Easy Feeding with 'Tommee (Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Bottle)

Member Name: Lisa.Marie

Product:	Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Bottle
Date:	25/08/07 (346 review reads)
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Advantages: easy to clean, easy to handle, cheap, easy latching for baby

Disadvantages: none that i can think of

-- INTRODUCTION --

I am currently breast feeding and bottle feeding little Ethan at the moment, in which the health visitor encouraged it with him being so young it will get him used to bottles. Although the bottles I had was not much good as he had restless feeds and was always cramped up with wind troubles. I do also have a breast pump which I can express my milk into 4oz avent bottles but again he was still having the restless bottle feeds, and still having the wind trouble too. So when I saw these bottles when browsing the Argos Catalogue it was a must buy. Let me tell you why they were so appealing to me.

-- ABOUT THE BOTTLES --

When I saw these bottles the thing that stuck out the most was where it states that the bottles are made to mimic the breast, for easy switching from breast to bottle. There was quite a lot that tempted me to buy these bottles, for the fact also of the anti colic valve it as built into the teats, not that Ethan as yet experience colic but I was told that bottle fed babies are prone to get colic more then breast fed babies, so I wasn’t taking any risks of keeping him on bottles that obviously could get him colic, and is making him have restless feeds.

The bottles themselves are bigger then the normal avent bottles, there is a slimmer part of the bottle near the centre which helps you handle the bottle. The teats are wide neck and again are bigger then the avent teats, although they have to be to mimic the breast I guess, the teats that I have at the moment that came with the bottles are slow flow which I found to be just right for Ethan as with the older bottles I have the teats were hard and to fast flow for him, yet they were suppose to be slow flowing teats. The teats also have built in colic valve as I mentioned above which reduces/stops colic appearing.

The teat is easy for your baby to latch onto, which with the older bottles I was finding he couldn’t latch on to them as the teats was to small for his mouth. The teat is made from soft silicone which gives the natural reflexes of the breast when the baby is feeding.

-- WHAT COMES IN THE BOX --

The box is grey, pink and silver so you cant miss them.

You get 6x 9oz Bottles
6x soft silicone teats
6x bottle lids

-- AVAILIBITY / PRICE --

You can buy these bottles from quite a few places

Argos - £10
Ebay - £15 for 8
Mothercare - £7.49 for 2
Boots - £12.99

These are worth the money you spend on them.

FINAL THOUGHTS

After using these bottles I wouldn’t change back to the other bottles. I would recommend these bottles to everyone that breast feeds, although you don’t need to be breast feeding to use the bottles. I haven’t had a problem with using these bottles, in fact Ethan is very settled and happy when feeding from them, and I don’t have the wind problem with him anyone which is a huge relief. The teats are also able to be placed in the steriliser without taking it off the screw cap, the only time you need to dismantle the teat is when cleaning it in warm soapy water, and are easily fixed back on. The bottles are easy to clean too. They are a little big for the steriliser as I am only able to place 4 bottles and teats in a 6 bottled steriliser, but that doesn’t really make me regret buying them. I also bought the bottles due to me formula feeding as well as breast feeding him as he is underweight at the moment, so I needed to get some good bottles. I dont have a problem in handling the bottles even though they are bigger then normal bottles, and can still feed little one with one hand while keeping the other hand free for a drink or something to eat.

Thank you so much for reading
Hope I have covered everything.

Summary: Best bottles I have used, and these have won awards for being the best bottles.