New mum, which bottles to buy?

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I'm a first time mum, my baby is due in 3 weeks. I'm planning to breast feed but want to buy bottles as back up. Which bottles would everyone recommend?

Tommy tippee. Worked well for me, anti colic and supposed to be the closest one to breast feeling

I hate the tommy tippee personally, they're so thin-walled. I got the Philips Avent natural anti-colic range and they seem much better quality but are more expensive

I bought Medela bottles that went straight onto my breast pump - still going strong now at 15 months.

I am a foster carer and find nuk are the best for transitioning/ mixed feeding. Tommee tippee are good all rounders with clear measurements. Whatever you go for, buy the steriliser afterwards and try the bottles in it first, many sterilisers only manage their own brand of bottles. The boots steam steriliser is a good all rounder though.

I second Nuk bottles we mixed fed!

Another vote for tommee tippee from me.

I breast fed til my boobs started giving up, then mixed and when they completely went up the spout just bottle fed. So DS didn't mind the difference, though I hear boys aren't generally fussy as long as they're fed! TT also fix straight onto a breast pump and you can change them to a sippy cup as they get older.

You might end up trying a few out before you stick to one kind. I would by one or two first and then see if you like them before you buy more.
I've got a very windy baby and spent a fortune buying sets when I should have just tried buying one and trying it!

Midwife recommended NUK to us as we wanted to mix feed. Anecdotally heard good things from other mums too.

Honestly different people find different things work. Some people don't manage to get their baby to take a bottle at all when bf and just go straight onto a cup later on. So I would hang fire buying a full set. If you decide not to bf and go onto bottles then unless you are in a really rural area you will be able to get some bottles when you need them. If you want a bottle or 2 for expressing then the advice is to wait for 6 weeks so that bf is established before introducing a teat. For adding the occasional expressed feed then I'd buy single bottles of different types until you find one the baby gets on with.

We got tommee tippee because they are the ones that match our breast pump :)

Mothercare innosense seem to be quite good. DS is mostly breastfed but has a couple of formula feeds per week. He can't get anything from avent bottles

Tommee tippee because they were half price in tesco. DS has one bottle a day

Medela Calma. Lots of people don't like them - they do make the baby work for it - but I found them great and DD never showed a hint of nipple confusion.

I have a medela pump which came with a bottle but dh won't take it (too lazy). So I use the bottle to express then pour into a different bottle.
Will happily take avent and tommee tippee. I have a TT cold water steriliser which fits them all. Might be worth getting 1 of a couple of types instead of a big box of 1 type.

Nuk were the brand favoured by the nicu for prems. Any with a rubber rather than silicon teat are more boob like.

Asda little angels wide bottles with Nuk teats. Cant remember the sterilizer (a tallish one maybe mam?) but we could fit loads of bottles in it at one time as it fitted anything

Thanks guys for the tips. My bestie has bought me the mothercare innosense starter kit, so I'm hoping it will be ok. I'll give it a go.

I use Dr Browns, which are great for reducing the amount of air baby takes in whilst feeding.

I agree with other posters though - only buy one per brand at first as you may find that your little one has their own preferences and may refuse one type of bottle, but will happily take other brands

Littlemiss why are you bottle feeding your DH?

Avent several years ago and Tommee Tippee this time round - happy with both.

You might want to read the instructions for whichever you do choose! I didn't bother and we ended up with bright orange TT bottles as they were in the dishwasher with plates with tomato pasta sauce on them. I don't know if this happens with other bottles.