Bottle Talk

[gldnbearz]

What kind do you use?
- Dr. Brown's Natural Flow

How many do you have?
- About 10-12, almost enough for 2 days

What's your washing routine?
- Husband hand washes because he doesn't like the cloudy dishwasher outcome on the silicone nipples.

How do you store your milk (fresh and frozen)?
- I have a limited output of approx 15 oz a day so I just keep it in the fridge in the pump bottles until feeding or transfer time.

[madalynw]

What kind do you use?
Avent classic and Medela

How many do you have?
6 Avent, several Medela but only 2 nipple sets. She takes 7 bottles throughout the day.

What's your washing routine?
Hand wash all at the end of day or in dishwasher if there is room.

How do you store your milk (fresh and frozen)?
Fresh - top shelf back if fridge in pre-portioned amts.
frozen - kind of haphazardly in Lansinoh bags stacked in end in tinfoil cake pans, 3 ir 3.5 oz per bag. Need to organize those stat.

[mmarie]

Parents choice (cheap walmart brand)
they are 97 cents so we have like 20.
take them apart, throw them in soapy water, let them soak until I have 3 or 4.
I have 3-4 5 oz bottles in the fridge at all times. anything more than that gets frozen in lanisoh bags in 3-6 oz. the smaller ones I have are for mixing with rice cereal and stuff later. When we go out I bring frozen because the milk warms up faster than the bottle if I don't have access to hot water.

[Widget123]

May 17, 2015 13:14:52 GMT -5 badw0lf said:

What kind do you use?
How many do you have?
What's your washing routine?
How do you store your milk (fresh and frozen)?

1. Prefer Dr Browns natural flow
2.  BRU has a promotion every major holiday in which you can get a free DB bottle if you spend so much, so I have a lot- maybe 15+ because of that
3.  Dish washer was always the easiest for me, but we also have a microwave sterilizer which is probably more convenient for the newborn stage
4.  I prefer to use Medela containers for fresh milk in the fridge.  Frozen milk in the any brand bag is fine.

[cloe111479]

What kind do you use? Playtex drop ins.

How many do you have? 6.

What's your washing routine?soap and water and then steam bag once a day

How do you store your milk (fresh and frozen)?
All in storage bags. We usually use babies r us ones.

[mc13]

What kind do you use? Avent Naturals

How many do you have? 4

What's your washing routine? Hand wash with hot water and soap after use then boil nipples every few days.

How do you store your milk (fresh and frozen)?
Fresh in bottles, frozen in storage bags when there is some-after nursing for the first few months she eats almost every thing I pump every day). We use the Lamisoh bags.

[arc07]

May 17, 2015 13:14:52 GMT -5 badw0lf said:

What kind do you use?
How many do you have?
What's your washing routine?
How do you store your milk (fresh and frozen)?

1. Playtex air vent
2. 15-20
3. Wash in dishwasher usually, hand wash also, and sanitize/boil nipples once a week.
4. I can only pump about 3-4 oz. total a day, so it goes in the fridge in the tall skinny milk containers that came with my pump. I usually do about 1 oz. breastmilk mixed with formula about 4 times a day to use it up. 

[wicked22]

What kind do you use? Playtex ventair For feeding & Gerber for Storing
How many do you have? 3-6oz, 5-9oz, 12 of each gerber size.
What's your washing routine? hand wash after each use toss in dishwasher when i need more.
How do you store your milk (fresh and frozen)? In the begging I have an insain amount of 4oz hospital bottle because Little man was a preemie so i used those to freeze but my daycare prefers the bags over the bottles because they warm much faster. I'd keep fresh on ration in the fridge and freeze anything that went past 3 days.

[milfintraining]

Reviving this thread.

My question is more about the nipples. In my research and breastfeeding class I get that I need slow flow nipples. However, will I always need slow flow nipples and we will only be giving the baby breast milk or will I have to increase the nipple flow and they get older?

[gldnbearz]

For babies who switch back and forth with BFing, the suggestion is not to increase flow of the nipple as your nipples don't change.

If baby is exclusively bottle fed, there might be a time to increase the nipple flow if baby is collaspsing the nipple when she sucks.

[milfintraining]

Jun 28, 2015 9:14:42 GMT -5 gldnbearz said:

For babies who switch back and forth with BFing, the suggestion is not to increase flow of the nipple as your nipples don't change.

If baby is exclusively bottle fed, there might be a time to increase the nipple flow if baby is collaspsing the nipple when she sucks.

Great thank you. I plan on switching back and forth.

I would like to BF/pump for at least 12 months or longer. What is the biggest size bottle I should get?

I'm working on our registry now.

ETA additional question

[sarahdawn]

We use munchkin latch bottles

I have 6 plus a few medela bottles that came with my pump. I like the medela because I can easily pour them into my munchkin bottles. I only get enough at each pump for one feeding so I'll use a medela on one boob and a good bottle on the other and combine.

I feel like I'm constantly washing bottles. I wash them by hand.

I store milk in my fridge. I usually only get 1 or 2 bottles ahead and then I use those at night. I have the Kiinde bags if I ever start freezing milk.

[ruemorgan]

What kind do you use?  Avent natural, we have classics that he uses rarely.

How many do you have? 9 naturals

What's your washing routine? I wash them as we use them

How do you store your milk (fresh and frozen)? I store my fresh milk in the bottles, and i store my frozen milk in Nuk freezer bags. I plan on trying up&up freezer bags next.

[ruemorgan]

milfintraining my LO is 4.5 mo and he is still using premie nipples because its the only way he doesnt spit up and have bad gas. I give him a bottle with size 1's once a week, but hes always irritable after and spits up a lot. He was collapsing the nipple for awhile, but be doesnt anymore. Every baby is different, you could always put the nipples on your registry and return/exhange them if you decide not to use them.