Dr. Brown'sNatural Flow Anti-Colic Options+ Narrow Baby Bottle, Dream Adventure, 8 oz/250 mL, with Level 1 Slow Flow Nipple, 0m+, 4 Count (Pack of 1)

These bottles are the only ones that my daughter can successfully drink with. My newborn has Down Syndrome and a heart defect, and has a hard time controlling her suction due to low muscle tone. She needed a slow flow but not too slow where her heart had to work to hard to eat. After being in the NICU for over a month, she was ready to go home and needed bottles other than the hospital disposable ones. We tried Avent Natural (my oldest’s favorite) as well as Avent Original and neither of those were sufficient. The Avent Natural were too slow where she had to work too hard for not enough milk. The Avent Original were a little too fast. Her Occupational Therapist recommended these ones, and they are the best option for her. I’m grateful for these, because otherwise she would need her milk in a feeding tube. Each baby is different, but these work for her.If I had one recommendation for the company, it would be to mark the measurements at the bottom. In our case, she has a strict amount she needs each feeding, and what’s left is given via feeding tube. It’s hard to gauge how much to program the feeding tube for under the last mark because there’s a good amount of it that’s not counted.

These bottles have been a lifesaver! My baby took to them right away with no issues, and they help reduce gas and colic thanks to their anti-colic design. They’re easy to clean, don’t leak, and the material feels very durable. I also love that the measurements are clear and don’t fade after washing. Whether I’m using them for formula or pumped milk, they work perfectly. Highly recommended for new parents!

Dr Brown’s bottles, in general, are great!! Each one, however, is slightly different and overall I prefer the Options, even though my baby is not old enough to use valve-less. I have the original (terrible at spills, because the white cap in the shape of a top hat, sort of, doesn’t stop any liquid at all; they have clear bottles, blue tubies, and whitish valves). I have 4oz blue Options (great, easy parts, thumb print on the lid is awesome for popping that sucker off, and the lid also has these bumps that line up with the nipple, where it slows down the leaking of liquids, and keeps the leak in the cap, although given the ease of taking the cap off, it can still get really messy). (Sorry for the run on sentences, I’m a sleep deprived mama!!) I have the 4oz pink Options (similar to the blue, but actually the valve fits very snuggly along with the tubey part into the bottle, so that can be handy when trying to put the bottle together or add formula, while also holding a baby - more stable than any of the other bottles, where the tubey/valve pieces are just loose kind of sitting on top of the bottle; similar cap as the blue, but no thumb print, and harder to get the cap off, especially one handed). Lastly, I have the 8oz Options with plain bottles and with the Dream/Adventure and Animal characters, all with the green valves and tubies, and the similar cap to the blue, except they are clear, thumbprint included! These have been great, and the animal characters are super cute; the ‘dream big’ and ‘adventure awaits’ are cute-meh. The only thing I was disappointed in that set, is that half the bottles had characters, and half were plain. I may be off on the count, because I bought two sets, but I remember being bummed that I paid a premium for cuteness, and didn’t get a full set of cuteness! I do not own, but have used some purple wide bottles that I was loaned while traveling. That was great, so I wouldn’t have to carry a bunch of bottles, but I wouldn’t/didn’t buy them; they’re just too wide for my taste, harder to handle, especially one handed, and I didn’t feel the wide nipple was significantly better for my baby girl. I will address two of the main two complaints I’ve seen about Dr. Brown’s: leaking and too many parts to clean! Leaking, yes, totally a thing, but it does in fact say on the bottle to only fill to X line to avoid leaking! Having said that, it is very hard for my brain to perfectly calculate how much water I need for the formula, where I don’t end up exceeding the volume specified on ghe bottle! I personally don’t think it’s a huge issue. I know it’s going to or probably will, leak, given the liquid in the bottle, and what I do is to keep a cloth or bib under the bottle when she first starts drinking, and after the liquid is down a bit, I just open the bottle up and pull the valve/tubey piece up a bit, and several big drops come flying down the side of the bottle, which I just wipe off with the same bib/cloth. I can immediately get the bottle put back together before my daughter complains too terribly much. Remember, this is only an issue when you’re filling the entire bottle, either 4oz or 8, so at that point the baby is a bit older and can hopefully handle the briefest of pauses without too much of an issue. If my daughter were the type to go full on nuclear melt down, I think I would probably have to be more diligent about staying under the line, and offering more milk, once the bottle’s finished, and a fuller belly is less likely to melt down. Ok, regarding too many parts to clean... there’s what? Two extra parts that other bottles don’t have? Meh. But I will totally recommend getting the Dr Brown’s dishwasher baskets!!! Oh. Dude. Awesome sauce, life-saving, yes. I am very green, sustainable oreinted, so I cringe at how much water I’m consuming running the dishwasher sometimes every day. So not cool. And, I’m also a sole parent, so I gots a lot to take care of, dishwashy basket is a must!! I have 4. : 0 ) I’m not a super fan of washing the nipples in the dishwasher, so I still do those by hand, no biggy. There’s even special baskets for just nipples; someone gave them to me, but no, I no likey since it looks like there’s still a film on the inside.My experience with Dr Brown’s bottles in general, has been awesome! I don’t even remember when I sorta stopped burping my baby (she’s six months now), it just happened organically over time, but when I was burping her (maybe for three months?), she would only have one, maybe two burps. She burps on her own now, but then maybe that’s just her, the point is that there was very little gas! She had a wee bit of reflux as a newborn, but that’s normal I think, what with having an immature gut as a tadpole-baby. I gave her probiotics and kept her upright-ish, and I think the bottles helped. Ultimately, I totally recommend them!! They were recommended to me by my sister, 8 years ago, as my nephew’s salvation, hope they work for you!

We used these bottles in the hospital and ended up buying more for home because we loved them so much. Great for when baby is taking small volumes as it’s easier to see how much they have had than wider-mouthed bottles. Only downside is the 5 different parts to clean, but our baby has had minimal gas issues so I find the anti-colic system to be worth the extra washing hassle!

Great bottles! They help my son with gas and I love all the nipple size choices

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Works for colic, but a lot of parts needa to be cleaned it.

Good 8 onzes size bottle quality that will last forever, they are plastic and do not get to hot. easy to cleaning, just we don’t like the design and change for other one from the same brand that my daughter loves.