[blparent] bottles, bags and nipples

[Brandy W]

If she isn't going to nurse than it really doesn't matter. I wouldn't
recommend the flat ones because when you have a crying baby in your arms and
you are trying to put a bottle in its mouth and the bottle has to go a
certain way it is a pain. It really depends on the baby, but the ones that
come with the pumps are fine. The equivalent of those are Gerber, Even flow,
and the pumps also sell packs if you want those exact. The platex ones are
nice except the cost of the bags, and when the baby gets old enough to mess
with the bag. There was a study at one time, but I don't have the link
saying that the bags actually didn't give the baby any less air. The best
way to prevent the baby from getting air is to have the bottle tipped so
that the nipple is already full of milk so the baby doesn't start by sucking
out air.

Bran



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-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jan Wright
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:07 AM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blparent] bottles, bags and nipples


A friend of mine is going to have a baby and she has already decided that
she will be pumping exclusively  (For the six weeks)  and then  maybe even
supplementing with formula, but she does not want to actually breastfeed
from the breast.... ... it is complicated and she is a bit strange. But,
anyway, . 
She asked me about bottles.
I usually  get the playtex bottles with the bags b/c I thought that the baby
would  get less air from  them.
but, all of the breastpumps come with plastic bottles --- all, except the
playtex pump and I did not find that one very effective.
Is there something good that I don't know about the plastic bottles????
And, I get the playtex slow flow (most like breast nipples) nipples. [at
least that is what the package says].  
Has there been any reviews/studies on nipples and which ones work best. One
of my friends got the nipples that are round nubs and flat on top. the
nipples that I buy are kind of rounded, like the nipple shields. 
the little formula packets that the hospital gives you have these round
nipples, but they are small and my lactation consultant said that they were
also not good to help baby's suck.... Any suggestions. she asked me which
bottles and nipples were best and while I had my own opinion, I just wanted
to see if the facts matched my opinion.
Thanks.
  
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