Playtex 3 Pack BPA Free VentAire ADVANCED Wide Bottles, 9 Ounce, Colors Vary
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Baby Products Reviews of Playtex 3 Pack BPA Free VentAire ADVANCED Wide Bottles, 9 Ounce, Colors Vary
Customer Review: Finally, a better nipple shape....
Summary: 4 Stars
I tried these bottles as soon as I saw them in the store, as I was using the playtex disposables with the natural latch nipple and liked the idea of a reusable bottle better, especially with the ventaire "technology". The good points:
- The nipple has never collapsed
- haven't had a problem with leaking
- assembly not too terribly complicated
- baby doesn't appear any fussier after using them than with the disposables.
The bad points:
- can't use in a bottle warmer. placing in a glass of warm water gets some water in the vent area on the bottom of the bottle and then it dribbles back out during the feeding (not the milk, just the water used to warm it)
- not supposed to use in a steam sterilizer
- nipple much firmer than the same shaped platex disposable nipples, makes it a tad more work for the baby to get milk out.
- not sure if it really does what it says it's supposed to, as I still have to tip the bottle all the way over to keep milk in the nipple.
All in all, I still use these bottles but only when my platex disposables aren't clean. It was hard to find a nipple out there that my breastfed baby likes and these haven't caused any problems going back and forth from bottle to breast. These work well for us and they have no major flaws such that I wouldn't recommend them.
Customer Review: I hate these bottles!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I read the reviews before purchasing this product and chose to purchase the VentAire bottles, even though some reviewers claimed that they leaked.
At first, I did not have a problem with them leaking, except for on occasions that I didn't wait for all the pieces to dry. But, I have now been using the bottles for 6 months and they are not holding up. No matter how much care I take in putting them together they leak all over the place. This is not cool when you have a hungry, teething, crying baby! I've begun to target the ones that are going bad and have thrown them away. Well, my bottle supply is depleating. I decided to try a different bottle ... well, my baby won't drink from any other bottle now that all she's ever known is the VentAire natural shape nipple, so I've now 1.) Thrown away VentAire that have went bad $$$. 2.) Bought other brands that my baby refuses to drink out of $$$. 3.) And now ended up buying VentAire again (even though I know that they'll leak) just to get my baby to eat $$$. I've wasted a ton of money. I should have listened to the bad reviews.
My advise is to not buy these bottles!!! Besides the fact that they leak, it also becomes tiresome washing them and putting them together ... each bottle consists of 6 seperate pieces!!!
Customer Review: Easy to clean?
Summary: 1 Stars
I was surprised that so many people said that this bottle is easy to clean. I guess it depends on how you look at it. Since you can take the bottom off, you can get at every nook and cranny from both sides, so you can clean it very throughly. However, there are a lot of little parts to clean, and a relatively large number of nooks and crannys.
We adopted our son from Korea, and he came with two bottles. They are much better designed than this one. There are no sharp corners for food to get trapped in, and the screw threads don't indent on the inside of the bottle to keep food out of there. The VentAire is much harder to clean by comparison, even if you can take the bottom off.
It takes a fair amount of suction to draw air through the valves insert. As a consequence, I don't think the feature is particularly useful. A lot of the air ends up getting into the bottle through the nipple just as it would in a basic bottle design. My son doesn't spit up any less with these bottles than he does with other ones.
THese bottles will also leak if you don't screw the bottoms on correctly. It's not that hard to do, but it does happen occasionally.
If I had it to do over again, I'd start with a simpler bottle.
Customer Review: There is a secret to these bottles working correctly
Summary: 4 Stars
I have used all of the Playtex bottles, and these are the best. But I was very frustrated with these bottles at first, because they weren't seeming to work correctly. It seemed that my baby was having to fight to get any of his formula out,and it was extremely frustrating to him. So, I called the Playtex hotline and learned I was doing two things wrong. 1. You can ONLY use the Ventaire nipples with these bottles. The nurser system nipples are the exact same size and shape, but DO NOT work with these bottles. I don't know why they don't make them a slightly different size so they don't fit. I figured that I could use them since they looked the same, but apparently they work in different ways. 2. Each time after boiling or even washing the rubber disk in the bottom, you MUST stretch it in all different directions before putting it back together. This is because sometimes the vents will reseal, and not allow any air. The stretching opens them back up.
Once I started doing these two things, I found that these are the absolute best and easiest bottles to use. I found that my son(who has reflux) does so much better with these bottles than the nurser system bottles. Hope this helps!!
Customer Review: Not good for new or tired parents
Summary: 2 Stars
HUGE CON - SOOO many pieces (6) to wash per bottle!
HUGE CON #2 - Once they are washed they have to be COMPLETELY dry to assemble unless leaks don't bother you. Putting them together at 2 and then again at 4 in the morning is HORRIBLE!
HUGE CON #3 - Your baby will throw up unless you burp every tiny air pocket out. They don't take the air out any more then any other hard plastic bottle (that was the whole point wasn't it?)
HUGE CON #4 - These are about as expensive as bottles get
After a month of problems with these bottles we bought the playtex bag bottles and have NEVER looked back. My son would throw up all over with the Ventaire. I thought that was normal for babies. Once we switched to the bag bottles by playtex things changed dramatically. No throwing up! No leaks! No sleepy eyed assembly at 2am because the disks still weren't dry when I went to bed. I highly highly HIGHLY recommend the bag type over ANY other. If you are worried about the cost of the bags use the store brands. I've only used the playtex bags once before I saw you could use others. two boxes have lasted me 4 months. I will never use another type of bottle.