I was helping a friend with her registry and she was planning to use the bottles that come with the pump (and extras) for feeding expressed milk. Between nannying, babysitting and just visiting lots of people with breastfed babies I have literally never met a family that feeds from those. Most use Avent or Dr. Brown's with a few variations.
What has your experience been? Is there a reason people don't use them?
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
I used the Medela bottles and Dr. Brown's. I liked them . . . it was super convenient, especially in the early months (minimizing milk loss during transfers!).
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
We usually used Tommee Tippee but LO would use the Medela bottles and nipples if we were out and about or something. I just didn't love using them too often because the nipple is so narrow (aka so different from the breast) and I wanted to make sure she continued to have no issues switching back and forth between bottle and breast.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
Oh gosh, we use Medela all the time. The bottles are fine. A very no-frills bottle. We didn't need the fancy stuff in Dr. Brown's (and our ped said she thought the special hoses, etc, were basically bs) and they have worked great for us. Easy to clean, too.
Eta: E was never actually breastfed, so she struggled with the wide nipples. So the narrow Medela were key for us
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
I wanted to use them but my LO never liked the nipples!
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
@blackbird: Yeah . . . I miss the *good ol' days* of just having to scrub up the Medela bottles . . . the Dr. B's are time consuming(!) and I didn't ever notice a difference.
GOLD / pomegranate / 3688 posts
My LC is *very* anti the Medela nipples... (but you can use Dr. Brown's nipples with Medela bottles I think). She says that the base of the nipple is too wide and that it forces the baby to open it's jaw in a weird way that can disrupt BFing.
GOLD / kiwi / 605 posts
my husband prefers using the breast milk storage bottles- because they fit the standard size medium flow nipples that we used in the hospital-- but I prefer Tommee Tippee with the slow flow nipples
This is a random side note, but weirdly our baby girl will not take the Tommee Tippee bottles from him- she literally pulls away-- I use the Tommee Tippee ones with her just fine....
pomelo / 5258 posts
We do. We had pretty epic bottle struggles from week 6 to 4 months when I went back to work. I tried every bottle I could find in that period. Daycare assured me the problem was that the bottles were not me and not that I hadn't found the right bottle. So I sent LO off to daycare with Medela since (1) I had a full set of those (2) they were way cheaper than the fancy bottles we tried (3) they are easy to clean. She took to them and we never looked back.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
I started with Medela but switched to Tommee Tippee because of LO liked the nipple better. I loved the convenience of them though!
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
@septca: I BF and used the Medelas without issue. The (base of the) nipples weren't/aren't any wider than my Dr. Bs or Avents.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
I BFed and we used them~ without any issue and also used TT bottles.
grapefruit / 4649 posts
Thanks everyone! I will pass along the info, it seems like there is just a lot of personal/baby preference. I suggested she get just a couple of one other type so she could try it off need be.
GOLD / pomegranate / 3688 posts
@MsLipGloss: I was only told that by an LC, I never tried them myself.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
yeah babies are picky about bottles. We have four types at home, and use two exclusively
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
We used them in the beginning until we moved to Tommee Tippee for some reason I can't remember now...
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
we did. my LO wasn't picky at all until I gave up pumping for months and after that she wouldn't use any.
coconut / 8472 posts
We don't use them. DH typically is the one to feed with bottles and he tried it once and said he hated them. I also don't think they're as good for switching between breastfeeding as the Avents we usually use. BTW, we just got a couple adaptor rings and can now attach the Avents directly to the Medela pump, so no need for the Medela bottles anyway.
honeydew / 7811 posts
I BF and we use the Medela bottles! Never tried anything else and have no issues!
nectarine / 2152 posts
We use them! We also use BornFree but up until about a month ago (LOs are 6 months old), we only used the Medela ones. It was just easiest, since that's what I pumped into, so we figured why add an extra step when this was working out fine?
nectarine / 2530 posts
We use them (I BF while I'm home, pump at work). We also use Playtex VentAire Wide and Lansinoh mOmma. Of them DH hates the Lansinoh; he finds them harder to hold.
E doesn't seem to care which she has.
cantaloupe / 6791 posts
@ShootingStar: same here
DH used a Medela bottle once and he hated it. We use Avent and TT bottles.
squash / 13764 posts
Those are actually the ones my LO took best! I'm annoyed I didn't try them first before buying others ones to try!
coconut / 8861 posts
We used Medela bottles when we were transitioning to weaning. I liked them a lot. I also used Avent up until we switched to Oxo sippy cups.
grapefruit / 4049 posts
They're so convenient since you pump right into them. I used to transfer the milk to other bottles, hating all those drops of liquid gold that would go to waste! Then I realized LO was fine drinking straight from the them!
watermelon / 14467 posts
Hyla seems to like the Playtex nurser bottles. She took a Tommie tippee once, but I find the bottle hard to hold.
clementine / 948 posts
I'm EPing and using the medela bottles. But, obviously, my LO won't latch so I can't comment on switching back from breast to bottle. Medela are easy to clean.
kiwi / 543 posts
I use the Medela bottles with the calma nipple (I hate the ones that come with the bottles, they're too small). When I'm not freezing milk, I'll just pump into the bottles and leave them in the fridge - so all DH will have to do is pop a nipple on it.
kiwi / 548 posts
The nipples do tend to collapse on my Medelas, but it hasn't stopped me from continuing to use them! For some reason, it never occurred to me to use them with my first LO, but with #2 EVERYTHING is about convenience!
pear / 1961 posts
We only used the Medela ones. LO BF almost exclusively for 3 months (only a random bottle here or there), and then used the Medela bottles at daycare until almost a year. We never tried any other kind since there appeared to be no problems either with drinking out of the bottle or switching between bottle & breast.
clementine / 828 posts
I use the Ameda bottles (I have an Ameda purely yours), but with a Dr. Brown's premie nipple. The Ameda bottles don't come with nipples, but any standard nipple fits. I chose the Dr. Brown's premie nipples for the slow flow, because I had read that the flow is more of a problem for "nipple confusion" than the shape. My baby has not had any problems going back and forth between breast and bottle, although he has a slight preference for the breast.
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