Now I must start this by saying I never had a particularly colicky baby to start with but I still think these are brilliant.
After messing my baby about considerably; breast, bottle, orthadentic teats, normal teats, dummies etc I took the plunge and bought these. My baby is very adaptable ... Read review
The Dr. Brown Natural Flow combines a series of unique features to benefit all aspects of ... more
bottle feeding your baby. Very Soft silicone teats. More comfortable for your baby to suckle. The patented air vent eliminates well known causes of colic and also...
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Advantages: No wind, no ear infections, no colic, teats don't collapse, doesn't contain Bisphenol A Disadvantages: Bit of a hassle to clean, the price
Now I must start this by saying I never had a particularly colicky baby to start with but I still think these are brilliant.
After messing my baby about considerably; breast, bottle, orthadentic teats, normal teats, dummies etc I took the plunge and bought these. My baby is very adaptable and never bothers how she is getting her milk or what from as long as she is getting it.
I mix fed her from the beginning and was ... ...she was on bottles full time it was too expensive to continue. So i bought some normal teats but these kept collapsing as she sucks so hard and the amount of bubbles going back into the milk really bothered me. Also because the teats were collapsing I had to keep taking them out of her mouth and upsetting her.
So anyway, getting to the point, I was in Mothercare and I noticed these strange looking devices. They were brown and had a ... more
Now I must start this by saying I never had a particularly colicky baby to start with but I still think these are brilliant.
After messing my baby about considerably; breast, bottle, orthadentic teats, normal teats, dummies etc I took the plunge and bought these. My baby is very adaptable and never bothers how she is getting her milk or what from as long as she is getting it.
I mix fed her from the beginning and was using disposable orthadentic teats. This was very handy but once she was on bottles full time it was too expensive to continue. So i bought some normal teats but these kept collapsing as she sucks so hard and the amount of bubbles going back into the milk really bothered me. Also because the teats were collapsing I had to keep taking them out of her mouth and upsetting her.
So anyway, getting to the point, I was in Mothercare and I noticed these strange looking devices. They were brown and had a tube running down to the bottom. Now I do not understand scientifically how these work, I think it is something to do with a vacuum but I guessed what happened is the air travelled down the milk to the bottom of the bottle away from the milk.
I picked up the box and read the back. The first claim was that they are the ONLY bottle that do this (although later I got home and was reading the boots catalogue and saw a different name of bottles that do the same!) and the box basically told you that these bottles will stop your baby getting colick and middle ear infections. So far so good. It also says it reduces wind by up to 7 times as much as a normal bottle.
They won me over and I reluctantly handed over £22 (yes £22!) for 4 bottles. I don't have a lot of money and this was a LOT for me to spend on just 4 bottles.
The thing I didn't like is the box did not tell you what methods of sterlisation you can use but when I got them home I read the leaflet and you can use any form of sterlisation so I was happy with that although I think it should be stated clearly on the box.
So I opened the instruction leaflet eager to give these a go. Now if you have an instruction leaflet for a power tool or something it will usually consist of a picture with an arrow or something. Not with Dr Brown Baby Bottles! "Please read steps 1-16 before using." Now I was used to cleaning a bottle and putting a disposable teat on so this was a big difference for me!
They are easy to understand though and once you've done the bottles once you will not have any problem doing them again and again - as you will have to!
The bottles consist of: a bottle cap, a teat, the bit the teat goes in, a travel cap, a green vacuumy thing, the tube that goes to the bottom of the bottle and the actual bottle. First job was to wash all these things in warm soapy water and sterlise them.
Washing the bottles does take longer than normal bottles obviously as there are more parts but they are not difficult to do. They come with a tiny brush for cleaning the small tubing parts and I bought some special foam teat and bottle brushes too.
As there are so many parts it can be hard to cram into your steriliser but I normally manage to fit all the parts of the four bottles I have in my 6 bottle microwave steriliser.
This is what I usually do. I clean the cap and the teat with the little teat sponge I have and put these in the sterliser as I go along. I clean the bit the teat goes in and the top of the bottles with a toothbrush. I clean the bottle with the big bottle brush and I clean the vacum part and the long tube with the special little brush that comes with the bottles. I then put them in the microwave for 5 minutes and thats it job done.
I personally then put boiled water (5 ounces as that's what my baby is on) into the bottles and leave the water to cool in them and just add the milk powder when my baby wants feeding. No cooling down and warming up etc. The bottles have a temperature guide on the tube bit which goes pink if the bottles are too hot (anything above room temperature). Unfortunately the temperature guide is not on the outside of the bottle but on the tube right in the middle of the milk which means you have to turn the bottle upside down to see it! But never mind, I don't really use the temperature guide anyway as I have all my water at room temperature anyway.
The main thing I noticed about the Dr Brown bottles is you can see the difference. On normal bottles there would be hundreds of air bubbles travelling back into the milk but there were non when using these bottles. Also the teat never collapsed once even though my baby sucks very hard. She is also tongue tied but had no problem with these bottles.
The first night (this could be a coincidence) that I gave my daughter (around 8 weeks old at the time) her milk out of this she slept for a full 12 hours and she has been doing pretty much that ever since. She never sleeps less than 9 hours now and doesn't wake for a night feed. I don't know if this is because of these but it happened at exactly the same time.
The bottles have clear measurements in mls and ounces on the side and are easy to fill as they are widenecked. The are also shaped so they are easy to hold.
The bottles are a funny colour - a kind of antiquey brown colour which does cause some questions. The babys father asked what was in the milk and my best friend commented that it looks like I am giving her chocolate milk before I explained it is the colour of the bottles!
The reason for them being this colour is that they are a special type of plastic that lasts 50% longer than most bottles and does not contain the hormone changing chemical, Bisphenol A which is found in most plastic bottles. Bisphenol A is potentially harmful to human health and to the environment. As most plastic bottles become scratched from cleaning the Bisphenol A can leach into the babys feed. This does not happen with Dr Brown's special plastic.
My baby now finished her feed sits up, does a burp and that's all. No wind other than that. No crying between feeds. Basically these have changed my life and made it so much easier! They are well worth the money and the extra time spent cleaning them. I will be continuing to use these for the entire time my baby is on bottles and if I ever have anymore children I will probably start them on these from day one!
Advantages: Help Reduce The Chace Of Colic - Don't Leak! Disadvantages: Price - Not Very Easy To Clean
My second born Max suffered with colic from when I took him home from hospital. He would just constantly cry for hours and by the end of the first week I was looking like a walking zombie.
After reading through one of my magazines I saw an advertisement for Dr Brown's Natural flow bottles. After trying almost everything else I decided to nip down to boots to purchase these and give them a go.
* Colic *
It's that dreaded thing that every parent ... ...it generally appears in babies aged between two weeks to two months, but it can also affect babies later on. It doesn't affect girls more than boys and colic can affect perfectly healthy babies.
The symptoms of colic are your baby continuously crying for long periods, espially while taking a feed. Also another symptom is if your baby is lay down that he or she is bringing their legs into their tummy, and are just generally not interested in there ...
BubbleLove 01.11.2005
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Advantages: No air escapes via the teat AT ALL! fantastic Disadvantages: Leakes when liquid is to hot
Last spetember i had my third son, with my first i had used Avent bottles and had no problems what so ever with them so when it came around to my second i used Avent again, only this time my son got collic, not down to the bottles alone of course its one of those things but in the end we had to buy all kinds of different bottles to find a good one that did not let to much air through the teats. After trying Avent, Nuk, Tommie Tippie, and some shop ... ...and ended up sticking with the Nuk as they where one of the better ones from the makes we had bought. After all this trouble a friend later told me...."why did you not try Dr Browns" my reply was they where a little expensive but looking back it would of been cheaper to just but them in the first place!!. So when i became pregnant with my third son i decided straight away Dr Browns would be my bottles of choice. They where a little expensive costing ...
sarah24484 13.02.2009
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Advantages: less wind, helped with colic Disadvantages: leak if not upright, not the cheapest
I have been using these bottles for a few weeks now and felt i had used them long enough to give an honest review.
Firstly a bit of background. With my first baby i was using the Avent bottles and had no problem with them at all they were fantastic so naturally I thought when i had my second i would use them again however second baby decided she was going to be miserable and scream non stop.
So we get into the realms of that wonderful condition ... ...i can tell is the term when they cant find anything wrong with little one and dont just want to tell you you have a stroppy bad tempered baby!
So i tried everything i could think of, things like Infacol and so on none of which seemed to make any difference and i still could not put little one down without her screaming until she made herself go purple. I decided therefore with little else to lose i would try changing her bottles to see if that helped.
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emma29879 23.06.2008
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Advantages: teat more like mum's own, no colic valve system reduces wind and reflux Disadvantages: pricey, remember to always remove the valves before nuking or heating.
I don't know who this Dr. Brown fellow is, but I tell you, I think he is a genius :)
Having breastfed all my others and only using bottles when leaving with grandma etc., this time around I decided to do the same, so I just replaced the nipples on our old bottle assortment (Mothercare bottles that came with the steriliser), and sat back confidently. DOH! Things do not always go according to plan. The trouble all started when I noticed that for some ... ...to be the correct manner (baby number four here!), my nipples were mysteriously getting VERY sore and he was full of wind, drawing his poor knees up and screaming the hospital down. In came the midwife and she looked rather puzzled too, then suddenly she prised his mouth open for a quick peek and discovered he was tongue tied. Very tongue tied. Classic heart shaped tongue and all. This means that he cannot use his tongue properly to suck and swallows ...
Shroud 22.07.2003 (24.07.2003)
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Advantages: Baby feeds more comfortably, bottles good quality Disadvantages: Takes longer to make up bottles, expenisve
Firstly, bottlefeeding is not the natural way a baby feeds so there will be some disadvantages to using a bottle that can not be helped, however these bottles do create more of a breastlike feed which can only be a good thing.
You will see air bubbles develop in normal non-vented bottles. This is caused by vacuum pulling air through the teat into the bottle. These bubbles mix with the liquid which more than quadruples the amount of air that can ... ...feeding, these air bubbles can cause colic symptoms such as wind and posseting. These bottles are put togther to make a feeding system that has a unique air vent which minimizes the air swallowed by your baby. Some babies are affected by wind more than others so I think these bottles can be useful if your baby tends to suffer.
These bottle cost just over £10 for a pack of 2. If feeding a baby from bottles as a newborn you will really need 8 bottles ...
Spanner82 06.08.2005
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