If they were the same cost, would you choose plastic or glass? I'm leaning toward the glass Avent Natural!
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We had the glass Avent Natural bottles and loved them. I even dropped them a couple times with no ill effects. I think they were well worth the extra few bucks over the plastic ones.
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Glass!
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Glass. But I don't bring any unnecessary plastic into the house.
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Glass. I ended up going with born free glass bottles because I read a lot of reviews that the advent ones leaked. Baby is due soon so I haven't tried them yet.
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Plastic
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I love my glass avent natural
But I honestly don't know that it is any better than the plastic ones. I warm milk from the fridge in a cup of hot water, and the silicone sleeve that we bought for our bottle (which was crazy expensive by the way) gets water underneath it. We only bought one glass one to see if we liked it, and it is great, but I don't know that it really matters that much. I don't wash the plastic ones in the dishwasher though, just in case.
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I guess glass because I don't put my plastic bottles in the dishwasher because the first time I did that the bottles got really stained from pasta sauce remnants that were in a bowl. But hand washing them is not that big of a deal to spend the money IMO.
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@Mrs. Lion: @Mae: we don't even have a dishwasher, lol! sad for me
Realistically she'll be getting a bottle pretty rarely..but I only have one right now and need more (for my Mom) for a wedding we're going to soon. The glass and plastic are the same price! Suppose glass is better, then.
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Other? We had a Kleen kanteen bottle we really liked. It was thin so you could hear up BM just by running it under hot tap water!
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I wanted to use glass and had 12 of them but H only took Playtex Nursers, which are plastic.
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Glass! We have glass evenflo cheapies and a couple nice life factory ones.
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Glass but our daycare only allows plastic,
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Glass. We have the evenflo type which are nice and cheap. Neither child used them often but did fine with them when necessary.
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Plastic all the way! I am extremely accident prone, so I don't trust myself with glass, let alone my daredevil boys. I get home from work and bottles are scattered everywhere like beer bottles in a frat house
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Plastic - all the daycares I toured didn't allow glass bottles. Plus, I'm the most clumsy person ever and I find a way to break even unbreakable things.
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I really want glass this time around, but we have so many plastic ones from DS1 that I can't see replacing them.
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If you use glass, what do you do to keep it from breaking? Some kind of cover on the outside?
When I was a baby everyone used glass bottles because there wasn't an alternative. But if I try to buy a glass bottle now, my family will freak out because why don't I get plastic so it's not breakable. So I'm wondering how to deflect those questions
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@Mama Bird: a lot of them have silicone sleeves
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E liked to throw bottles so I went with plastic. It doesn't have BPA so I wasn't worried it was "worse". Plus it's lighter
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@Mama Bird: pretty much all the glass bottles I saw are borosilicate glass, which is really hard to break and doesn't shatter even if you do break it. Like I said above, I dropped one here and there and they didn't break -- just bounced. And I didn't even have silicone sleeves on them!
My reason for choosing glass is that even though the plastic bottles don't have BPA, they still contain other bisphenols and other chemicals. I don't get that freaked out about plastic for cold liquids but for warm ones, especially if they'll be heated and cooled repeatedly, it does make me nervous -- that's when chemicals are most likely to leach out. Our daycare was totally fine with glass bottles so there was no reason for us not to use them. We always actively fed DD her bottles, though, rather than handing her one to drink herself, so we weren't worried about her tossing them and the extra weight wasn't really an issue.
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I prefer glass for heating since it is faster but my kids preferred plastic for feeding--mams and tommee tippee.
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Glass has been awesome for us. We used evenflo.
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@Mama Bird: the LOs I nannied had glass evenflo..they never broke! The kids weren't allowed to roam with them.
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We use both. For glass we use Dr Browns. Right now since I a BF with a bottle of pumped milk after I have 12 bottles pre portioned in the fridge of plastic medela bottles with dr brown premie nipples. I prefer glass we just don't have enough for the feeding system we are on right now.
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i would choose glass, easier maintenance
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I'd prefer glass but mostly have been using plastic still!
But I honestly don't know that it is any better than the plastic ones. I warm milk from the fridge in a cup of hot water, and the silicone sleeve that we bought for our bottle (which was crazy expensive by the way) gets water underneath it. We only bought one glass one to see if we liked it, and it is great, but I don't know that it really matters that much. I don't wash the plastic ones in the dishwasher though, just in case.
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