Bottles & Sippies: Born free
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Avent or Born Free Bottles???
Asked by D.G. from San Diego
on December 22, 2009
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I am due to have my 2nd baby in January and I can't decide which bottles to use. I will be breastfeeding as long as possible but will still need bottles. I used Aven...
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- Born Free, hands down. My daughter became a totally different baby with these bottles. Less spitting up (she spit up a ton), slept better. I have a new one on the w...
- I use born free and my little man had bad gas until I switched to them, never tried avant but am very hapy with bf!
- i think you should be conderned about plastics and should use the glass bottles.
Question About Born Free Bottles
Asked by C.A. from Dallas
on June 8, 2008
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I recently started using Born Free bottles with my 6 week old twin boys. Several times I've noticed that the nipple kind of collapses during a feeding - which is some...
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- I wish I had advice for you, but instead I have a question! I nursed both of my children, but my first born used Advent bottles for pumped feedings. My second refuse...
- I'm not sure about the Born Free bottles but I've heard that evenflo comfort ease is very similar to avent and is BPA free. it also says on the box that it is "similar...
- I hate to say this because I know those bottles are expensive, but I have stopped using mine. I spent $90 online ordering a set of them (before they were carried at t...
Born Free Bottles
Asked by M.B. from San Francisco
on December 20, 2008
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Is anyone else having trouble with Born Free bottles? My son liked them at first but he seems to have a hard time now. I have to change the nipple several times before...
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- Hi M.- What's important is that your baby is eating! I have friends and family alike who have chosen all different routes or combined different types of feeding just ...
- I use the same bottle with my 2 month old son, and some of the nipples kind of suck back into the bottle when he is eating so he can't get the formula out. Maybe the ...
- Advent worked for me. I bottle fed both of my kids and they both responded well to the advent bottle.
Nipple Change for Born Free Bottles
Asked by A.A. from Chicago
on December 22, 2008
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we use the born free bottles and their nipples come in stages (levels 1-3 and 2 extras). my husband and i were havinga dicussion on ifyou HAVE to change nipples.
cu...
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- I'm with your husband. Here's something to tink about going forward. The engine of our consumer economy and consumer culture is DEMAND. A lot of smart people get pa...
- You have to be careful changing up, it may come out too fast for her and she can gag on her formula. I have the 3rd level on born free for mydaycare boy, he eats alot...
- I'm with your husband on this one. I think the numbering on packages is purely marketing. Would you put your kid in 2T cloths if her 18 month fit fine, but she is now ...
Transitioning from Bottle to Sippy
Asked by K.C. from Chicago
on September 16, 2009
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I'm trying to transition my 10month old from a bottle to a sippy cup. I bought the training cup from Born Free. As he uses their bottles. I gave him it today and no...
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- My daughter's first sippy was a Nuby. It was the one with the soft drinking spout, and ever since the first time using it, she has never had a bottle again. She is n...
- My son is almost 11 months and we also use Born Free. I had tried him on their sippy cup a couple of times and he had the same frustration, drinking less than an ounc...
- Why are you transitioning so soon? I can see where you might not want to put him to nap with a bottle to protect teeth but children need that sucking motion.it is a co...
How to Transition from Bottle to Sippy Cup
Asked by R.L. from Chicago
on July 20, 2008
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Can anyone help with suggestions on how to transition from a bottle to sippy cup? My 13 month old is very attached to her bottle and doesn't seem to like the sippy cu...
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- Hi R., I'm A., and I'm a mom of 3: ages 9, 6, and 15 months. To transition, I would first just offer the sippy between meals with snacks. Try filling it with dilute...
- I am with a couple of the other responses. Try the straw cups. Neither of my kids ever used a sippie. Part of it was they did not see why they had to tilt a cup when ...
- This is what worked for us: I started mixing milk with water in the bottle and pure milk in the cup. I started with replacing 1 oz and then increasing that every d...
Weaning from Bottle to Sippy Cup
Asked by A.W. from Phoenix
on November 4, 2008
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My first was a breeze. She just no longer had a bottle. She also never gave herself a bottle, we would snuggle with her and feed it to her so when it came time to we...
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- I switched cold turkey from bottle to training cup before my son turned 1. Born Free makes some great cups, I started with the training cup and there is also a drinkin...
- Since she is so independent, maybe she would appreciate the opportunity to drink from a small regular cup for starters and be like her big sister? Then maybe over time...
- My son was pretty attached to his bottles and when the time came to get rid of them I just packed them up and gave all of them to a friend who had just had a baby. Th...
Switching from Bottle to Sippy Cup
Asked by M.H. from Miami
on October 12, 2008
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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to transition my son from a bottle to a sippy cup. He'll be 1 year old in a couple of weeks and I wanted to start working with ...
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- three words... just do it. i have 19 month old twins and a 3 year old... we did the same thing with all of them per their pediatrician... at one year we took away bott...
- There are sippy cups with a "nipple" like mouthpiece that makes the transition easier. Really just about any soft mouthpiece will work. Good luck!
- Have you just tried one type of sippy cup? When I was trying to get my son used to the sippy cup, I went through a few until I found one that was to his liking. One ...
Sippy Cup
Asked by S.B. from Sacramento
on March 6, 2009
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My sister has a 10 month old that refuses to drink from a sippy cup. She has tried 2 different sippy cups and still he wont drink from anything but his bottle. Anyon...
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- we let our son experiment with a regular cup first. we got little plastic tumblers from target at low cost. we put a little water in it and just let him try to use it....
- My son wasn't ever really on a bottle, but he didn't take to the sippy cup at first. I think its' a different form of sucking that they aren't used to. Try taking the ...
- He's still young, let him drink from the bottle longer. My youngest, as I've said before, had a bottle until he was 4, 'cause we got lazy, and he's fine, teeth are fine.
"No Sippy Cups!"
Asked by R.B. from Washington DC
on April 29, 2008
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My son just turned 1 yr. old April 28th. He LOVES his bottle. I have 3 different kinds of sippy cups I'm trying to get him to transition to- and he wants no part of an...
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- I used the Avent bottles, and they make a sippy cup top for them, with a soft spout. My DD converted over with no fuss whatsoever and then we moved into regular sippys...
- My daughter (15 months) did not take well to sippies either. Soft spouts are key. For me, the Born Free TRAINING cup (not drinking, it has a hard spout) helped her...
- Try a regular kid's cup, no lid, occassionally. It's good to encourage them to drink that way and gets them used to a REAL cup. Even very very young infants can drin...
