Avent Airflex Feeding Bottle

The Avent Airflex bottles come in two sizes 4oz and 9oz. When I started to bottle feed my daughter I bought the 4oz bottles which just over a month later I regretted as my little girl was wanting more than 4oz a feed which meant that I had to buy 9oz bottles instead. CLEANING The bottles come apart into 4 pieces, the bottle itself, the teet. the screw ring and the lid. The bottle is very easy to clean when using a bottle brush, if you dont have one then you will find it very hard to get your hand to the bottom of the bottle to wash it out properly. As for the teet, you need to make sure that ... more

It's a very long story, and not a pleasant one, but although I breastfed solely for 3 weeks we needed a little extra milk to sustain our daughters appetite. Unfortunately, our daughter refused bottles and it took us around 3 months of heartache before we discovered these bottles. The teats on these bottles seemed to be the best liked by our daughter and I feel it's because they weren't 'trying' to mimic a real breast unlike other branded bottles (no matter how life-like they may be they just aren't the same). The teats come in a variety of flows and it can be trial and error to find the ... more

Advantages: Helping to reduce colic. Disadvantages: Watch out when screwing on the cap. I can highly recommend these Avent bottles. I do believe that with all of Avent's collic reducing methods that they do help to reduce the amount of a baby's wind. Something to look out for is, inside the white bottle rim is a screw cap system with gaps so that the air bubbles have a chance to escape. Unfortunately because of the gaps in the screw cap, it is possible to screw the lid bottle rim (with teat attached) incorrectly and then when you go to shake and mix the powder and water you can become covered ... more