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Can't say enough bad things about these bottles
I hate everything about these bottles. I honestly don't understand the good reviews. Here's a list for your reading pleasure:
1) Because the bottom is rubber and only a tiny part of it is flat, the bottle get knocked over really easily. Fine if the lids on. Not so great if you have your night's bottles all laid out and you lose a bunch of breastmilk. Try explaining to your wife that she has to wake up to pump again in the middle of the night because the bottles made you do it...
2) You have to have the bottles totally vertical for all of the milk to come out. We have twins and use props so that we don't have to physically hold two bottles at a time. Does not work with these. Also, if you have babies with reflux/colic, research says that you should keep the bottles tipped as little as possible to avoid the milk flowing too fast. Good luck with that with these spheres.
3) They leak if you don't get the nipple on perfectly. Had that happen this morning, which was the final straw for me and prompted me to finally write this review.
4) Measuring milk into these is challenging. The numbers are faint on the side and because of the shape, it's hard to hold the bottle up to the light level to see how much milk is in them accurately.
5) They don't fit in most bottle warmers. I have 6 other kinds of bottles (2 kinds of avent, le boob, 2 kinds of dr. b's, tukumi) and they all fit into my First Years bottle warmer, which actually modifies itself to accommodates larger bottles. The little finger grip on the green ring stops the bottle form going into the warmer at all.
6) You can't see through the bottle. For whatever reason, Comotomo decided to frost the outside of the bottles. Which is fine when milk is up against the sides. You can see it pretty clearly. But when the bottle is tipped onto your baby, it'd be nice to look in from above and see how much is left, but nope. Have to sneak in there under the baby, trying not to disrupt the suction, peaking above their lips to do some quick trigonometry in your head to guess how much volume a graduated cylinder holds...
March 2019 · Baby Products · verified purchase