The Best Bottles For Breastfed Babies

The 7 Best Bottles For Breastfed Babies

May 6, 2013

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Medela Calma Breastfeeding Set

One would expect that the bottles designed by a company best known for their breastpumps would be ideal for breastfed babies — and Medela's Calma bottles ($17) are. The bottles unique nipple — it is longer and flatter than most others on the market — requires babies to use the same sucking motion used when breastfeeding in order to create a vacuum to release milk. Though the nipple has several pieces to assemble before it is placed on the bottle, users say it is worth the extra steps.

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by Rebecca M Gruber 15

Medela Calma Breastfeeding Set

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15 Comments

Madame Joy 2 weeks

The Playtex Drop-in Premium bottle is especially great for nursing moms, the disposable liners make them very compatable with pumping: http://www.babygearlab.com/Baby-Bottle-Reviews/Playtex-Drop-ins-Premium-Nurser

lananoel 17 weeks

BREAST FLOW!!!! I loove these bottles. It is very difficult to find a natural feeding bottle that mimics my breasts. I have small nipples so MOST bottles were a total fail. I don't know who has nipples similar to Tommie Tippe bottles, but I HATED them and so did my daughter. The nipple was unrealistic and ENORMOUS. I have seen the poor reviews on the breast flow bottles, but MOST of the faults users "found" with the bottle are due to improper usage. READ the instructions. The bottles are great! I use breast flow bottles the 2 days I am at work.

Madame Joy 25 weeks

BabyGearLab also recommended the Tommee Tippee bottles, and gave it their Best Value Award for Best Baby Bottle. They also looked at 17 other bottles, and gave the Playtex Baby Drop-ins their Top Pick for Breastfeeding Moms. It's a very comprehensive review based on thorough hands-on testing, definitely worth checking out: http://www.babygearlab.com/Baby-Bottle-Reviews

CALFROGYLVR 1 year

I was trying to breast feed but wasn't producing enough.. the dr asked me to supliment but was worried about nipple confusion.. I was using my Tommee Tippee bottles and the baby never had a problem latching on to either.. I highly recomend Tommee Tippee :)

herbmom 1 year

Well said Salgal12. Not to mention even moms that don't work and end up in surgery and can't nurse for a time. I'm grateful that I was able to put milk away before surgery but finding the right bottle has been hard. The avent and adari even on newborn nipple size chokes my 3 month old. We found the breastflow over the weekend and she does okay on it. Doesn't choke as much. I'm interested in trying the Tommee Tippee one.

Salgal12 1 year

To the poster that mocked the need for a breastfed baby to use a bottle - there are many women who continue to breastfeed after going back to work, so need to pump and store their milk for someone else to feed baby from the bottle.

sppmg 1 year

We hated the adari bottles I wanted to love them but you can't set them down because the air vents are in rh bottom and they leek. The flow was way to fast even with the smallest nipple hole he choked. If you had to put the top on it had to be just right or it leaked all over. These look good but are really bad bottles.

Giovannabo 1 year

Hey, you forgot the best one of all (what it seems to be anyway) BARE AIR-FREE. Run into this website http://bittylab.com I can't wait to try them.

2 years

We actually loved BreastFlow bottles with our first. We had no problems with leaking and it was easy to get the extra milk out of the by pinching it, It was nice to have a bottle that was as close to breast as possible while I had to work.

2 years

We love the Tommee Tippee bottles. When my son took his first bottle of milk after being breastfed for a few weeks, he wouldn't take the Advent bottles we had, so thankfully someone had bought us the Tommee Tippee bottles, which he took very easily.

2 years

breast fed babies tend to drink milk from the breast. it's a shame, really, this leaves no reason to buy things.

2 years

Yes, the Breastflow bottles leak, but they were the ONLY bottles my son would deign to take. I'll take a leaking bottle over not being able to use a bottle at all (and I tried so many). The leaking isn't too bad, if you tighten it really tight.

2 years

I second the previous commenter about the Breastflow bottles, they are TERRIBLE! The milk would always trapped between the nipples and it became really frustrating. We switched to the Tommee Tippee bottles and I love them!

2 years

Great suggestions. Just FYI, looks like the 4th and 5th photo and description are duplicated.

ElleElle 2 years

No No No No NO to the Breastflow bottles - they have a lot of components, which is not ideal but most of all they leak, really really bad - the milk gets stuck in between the nipple and the blue part. Clearly I am not the only one who was not pleased as they were on Super Duper Clearance at Babies R Us soon after and I no longer see them in the store.