bunny nearly drowned, so we gave the bottle that came with the medela express pump a go and it worked a treat.

Big fan of the Dr Brown stuff: DD has never had any problem with them, or with switching between them and the breast. The sterilising unit is also fab: just bung it in the microwave with all the bits in for 6 mins with 6oz of water and you're done (don't know if this is normal, could be every system has the same). Warning, though, that there are 6 parts to the Dr Brown bottles: without a dishwasher, that's a fair bit to wash up by hand, especially as a couple of the bits are fiddly and need their own brush to make sure you don't get encrusted milk. We do have a dishwasher and I bought enough bottles to ensure that I could wash one set and use the other, in sync with our normal dishwasher rhythm. Such a faff otherwise.

Thank you all so much. I really appreciate it. I want to breastfeed but wanted to express too so hubby could bottle feed and feel connected too. Thank you all again x x

We are using NUK latex teats - our hospital neonatal ward recommended them as being the most similar to a nipple. We've had to use bottles occasionally from birth (to give meds etc) and there's been no negative impact on DS' ability to breastfeed.

We used Dr Brown and breasted with no problems. Important to remember that they come with three stages of nipples depending on the age of the baby. So a stage one nipple has less flow than a stage 3.

precarious can I ask did you put them in one of those bottle box type things in the dishwasher or in loose? I am planning on dr browns again this time but remember the hours spent cleaning them!! Does the dishwasher clean them completely or do you tend to rinse them again afterwards?

Breastfed not breasted!

My only success is also with NUK latex teats (the brown ones). Anything else DD will just bite on them. DD used only the ones for newborns.

Have to say DD was only on bottles for about 2 months. I went back to work at 7mo, and she was given bottles during the day. She stopped drinking them by 9mo, and was only on water in a sippy cup from then. (Still bf morning and bedtime). I don't think breastfed babies are as attached to the plastic teats as ff babies. My advice will be not to spend too much on the bottles and accessories for bottle feeding, given they are supposed to be completely switching to cups by 1yo.

I guess a benefit of it is that DD wasn't on a dummy either .

my DD is 5mo and i have tried almost every brand of bottle/teat possible but DD wont take any of them!! in fact Dr Browns are about the only ones i've not tried as i thought they looked similar to the avent ones, which DD didn't like. maybe i'll have a last ditch attempt....

Strawberry The cutlery cage in our dishwasher is large and deep enough to take the various bits, so I didn't bother buying a bespoke rack. Also, our cutlery cage is on the bottom shelf, so gets a much more vigorous wash than whatever's on the top shelf. It's also hotter down there on the bottom shelf (where our filament is). I'm also a rinse-before-it-goes-in-the-dishwasher type, so nothing in there is ever visibly dirty/has bits of food stuck to it. So no, I don't rinse any further. I do keep the rinse aid topped up, though.

TeaandHobnobs (great name btw) can you advise: do the latex nuk teats come in small feed hole size- I would have thought so if neonatal unit recommend but I can only find medium as the smallest.
My DS is 10 weeks and being a wee monkey about taking expressed milk. Very hit and miss but this time he didn't even take it from his Daddy when DS should have been too tired to object (kind of dream feed). Have been using variflow with tommee tippee bottles. Have now bought NUK first choice bottle which comes with silicone and also some latex size 1 medium hole teats to try.
Does anyone know how or why the bottle shape/brand matters? (I understand why the teat would but the bottle is surely just there to hold the milk? sorry if being thick)
Also is there anywhere I can find out which teats are compatible with which bottles?
Any tips to get him on to EBM gratefully received.