Im Planning On Breastfeeding …what Are The Best Bottles To Go With So That My Husband Can Feed The Baby Too.
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 at
5:22 am
i am a first time mom and need advice on this…I am only going to use breast milk …so….help….thanks..website were i can find the best bottles and if you know of any sites for free baby stuff…thanks..
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Go with a glass bottle less chemicals that way…. You can get them at babies r us on line or in the store. Dr. Browns are the best because they do not allow any air into the baby’s tummy. It is a patented system and there is nothing else like it on the market… The only other bottle I would suggest is Playtex and push all the air out before feeding baby…. Also don’t bottle feed even breast milk until breastfeeding has been well established at the very least 4 weeks other wise baby can get nipple confusion and breastfeeding may become difficult….
walmart has some good ones.. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.g…
this is the web site that has the list of some bottles and some pumps if u dont have a pump.. but u can still by them by them selves if you already have a pump..
my friend swears by the playtex nursers with the drop in liners, I know they tell you not to give bottles for the first month. But as soon as you get the baby to take a bottle from your husband let me tell you keep it up. My daughter took a bottle from my husband until she was 2 month then after my surgery I was home with her and then we moved and it was just easier to nurse her than pump now at 5 1/2 months she wont take a bottle and I am having a hard time and I have to go back to work. So what ever you choose to do introduce it and keep it going even if it is once a day….
Avent they are great my son love that brand of bottles when I was breastfeeding and it more like your breast so the baby won’t get confused back and forth.
I, personally, would not. Pumping is no fun, and if you think having Daddy give a bottle looks like a break and some more sleep — eh. Once you get things down you pretty much roll over, latch baby, nod back off. But, especially in the early days, you’d have to get up and pump while Daddy was offering the bottle or else risk interfering with your supply, and/or ending up most unpleasantly engorged…
From Canadian breastfeeding guru Dr Jack Newman (whose breastfeeding book I cannot recommend highly enough) –
“Many women are under the impression that it is necessary to own or use a pump to breastfeed. This is not so. There are very few circumstances under which it is necessary to express your milk. But women are being encouraged to pump their milk and give it to baby via bottle for the most unnecessary reasons: Weddings, doctor’s appointments, shopping…why not take the baby with you? How can babies not be welcome at weddings? Or, “so the father can feed the baby”! Partners were not meant to feed babies milk, and giving a bottle is not really helping. But they certainly can help feed the baby by helping mother with compressions, for example, (see Handout: #15 Breast Compressions) and they can help mothers in so many other ways as well. The pump should not replace the baby; you and your baby receive numerous benefits in addition to nutrition by breastfeeding. No pump is as efficient as the natural pump that was made for your body, your baby! A baby who breastfeeds well is the best pump, but, granted some babies don’t breastfeed well. You do not need a breast pump to breastfeed; uninformed use of a breast pump can lead to premature weaning.
There is more to breastfeeding than just the breastmilk.”http://www.drjacknewman.com/index.php?op…
My first son wouldn never take a bottle and we had to go straight to a cup at 4 months. My second son had a lot of comfort with the playtex drop in brand and I breast fed him until 8 months and then he went to those, with my 3rd and now 4 month old baby, I tried every single bottle out there. No exageration. We ended up on the Dr. Brown’s bottles because he also has reflux and these really help with all of that. Personally, I would go with the drop ins, but if you find that you can’t breastfeed (I couldn’t with this little guy) or that your baby has colic, reflux, a spitter-upper, go with the Dr. Brown’s.
It really depends on your baby. Breastfed babies tend to be more finicky about bottles than Formula fed babies are. My advice? Buy one of a few brands. Try them out- have your husband give 1 each a day AFTER THE 4TH WEEK. Why??? You don’t want baby to develop a nipple preference. THEN try the bottles.
It took some time but our baby finally decided that the Dr. Brown’s bottles were best for her! Of course, they were the most expensive brand on the market- the stinker!!!
Good luck to you!
Edit: I know and I am sure you have read about the Bisphenol-A- but we didn’t heat the bottles, only the milk in bags and then transfered to bottles, so I think it was fine.
I highly recommend you visit http://www.kellymom.com for excellent breastfeeding information. There is really great info on pumping and all issues related to nursing.
I agree with a previous poster that pumping just so daddy can give milk sounds better than it is – pumping takes time to get used to and isn’t as efficient as a nursing baby. You need to nurse on demand for at least 4-6 weeks to make sure you keep up your supply. It’s easier at first to rest while baby nurses – I highly recommend you have hubby help you get comfortable with nursing on the side-laying position, as it’s a life-saver!
There are so many ways daddy can bond with baby besides feeding – burping baby between sides and after nursing, wearing baby in a sling or wrap (see http://www.wearyourbaby.com and http://www.thebabywearer.com), changing diapers, and taking baby when she/he isn’t nursing so you can rest.
If you do introduce bottles, make sure you wait until at least 4-6 weeks. Have daddy offer them (not you), as you want baby to know you only feed from the tap, so to speak, and some babies won’t take a bottle from mom. I liked Avent bottles because daddy can make sure baby latches on to the lower, fatter part of the nipple which is more like how baby latches on to mom. Just make sure daddy really works with baby to keep latching correctly – flared lips, tongue over lower gums – just like nursing.
Good luck and congrats!
The bottles that have the nipples shaped like the breast are the best, those nipples are designed to make the baby still use their jaw muscles and sucking action to get the milk, where as the regular nipples are easier and they do not have to use the jaw action. Which causes the baby to get “lazy” and ends up prefering the bottle. I would recomend just looking at like walmart or target or something to find bottles you like with the larger breast like nipples. My daughter was really picky and I used a NUK brand bottle with the larger nipples.
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Avent worked for us.
Wait a bit to introduce bottles until breastfeeding is established!
The Avent was good while I was breastfeeding b/c the bottles hooked right to the bottom of the pump but after I stopped breastfeeding, a month or so the bottles started to leak from under the ring. Avent bottles will also crack if you drop them when they are full of milk. I think advent bottles are overrated and too expensive to only get a few months use out of them. I tried many bottles after the Avent started to leak, the best I hve found are simply called “Baby”. I got them from Babies R us and they are 6 bottles for $4.99
***edit*** I got the Avent pump and bottles so mu husband could be involved in the feedings and guess what, If my daughter woke up I automatically woke up also. My husband probably fed her a total of 10 times.