has anyone had any luck with switching to a different type of bottle w/ a stubborn baby?

[hish0lyservant]

my little guy (5 months) has used dr browns since coming home from the hospital. i kid you not he rejects EVERY other type of bottle. he took MAM for a while and also lansinoh but it was short lived. i desperately want to switch him to avent bottles, i have a bunch and i’m so tired of washing all the dr browns parts (a complaint about them we’ve all heard a thousand times lol). but go figure he hates them, the avent naturals AND the anti colic ones. if he insists on staying on dr browns that’s fine, i was just wondering if anyone has any experience with going through this and if it was successful. should i keep trying to have him take avent or is it likely just a waste of time?

 

[nikki225]

@hish0lyservant Ate you using the blue or green ones? The blue ones you can't use without the vents but the green ones you can! If you're using the blue, maybe try the green without the vent and see if he'll take it?

 

[hish0lyservant]

@nikki225 WAIT SERIOUSLY? you have no idea how helpful this is - we have so many natural flows (the blue vent ones) and ever since i switched from AR to bobbie which is much thinner liquid, they leak nonstop even though i have everything perfectly locked in just like i always have (with full vent assembled). never had this issue before when my baby was on AR. i was about to throw them away i’ve been so upset. we have a lot of the green filter ones too they’re just put away, i’m going to get them back out. also we have a few 9oz with the anti colic vents and have never had a leaking issue so that makes sense!! we don’t need the filter, just thought we HAD to use it because we did with the natural flow. thank you!

 

[pollysorry]

@nikki225 Wait what?

 

[mickeym]

@hish0lyservant I havent had experience switching. I get the frustration. But I would say if that’s what he likes, I’d just chalk it up to that and not waste time there.

 

[hish0lyservant]

@mickeym yep i honestly think i need to just let it go. already spent too much energy and money on this whole thing.

 

[clearfix]

@hish0lyservant I don’t personally have much experience with this but you might try posting in /r/beyondthebump or /r/babybumps and get more answers there since some people pump and give bottles, you might get more answers that way since this group is a lot smaller than those. I don’t mean it in a bad way I just notice a lot of posts here don’t always have a lot of comments!

Some babies just won’t take certain bottles though unfortunately no matter how much you try- I know my friend had a lot of trouble with this with her son. If you’re looking for a bottle with less parts (I wanted to use dr browns but when I saw how many parts there was I was like aw hell no! Lol) try to maybe look for a bottle that had a similar shape nipple to dr browns if you haven’t already? We had great luck with the nuk simply natural bottles. My girl wouldn’t take avent at all but she eats great from the nuk, it has a flatter nipple shape. I know it’s hard though because you could spend tons of money trying other bottles and baby hates them all and that’s just money down the drain.

 

[hish0lyservant]

@clearfix thank you, wasn’t sure the best place to post this but i think you’re right! despite all of us in this subreddit using bottles it is specifically about the topic of formula

we truly have spent tons of money and it’s basically a waste, although i will definitely donate most of the bottles. ahh i’ve only tried nuk simply natural once, i’m going to bust that one out one more time and see how he does with it. but yeah like you said, you can try all you want but sometimes it just is what it is. appreciate the response!

 

[moichepit]

@hish0lyservant You can use the green vented bottles without the vent parts OR find a bottle with same width as the nipple ring, should work. I had these little 4 oz pumping bottles from the nicu and I can use the nipple ring on that.

 

[katrina2017]

@hish0lyservant In a similar boat as we bought several different types of bottles for our daughter.

It seems like every wide neck bottle, she struggled with. We tried Comotomo, Avent, and even Dr. Brown’s wide neck.

We kept ending up coming back to the regular Dr. Brown’s bottles and she seems to do best on those.

 

[holyhelper]

@katrina2017 Yeah I wanted my son to do well with wide necks because there is so much less formula powder spilled on our counter with those. But he is bad at latching on them all

 

[katrina2017]

@holyhelper Exactly. My daughter seems to have a smaller mouth and leaks formula out of the corners of her mouth pretty consistently with the wider bottles.

Maybe when she’s bigger it will be a better fit, but for now, we use what works.

 

[katrina2017]

@hish0lyservant Yeah, my kid spent two months in the NICU and they got her hooked on DB’s. I just throw the parts in the dishwasher honestly. Third rack and bottle jets.

 

[dojona]

@hish0lyservant Have you tried a similar nipple shape? Like a cheapie Evenflo classic bottle?

 

[hish0lyservant]

@dojona that’s one i haven’t tried!! i think i remember hearing that they are extremely similar i just totally forgot, thank you i’ll check them out.

 

[herooftheday]

@hish0lyservant The Evenflo twist bottles actually work with all the Dr. Brown’s interior bits and the nipples/white cap things are interchangeable, so it may actually be a 1 for 1 change! We bought Evenflo glass ones and stripped a set of Dr. Brown’s plastic bottles for parts when we couldn’t find just the Dr. Brown’s glass bottles for sale anywhere, and everything is interchangeable between the two.

 

[hish0lyservant]

@herooftheday this is GREAT to know, i appreciate it so much!

 

[dojona]

@hish0lyservant I hope it works! I figured they're cheap enough to just try before giving in and washing those dang pieces. I hated those. Remember they don't take bottles forever!!

 

[pollysorry]

@hish0lyservant I’m in this same boat but with a 6 month old. We also used dr browns and wanted to switch to avent glass bottles…. She sucked for like 5 minutes, got nothing and screamed for the next 20 minutes. I’m currently too scarred to try again! So no advice but solidarity !