Since the appearance of the baby, parents try to surround him with proper care and attention, provide proper care, create ideal conditions for his growth and development. Important is the choice of quality products for a newborn baby. This applies in part to the first dishes for the baby. So, bottles for feeding newborns are used by absolutely all parents, regardless of the method of feeding (HB or IV). If the baby is breastfed, the bottles can come in handy in cases where the mother needs to go away. Then she advance expresses breast milkthen dad or grandmother can feed the baby without any problems. If the child is on artificial feeding, then without a few bottles and can not do. This children's dishes is also necessary for dipping the child with water. In connection with the relevance of using this dishware, young parents have a completely logical question - how to choose the right bottle for a newborn baby and what to look for when choosing.
Criteria for choosing a feeding bottle
When choosing baby bottles, first of all, you need to pay attention to the quality of manufacture of these products. In order to protect the child from low-quality goods, it is recommended to purchase bottles and accessories for them in pharmacies or children's specialty stores. There must be a quality certificate for such a product.
Giving preference to one or another model, you need to consider several points:
- size / volume;
- the form;
- material;
- manufacturer.
The size. In the first months of life, children drink at a time no more than 90 ml of milk and 50 ml of water (link to the article: how much milk / mixture is needed in 1 month) Therefore, for the first time, you can buy small bottles for feeding - from 80 to 150 ml in volume. They are compact and do not cause trouble during operation. Some mummies also believe that it is better to choose wide models rather than narrow ones, since they are convenient to hold when feeding and just rinse and process.
The form. Wondering what shape a baby bottle should be, many parents disagree. Some believe that the so-called “anti-colic”, having a curved shape, is the most optimal. Others believe that you need to purchase bottles of standard cylindrical shape. The main point that young parents should take into account when choosing a form is simplicity and convenience when washing and handling. The main thing is that this dishware can be washed well and quickly.
Material. Of no less importance is the material from which the containers for baby food are made. The most common material for the manufacture of this children's dishes is plastic.
Benefits of Plastic Bottles:
- ease;
- quick processing;
- variety of models.
Disadvantages:
- when boiled, plastic can release substances harmful to the body;
- plastic bottles need to be changed often;
- with prolonged use, microcracks may form in the plastic.
There is a more reliable material for the manufacture of children's dishes - glass. However, glass bottles are not so common on the shelves of children's supermarkets. However, they are quite popular because of their long-term use and the ability to sterilize them for a long time without fear for the health of the baby. Their only minus is that they are quite heavy and can be broken if handled carelessly.
Oriented in the size, shape, material of children's dishes, it is important not to forget about the manufacturer. Parents prefer to buy bottles of trusted and recognized brands.
Video Gallery: how to choose a bottle and pacifier
How to choose a baby bottle for feeding and a pacifier on it, what you need to pay attention to when choosing how to keep the bottle clean and other popular questions are discussed in the video clips below.
Top Baby Bottle Manufacturers
The best baby bottles are supplied by the following manufacturers:
- Philips Avent - Moms give preference to this particular company when choosing children's dishes. The products of this manufacturer are distinguished by a wide neck, compactness, anti-colic valve. The product passes all the necessary testing and certification procedures.
- Dc. Brown - Another favorite brand. The concave shape of the bottles of this company allows to achieve an anti-colic effect. Goods Dc. Brown has a unique ventilation system with a tube that prevents ingestion of excess air during feeding.
- Nuk - Recognized by young mothers as the best manufacturer due to the high quality of workmanship and durability. Almost all models have a bright coloring, attracting the attention of both parents and small nonsense.
- Chicco Nature - a manufacturer who cares about the maximum compliance of the feeding process with breastfeeding. This effect was achieved using a special physiological nipple, which makes feeding a newborn simple and enjoyable.
Photo gallery of bottles of different manufacturers (clickable)
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Video Gallery: bottles of different manufacturers (comparison)
Philips AVENT
Dc. Brown
Chicco nature
Avent or NUK? Who will win?
Nipples for bottles: what to look for
In many ways, how a newborn will drink milk or water from a bottle depends on the correct choice of nipples. Most baby bottles are produced in conjunction with suitable nipples in size and other parameters. Nevertheless, in some cases, children are sensitive to one or another nipple: some babies normally perceive standard silicone nipples, while others accept only soft latex. In this case, the mothers need to observe which nipple is best suited and her baby specifically likes it.
When choosing a pacifier, it is important to choose the size of the hole, on which the flow of milk depends. Specialists in the pharmacy network or children's stores will help you choose the most optimal nipples for bottles, depending on the age and individual preferences of the child.
Additional recommendations
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- When buying feeding bottles, do not forget to get brushes for washing them. Thoroughly rinse baby dishes from the remnants of milk or milk mixture after each feeding the baby.
- When processing, you can use a small amount of dishwashing detergent.
- The most thoroughly necessary to wash inaccessible places - the bottom and neck of the bottle, since it is here that the remains of milk can settle. This is a favorable environment for the development of pathogens and can provoke intestinal disorders.
- The brush for washing baby bottles should be used exclusively for this purpose.
- Before each use, the container for baby food must be boiled for 5-10 minutes or sterilized in a sterilizer (Cm TOP-9 modern bottle sterilizers (rating)).
- Do not forget to timely change baby bottles, nipples, cleaning brushes.
- For children who are breast-feeding, 2-3 small bottles with a volume of up to 80-100 ml will be enough. They will be needed for soldering with water, and later - juice and baby tea.
- For “artificers” you will need a larger number of bottles: 4-5 with a volume of up to 180-250 ml for a milk mixture and 2-3 with a volume of about 80-100 ml for water, juice, and children's tea.
Thus, choosing a bottle for feeding a newborn, it is necessary to approach this issue with all responsibility and seriousness. The right choice of dishes for baby food affects the absence of problems when feeding the baby.
We read on the topic HOW to choose:
A complete list of things for a newborn;
- Choosing a breast pump (learn to express them);
- Choose a pacifier;
- Choosing Diapers;
- Choose a sling;
- We buy the first dishes.
At the expense of the fact that in the first month of life a child drinks up to 90 ml of milk at a time I do not agree. Maybe, of course, all the children are different, but my son at four months barely overcomes about 70 ml of expressed milk, so in our everyday life there are still small plastic bottles up to 120 ml.
For my child, the best bottle was Avent. Nipples are very comfortable: there is a small hole, but there is a wider one (for kefir). But you need to buy a brush right away; otherwise, washing a bottle is problematic.
I want to share the fact that my child generally drank very little from a bottle, from about three months we had already tipped her an ordinary mug quietly, and until three months we still couldn’t please a little girl with a bottle! But actually, she was not really needed and needed, the child was fed exclusively by breast! Then, when we started to feed the food, then we were given some water, juices, etc. from the mug. They were looking for a bottle to take with them on the road. They searched for a long time. We found the one from which our child happily ate and saw became Nuk, a German, plastic, with an inclined shape of the nipple, that is, it turns out anti-colic! It was she who served as an indispensable assistant in feeding during the journey, thanks to the manufacturer!
Irina, so in the article it is written NOT more than 90 grams 🙂 and not in the first month, but in the first months.
Choosing a baby bottle is not as easy as it sounds. Many questions arise, especially among young mothers. I used plastic jars because they are lighter and I chose a cylindrical shape. Such a jar is much more convenient to wash, which is important.
Indeed, the choice of the bottle is very important! But it is possible only by experience, the advice of friends or the Internet to follow is useless. We tried two manufacturers - Avent and Nook. We stopped at Nuk, because the nipple there is softer, latex and closer to my mother’s chest. The kid received her, but refused to drink from Aventa; he did not like either the nipple in the bottle or the bottle itself. But again, I repeat that you need to try everything only empirically. For a friend, on the contrary, the son drank only from an Avent bottle. Another very interesting curved anti-colic bottle - it is a pity that I did not know about its existence before - would definitely be tried, since the baby was very tormented by colic.
It seemed very strange comments about the uselessness of information about bottles from friends and forums, especially under the topic in which these same bottles are discussed. It doesn’t feel logical. For that they exist, in fact. We drink from baby land with pens. not a well-known brand, but there are no complaints about the quality. And it’s convenient to drink and hold ourselves (baby 6 m). The bottle is anti-colic, it is washed perfectly. The nipple is silicone. soft. Of course, HS and female breasts will not replace anything, but at least in part they are good substitutes.