Bottles: plastic v. glass?

mjellison81

We're still a pretty long way off from bottle feeding (if all goes well with breastfeeding in the beginning, fingers crossed!), but I'd love to hear some thoughts on preferences of glass or plastic bottles. We took a Breastfeeding Essentials course on Monday night, which was awesome but we didn't really get into bottle materials. Is it more of a personal preference for you all? Any reasons you chose one over the other? 

MainelyFoolish

I used the Playtex drop-ins bottles because I bottle fed and I didn't want to have to wash bottles all day.  I also had a stash of extra nipples so I didn't have to wash those constantly, either. 

shuga_23

We tried a few different kinds of plastic and ended up with (no so green) drop ins because it made him least gassy.

rbagsgirl

We used the Dr. Browns and while a royal pain in the arse with all the parts you had to wash Josh took to them right away and we never had an issue!

oct13becca

Gaby was really picky about her bottle, ended up taking this one http://www.mimijumi.com/ once we started daycare, but it was kind of stressful for a couple weeks, so my only advice would be, not to really worry too much or decide on anything until after you see what sprinkles likes.  We ended up buying one each of different kinds to try and it would have been a waste for us to stock up ahead.

Tamzin418

We use the Breastflow bottles. They were the first ones we tried and V liked them so that made it easy. We also really like the Mam bottles. Mam is the only brand of pacifier that V will use so it's nice to have bottles with the same nipples.  Mam has a self-sterilizing bottle that's pretty cool. Yeah, I'm a bit of a sucker for the cool baby stuff.

MainelyFoolish

shuga_23:

We tried a few different kinds of plastic and ended up with (no so green) drop ins because it made him least gassy.

Does your town take plastics for recycling?  The drop-ins liners are numbered, so we could put them out with our recycling. 

shuga_23

MainelyFoolish:

shuga_23:

We tried a few different kinds of plastic and ended up with (no so green) drop ins because it made him least gassy.

Does your town take plastics for recycling?  The drop-ins liners are numbered, so we could put them out with our recycling. 

He only gets bottles at daycare and they don't recycle.

mrscjwatts

we tried the drop ins but T didn't take to the nipple well. that and the fact that chris pointed out...it's cheaper to buy more bottles than to keep buying the dropin liners (not knocking any of you that did/do though).

we used the playtex ventaire and she took to them right away.  regardless of what you buy, I would suggest buying the largest size.  I used the 4oz size in the begining and then switched to the 9oz size....which was completely pointless because whatever fits in the 4oz can obviously fit in the 9oz! 

shuga_23

mrscjwatts:

I would suggest buying the largest size.  I used the 4oz size in the begining and then switched to the 9oz size....which was completely pointless because whatever fits in the 4oz can obviously fit in the 9oz! 

I only bought small bottles and was worried for a while but they actually fit 5oz and I don't think there are too many babies that take more than 5oz of breastmilk.

But like someone else said...you never know until baby is here. I tried planning everything all out and half the stuff didn't work just because he didn't take to it.

maeghan21

I started off having some glass Avents and glass Dr Brown's. I found that the Avent's leaked all the time so we stuck with Dr. Brown's which I love. Never had gas etc. She barely needed to be burped, not sure if bottle can take credit, but we were happy with them and the parts weren't a pain to clean for us. We stuck with glass up until she got to the larger size bottles b/c they were a bit heavier. The glass was so easy to clean, they dried faster, and would warm up faster. Plus, I just loved them. I was packing away her bottles and saw the old glass ones and I got nostalgic. They just seem so traditional LOL That's just me I liked having the smaller bottles b/c the large ones for a newborn just seem too big.

mjellison81

Thanks all, I appreciate all the thoughts!

We're definitely not buying anything yet, and don't plan on it for some time, but this helps a lot with reviews and thoughts on different products. I'm sure we'll get a couple different styles to try in the beginning and go from there. I have to admit, I have a bit of a crush on the Lifefactory glass bottles though!