Excellent!

I buy this product for my sister, and I wanted to have these baby bottles whe my infantren were babies... Excellent!

[Friday, December 26, 2008]

The only bottle my son would take, but ...

When it was time for me to go back to work, my then-6-week-old son absolutely REFUSED to drink from the Avent bottles we'd chosen. However, we had a Ventaire bottle on hand -- I think it was a shower gift -- and he took to it immediately.

That was a mixed blessing. The narrow Ventaire bottle (he would never take the wide one), I believe, led to difficulties with breastfeeding, which we'd previously done well with, and eventually he stopped nursing altogether at 2 1/2 months.

I also didn't care for the Ventaire nipples. The first level nipples were so slow that he could barely get any milk at all, while the second level were too fast and led to further nursing issues. (Luckily, just about any standard-size nipples will fit these bottles, so I used the Dr. Brown's ones, with better luck.)

However, we had very very few issues with gas, and we had no leaking issues, either, with these bottles. So once nursing was no longer an issue, I was quite happy with the Ventaire ... until the news hit about BPA in plastic bottles. I pitched them then.

That said, because of the no-gas feature and the lack of leaking, I would use the Ventaires again IF Playtex came out with a BPA-version, and IF my next kiddo would take the wider version. (I guess we'd still have to find the right nipple, though, as I wasn't happy with the Playtex flow rates.)

[Friday, December 12, 2008]

I really need to try the BPA free ones

My daughter- now 2- preferred these bottles over all others we gave her. I've seen some reports of these leaking, but we never had leak problems- and we never did anything special with ours- just tightened them. And they are sturdy- they held up to tons of washing and dropping and you name it. Her gassiness and spit up also went down considerably after we switched her to these. I am having another little girl in about 2 weeks and was hoping to use these bottles for her as well, but with all the BPA concerns...I trashed my old Ventairs. I have not been able to find the BPA free Ventairs in my area, so I'm going to try the Evenflo Comfi BPA free and see how it goes. Now as much as my daughter liked the Ventair - I do have the following complaints...reasons why I'm willing to try the Comfis.

1) the nipple openings need some work. The stage 1 nipples are too slow flow- even for a newborn. We switched my daughter to these bottles from Avents when she was 3 wks old...she was suddenly very cranky and we thought maybe colic was setting in. Turns out she just wasn't getting enough out of her bottles and was crying out of hunger. The stage 2 nipples were too fast flow for this age, so I had to experiment with cutting the nipple openings on the stage 1s to increase the flow just enough. This also makes nipple cleaning more difficult since cutting the nipple hole makes the nipple more prone to tears during cleaning.

2) There are 6 parts to each bottle- that is an awful lot of cleaning and sterilization.

3) For whatever reason, this brand/model does grow mold a little more quickly than other brands and models we tried. It cleans up easily, but it's still pretty gross.

4) The measurement lines wore off pretty quickly.

But, if this new baby doesn't do well with the Comfis (or if I hate them)...I guess I'll track down some of the new BPA free Ventairs.

[Friday, October 24, 2008]

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