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Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Bottle |
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16.08.07 (549 review reads) |
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Advantages: look good and cheaper than avent
Disadvantages: not as good as avent
Tommee Tippee Closer to nature Bottles
The moment I saw these bottles I thought that they looked really smart and as I had an Amazon voucher to spend I thought I would invest in a couple and see how they faired compared to the more widely used baby bottles made by Avent. I already had a few Avent bottles given to me from a friend and I just had to buy some new teats for them so comparing the two was easy.
I paid around £10 for three of these Tommee Tippee bottles that hold 260ml and that price includes the postage and packaging costs, minus that it would have cost around £8. Now this compared to Avent is probably slightly cheaper as I have recent bought some of my own large Avent Bottles and I paid £15 for four from Boots, so buying Avent it works out a little more expensive.
These Tommee Tippee bottles are called closer to nature and this is because they have a super soft silicone teat that is said to resemble to breast as much as possible. This I suppose would be very handy if you were breast feeding as well as bottle feeding and perhaps expressing your own milk and using one of these bottles would make it much less confusing for the baby being fed. I however have not breast fed at all so the fact that they are said to be as close to a breast as possible really has no affect on me or on baby jack.
These bottles can be used from birth and have an easy hold design that I expect is meant for the child rather than the parent. The shape of the bottle merely has a smaller bit in which to hold on to and this I think would be good for when the child is able to feed themselves. When I use these bottles now this shape probably has more of a negative affect rather than a positive as with the large Avent bottles I am able to hold Jack in my left arm and also hold the bottle with my left hand, leaving my right hand to do other things such as read a little, drink something of my own or generally free to scratch any body part that may need a good itch!!! These Tommee Tippee bottles however have the shape where this is not really possible for me to do along with the fact that because the teat is much smaller and more flexible that if I do try and do this the teat will invariably fall from Jacks mouth or slide to the side where he cant really get a good suck. So when using these bottles I am having to use my left arm for holding and my right for feeding leaving me able to do anything else!
The bottles are said to have a unique super-sensitive anti colic value that in my personal experience did not help with Jack getting colic, however I have been using both these and the Avent bottles so maybe if I stuck to just this type then he could not of got the colic.
The bottle came with a teat flow number 1 which is the slowest feed teat available but compared to the Avent teat number 1 I still found these a little faster flowing. As Jack has been such a hungry baby we have had to give him rather large bottles of feed and the teat 1 on Avent was far to slow for him to get the right amount without him falling asleep so we changed for the teat number 2 fairly soon however we didn’t need to change the teat with these bottles until fairly recently when we have upped his feed yet again! (He’s on the 95th centile for height weight and head circumference, which means he’s going to be a big boy!)
Ok, so to come to some conclusion about these bottles. Well all in all I think I do prefer to use the Avent bottles. Jack seems to feed better when using those and it is by far easier to hold the bottle and him with the Avent ones. Even though these Tommee Tippie bottles may be slightly cheaper I really don’t think they are better value as in this case you really get what you pay for.
Because the Avent ones are more popular you will find it far easier to get teats for the Avent bottles as opposed to the Tommee Tippee. The sterilisers that Avent do are perfect for the Avent bottles but fit less of these bottles in. Overall I would tend to say stick to the Avent bottles as these seem like a much better product to use.
Summary: not as popular as Avent and not as good
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