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Rating:  - Why my Avent bottles don't leak anymore
This feeding system was recommended by my lactation consultant as having the best nipples to promote establishing breastfeeding. More expensive than most other bottles, but I invested, and proceeded to soak my daughter's chest almost every time I used them. Fluid leaked like crazy from between the bottle and the nipple assembly, and my husband threatened more than once to heave the lot of them with even greater force than he used to torque the bottles together (which did nothing to stem the leaking anyway).But there's the simple solution, right on the leaflet in the package, where it was surely ignored by all of us who thought for crying out loud we knew how to put a baby bottle together: Put all THREE parts of the top together before screwing them onto the bottle. Assemble the nipple and the white ring, then set them down on the counter and push the dome straight on BEFORE you put the whole thing on the bottle. Don't ask me why this works, but it does. This trick isn't 100 percent foolproof -- I still put them in the diaper bag inside quart-size zip-locks, which fit them perfectly -- but it seems to minimize the problem.
Rating:  - These are the best bottles available!
I wouldn't use any other kind of bottle for several reasons:
1- they work great with the avent breast pump.
2- They have wide mouth openings and this makes it easier to clean the bottle as well as dump formula or breast milk into the opening.
3- The nipples are silicon and this is very important to me since I understand from my research silicon nipples are less apt to cause breastfeeding nipple confusion.
4- The nipples seem to mimic a breast more than any other nipple on a bottle I have seen. I was concerned about nipple confusion for the few times I wanted to bottle feed instead of breast feed and I understand that these are some of the best available that mimic a mother's breast.
5- We have noticed that our children have less gas when they use these bottles rather than a normal, cheap type bottle. (maybe it's our imagination, but we think that this is the case.)
6- the whole avent system makes for easy growing with the child- there are different nipples for different ages, including a sippy cup nipple. Great. These bottles are great. My husband sometimes screws a lid on wrong and gets shaking it and formula leaks out the sides. This is only when he doesn't screw the lid on correctly. I have never had this problem. We wouldn't use any other type of bottle. They are well worth the money.
Rating: - Happy with the switch for our 2nd baby!
I love the Avent bottles!This is my second child, so I have tried multiple products on the market. What benefits are heads above the other bottles in my experience include... -- my little guy can manage the wider nipple much more easily with much less air intake than the traditional narrow nipple (we actually use a combination of breast feeding and the Avent bottles without any signs of him being confused or wanting to give up the breast) -- the nipples are durable compared to the Evenflo nipples I used with my first child, so I have not been faced with the problem of constant replacement -- the wider, shorter bottle design keeps the bottle itself from tipping over whether you are using the 4 or 9 ounce size -- the wider bottle design is easier for my little guy to grab onto. This is a good step toward self-help skills. I have even started using the sippy cup handles with some bottle feedings to help us move forward into that new world more smoothly. To address the leaking complaint from some reviewers...
No matter what bottle you choose, you will have leaking if you do not put it together in a way that works with that system. I was rarely having a leaking problem and found a tip from another reviewer that solved the mystery of the occasional leaker... wet the base of the nipple before assembling the bottle. As a busy mom, I found myself only occasionally putting together bottles after all parts were dry - on those occasions we had leaking. However, the leaking was pretty minor and easily corrected by unscrewing, wiping the bottle and inner part of the ring, and rescrewing. After reading this tip about wetting the nipple base with water before assembly, we have been leak free! Now we're looking forward to graduating up to the Avent sippy cups in a couple of months. Good luck to you in whatever system you find works for your child's healthy eating.
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