The First Years 3 Pack Breastflow Bottle, 5 Ounce
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Baby Products Reviews of The First Years 3 Pack Breastflow Bottle, 5 Ounce
Customer Review: AMAZING!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Over the past couple weeks, my milk supply has been really suffering from me being newly pregnant (surprise baby!). I nurse on demand (I still nurse 7-9 times a day, followed with solids), but it's not giving baby enough milk. She cries while nursing, she's not having nearly as many wet diapers, and I can tell I'm not making enough milk right now - she's not swallowing as much...if at all! I've tried Avent bottles. While they are great, they don't work for her because she wants to suck like she does when nursing. I've tried over the past couple weeks with no success. She will chew on it and spit it out, finally getting angry at the bottle. I've also tried sippy cups, no success.
We finally found these bottles. Within ten seconds, she was drinking from it. I cannot tell you what a relief it's been! She can use the suck she knows how to use and can drink from the bottle with no problem. Whoever invented these is amazing and should win a prize! If you need your breastfed baby on a bottle and are having troubles with your baby taking one, these are perfect. I have no idea how well it works for newborns/nipple confusion, but my daughter is now 8.5 months old and took to it in just seconds. The flow is just fine for her too. I love that she can drink from these with the same suck as breastfeeding.
LEAKING:
I have not had any leaking at all. I'm not sure if it's because I put the nipples on and screwed it on carefully (due to reading these reviews), or because I haven't had it long enough, and it'll leak later once it's been washed over a few months. Either way, it's not leaking now. Truth is, I'm so grateful to this bottle that I don't care if it were to start leaking!
MILK BUILDING UP BETWEEN NIPPLES:
This is supposed to happen. It's not a big deal. You can push on the very base of the nipples, and it'll drop the milk back into the bottle. It doesn't get ALL the milk, but it's hardly anything left in there. I don't worry about dropping the milk back down until baby has drank the rest of the milk. It doesn't bother me at all because it seems like it has to be this way in order to have the nipples create a breastfeeding type of suck.
NIPPLE COLLAPSES:
I think this is expected to happen too. Doesn't cause much issue for us. When it collapses too much, baby pops off, it refills in like 2 seconds, then she starts drinking again. It works fine for us. It would be nice if it didn't do that, but it is such a great bottle that I don't care! :-)
These bottles are truly AMAZING! I would give them a ten star if I could. I am so relieved that she is finally drinking a good amount of liquids now. I LOVE THESE BOTTLES!! If you are having issues getting baby to take a bottle, this could very likely be your answer.
Customer Review: A mixed bag.
Summary: 3 Stars
My baby had to supplement almost from the start due to breastfeeding supply problems. We started using a bottle at about 3 wks of age. I bought about 10 different types of bottles trying to find one that he could successfully draw milk from. Most, including this one, were too hard for him to get anything out of. I finally had some success with the cheapy-cheap-cheap Gerber bottle and nipple I found at the supermarket.
Now that he's older, approaching 10 wks of age, the Gerber bottle and nipple is much too easy for him and he glugs and crushes the nipple with the strength of his suck. The same is true for his Green to Grow, Medela, and Evenflo Purely Comfi nipples. So my quest now is to find bottles that have firm enough nipples that he doesn't squish them with his suck and also to find bottles/nipples with appropriate flow rates.
I have revisited some of the bottles that were inappropriate when he was 3 wks old. This bottle has turned out to be the winner of the group.
Pros:
- Good flow speed, not too fast, not too slow.
- Broad nipple base is hard for the boy to flatten with his strong suck
- Broad nipple base helps the boy retain some of his breastfeeding chops, as we continue to try and nurse the few times a day my supply will allow for.
Cons:
- Frequent leaks. This bottle's nipple-within-a-nipple design means the chamber between the outer and inner nipple fills with milk, which is fine. But when you set the bottle down, that milk drains back downward, ideally back into the bottle. Often (but not always), unfortunately, on its way back down into the bottle, the formula leaks out thru the threads where you screw the nipple collar onto the bottle. If that makes any sense. This is true even if you carefully align the two nipples properly.
My main comment about this bottle is that it's a good aid in maintaining breastfeeding skills but if you find your baby doesn't like it at first, hang onto it. He/she may grow into it like my baby has. As with so many things, what's in favor one week is never the same the following week.
Customer Review: Marketing Hype
Summary: 1 Stars
Go ahead... believe the hype. This is a slightly improved version of the 1938 rubber nipple, but nothing more. After several attempts to help my wife breastfeed by giving our daughter my wife's breast milk through this bottle, it was a complete failure. Why? Because BOTTLES CANNOT BEGIN TO REPLICATE NATURE.
My daughter knew from the start that the silicone nipple is a completely different density, consistency, taste, and surface texture than flesh and the "patented breastflow nipple" technology did nothing but leak milk all along the fitting, dribble milk scattershot into my daughter's mouth while she shrieked, gagged, gasped, and cried in extreme agitation at even the most shallow (or deep) placement of the nipple within her mouth.
I've read 3 different books on nursing, including the one branded by the American Academy of Pediatrics, so I'm not ignorant on the topic. I've read the techniques to convince your baby to take a bottle and they're all inferior to real breastfeeding in every way -- this bottle and nipple are no exception: a cheap, insulting substitute to your baby's health and intelligence.
If this is the best nipple around, as several reviewers on Amazon have claimed, the bottle industry is in need of some serious help.
Shame on anyone who claims this replaces or even begins to rival the real thing. If you think this bottle is a good idea to exclusively feed your child through, you're lying to yourself. Leave such fibs to the marketers at "The First Years" who make junk like this.
Customer Review: Bottle leaks and pathetic customer service
Summary: 1 Stars
I brought 12 of these bottles since my baby had problem latching on. within2/3 weeks 8 out of these 12 bottles started to leak, I use First years bottle sterilization system so I can't be doing anything wrong. I called up the customer service and the response was to send them all those bottles first and only then will they mail me the new bottles, I told them the problem may be with the bottle collars after half an hour of convincing they agreed to send me the collars ( which they initially wanted me to mail them the bad ones first and only then will they mail me the new ones, the process is suppose to take anywhere between 3 weeks). Its been over a month now and I still haven't received the collars.
I don't know what they expected, If I would have mailed them 8 bottles I would have been left with only four, which meant I would have to wash the bottles three to four times a day. Ultimately I switched to Dr. Brown and they are the best bottles so far, no leakage and reduces colic, gas and burps.
First years definitely need to work on their customer service, if they charge a premium price for their product then why not have a equally good customer service. I will never recommend this product to anybody.
I never write reviews for any products that I buy, but this time I was compelled to write one so that other new moms can make an informed decision and won't have to go through the same frustration I went through.
Customer Review: Does not hinder nursing as much as others...
Summary: 3 Stars
We got this bottle for my newborn since we needed to supplement until my milk supply was established. He took to it just fine...he does seem to prefer it to the breast in fact, much to my dismay. However, he is now one month old and will switch between breast and bottle without issue. He is just impatient at the breast so if he gets too hungry he wants to go straight to the bottle.
Pros:
- Seems to mimic flow of breast feeding pretty well. Still faster than the rate of nursing, but not nearly as fast as most other bottles. It takes my one month old about 10-15 minutes to consume 3 ounces.
- Easy to clean. But DO NOT microwave in a steam sterilizer made for the microwave. The blue nipple can warp and then will not fit correctly into the outer nipple.
- Baby has to "work" to eat. The bottle requires compression and suction so the milk does not just leak into their mouth like most bottles. Still...not nearly as much "work" as breastfeeding in my opinion.
- Available at Target.
Cons:
- Can be leaky. Must get the two nipples snapped together just right to prevent leaks.
- Hard for the baby to get a good seal on the nipple. If the baby pulls too hard the shape of the nipple collapses and creates air pockets all around. I really think he gets a fair amount of gas from using this bottle. Dr Brown's bottles seem to work much better in that regard.