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Filed Under Stuff | July 26, 2010
There is no way around it. At some point during your baby’s life, you will give them a bottle. It may be on the day they’re born, or when you’re heading back to work or when you’re weaning them, but it will happen. And when it does you’ll be faced with choosing from all the different kinds, sizes and materials of bottles out there.
Tommee Tippee is a well known UK brand that’s just become available in Canada. Their Closer to Nature line is all about newborn feeding with bottles, sterilizers and more. Their bottles are designed to mimic natural breast feeding with super-wide nipples that flex and stretch like the breast and an anti-colic valve that minimizes the air your baby ingests. They are plastic, but BPA-free and phthalate-compliant. Each bottle set comes with milk powder dispensers and a nipple and bottle cleaning set.
We tried them out on a hungry little tester who had previously tried, and rejected several different brands (he’s a bit of a boob snob, we will admit), but he was quite taken with Tommee Tippee. He loved being able to grab the bottle himself, their size and shape (we tried the 260 ml size) are such that they are easy for little hands to grab and hold on to. The width of the bottle also allows for faster milk flow (and less air flow) which is great if you have a baby that tends be a bit gassy. Tommee Tippee also has a sensitive tummy bottle which is a great option for colicky little one.
Our tester is strictly a milk man, so we used the powder dispensers to store and freeze baby food for his lunch bag to great success. And we really can’t say enough about the bottle cleaning set – we like them so much, we would use them to clean everything in our house if we weren’t worried about keeping the cleaner somewhat sterile.
Outside of the bottles, we gave their website a thorough going over, and we love the fact that it is filled with great information for families on bottle feeding and breastfeeding.
We’re pretty sure the enormous burp our tester gave these bottles constituted two thumbs up. Pretty high praise in our books.
Tommee Tippee: www.tommeetippee.ca
Looking for other milk drinking options? We also like:
- organicKidz stainless steel baby bottles
- Adiri Natural Nursers, Wee.Go Glass Bottles with Silicone Sleeves, Born Free and more
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There is a way around bottles, actually, if you breastfeed. Start them practising with sippy cups as early as 6mos. My son never used a bottle…straight from breast to cup. The only problem with this is that no one else can help you with feedings until babe has mastered the sippy cup.
Your opening paragraph sounds really ignorant to me.
I had to give my baby a bottle for a month or so, due to low milk supply. But never after did he get a bottle. He transitioned to a sippy cup and to normal cups, no bottles needed. ( And I went back to work when he was 7 months old.) So if supply/supplementing wasn’t an issue, he wouldn’t have had a bottle at all. And now I know that, even if you need to supplement, there are far better options than a bottle.
So: there are ways around giving baby a bottle if you want. I have no problem with giving a bottle, but not with the way you put it. It’s a choice, it doesn’t have to happen.
My daughter is going to be 2 in December, and still being nursed. She is alergic to milk so the only thing she should ‘transition’ to would be soy (as per pediatricians suggestions). But I read mixed information about soy in Canada and especially when it comes to babies. I’m reluctant to stop nursing but I realize it has to happen soon, by 2 at the latest. Any suggestions?!