Bottles/pacifiers

Before you go buying out the store, remember: it's not up to you. It's up to baby. I used the playtex nurses with drop-ins for my first 2 no problem... I literally had to try EVERY bottle under the sun with my 3rd... and he finally settled on Dr Browns. Don't go buying a whole lot of any one bottle until BABY knows what they like ;)

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I am curious, have you thought about breastfeeding? I have read articles recently about colic being primarily in formula fed babies usually because of their "virgin guts". Apparently new babies' bellies have little "holes" in them and formula can irritate them. Just a suggestion. If not, I used Avent and Tommee Tippee ones when I wasn't nursing. The Tommee Tippees have an air valve to reduce colic.

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I used the Playtex drop-ins. Both of my children were BF and I just pumped directly into the drop-ins liners and froze them (you can get sealing disks). After they were frozen, I would take the sealing disks off and put the frozen sleeve of milk into a Gallon size Ziplock baggie (still in the freezer, obviously). :) It worked great at daycare, because I would take the Gallon ziplock bag full of sleeves of milk to daycare and our daycare lady could pull out however many sleeves of milk for the day and thaw them out. As far as costs are concerned, the generic liners work just as well and are a little cheaper (Parent's Choice, Walgreens, etc.). I am not familiar with Dr. Brown bottles.

As for pacifiers, our son loved the Nuk pacifiers. Our daughter wouldn't take any type of pacifier and sucks her thumb (sigh!).

I used Playtex in the early months and later switched to Avent. My kids were fine with both.

I love Dr. Browns used them with my son (4), granddaughter (2 1/2) and grandson (10 months). Some children will suck any pacifier you give them others like my son after 15 tries finally found one he liked (Nuk) the also only would take the Dr. Browns at his sisters house and would only use the Nuk at home.

Avent bottles and pacifiers for both kids...no issues.

We used Avent on all 3.

Dr. Browns are extremely hard to get totally clean. The tubes just never look completely clean. I threw them all away. I would use any bottle that is easy to wash.

I am not sure what the exact issues he had were but breastmilk usually helps with colic a lot. Bonus is that you won't need as many bottles if you breastfeed.

Dr. Browns are a life saver!!!

My husband and I wanted to use glass bottles, and with our daughter being very gassy, we ended up using Dr. Brown's bottles. They worked great for us, and it's really not all that much "extra" cleaning (that being the biggest complaint I had heard when I was researching).

She also loved the MAM pacifier. We tried Nuk and a couple other ones, but ended up always coming back to the MAM.

We use dr browns and even the sip cup, they are AWESOME!

My son used the playtex drop in's. He has always had tummy issues and those worked best for him. The drop in's can get expensive, but you dont have to throw them away each time. I always as soon as he was done, washed the drop in with hot water and soap and reused them numerous times before I changed them. It really didnt get expensive. A box of a 100 lasted us quite awhile.

The "MAM" brand, which you can find on Amazon.

It is BPA free, has a natural nipple, it not expensive, and comes in 3-packs too.
My son LOVED this bottle, as did I.
It is the best.
Not found here commonly, but is common in Europe