Comotomo

I was a loyal Dr. Brown's bottle user since Michael was born. A co-worker of mine who had a baby in March of 2012 was telling me how his daughter used the Dr. Brown's bottles, so that's what I put on my baby registry for Michael who was born in August of 2012. Michael took the Dr. Brown's bottles like a champ and actually wouldn't take any other kind of bottle even though I had some tommee tippee Closer To Nature bottles. My husband and I actually had a bet one night that I would keep feeding Michael with a bottle until his latch broke. And with a Dr. Brown's bottle, his latch did not break. I bought Dr. Brown's bottles from consignment sales; of course I had to buy new nipples every time. I accumulated so many Dr. Brown's bottles over a year. 

When Noah was born I breastfed him just like I had breastfed Michael. But around four months, Noah became allergic to the milk proteins in my breast milk so I had to switch him to formula. So he was a pretty expert bottle drinker since he had to drink bottles all of the time. He took Dr. Brown's bottles no problem but he also did really well with the tommee tippee bottles. I preferred using the tommee tippee bottles because all I had to wash was a bottle, a collar, and a nipple whereas with the Dr. Brown's bottles there was a bottle, a nipple, a nipple collar, a valve, and a stem. That's a lot of bottle pieces to wash every single day!

I'm still a proponent of Dr. Brown's bottles and I recommended them to my sister-in-law. I sold a few of my Dr. Brown's bottles at a consignment sale before we were ever planning to have a third baby on our own. So once we did find out we were pregnant, I was afraid that I wouldn't have enough bottles, so I went out and bought a whole bunch more Dr. Brown's bottles and new nipples to go with them. Then I found a stash of Dr. Brown's bottles that I actually hadn't sold. So needless to say, I was up the wazoo with Dr. Brown's bottles.

Avery really took a Dr. Brown's bottle fine for the first month and a half of her life. Then she started not taking them so well. She would actually gag as soon as the nipple touched her lips which was weird. I thought it was just when I was trying to feed her a bottle because I assumed she wanted to nurse instead. But my mother-in-law mentioned that she was having the same issue with Avery at her house during the day while I was at work. So I figured it was time to try something different.

Someone had given us a gift card to Babies R Us when Avery was born. That's not really a store that I shop at a lot because we don't have one in our town. But I had read reviews on the Comotomo bottle and knew that I couldn't get those at Target. I had read reviews a couple years ago from Jessica Garvin of Garvinandco.com. Then most recently I have seen my favorite mom of multiples to follow on Instagram, whimsic_al, use the Comotomo bottles with her triplet baby girls. And her babies are 9 months old now, but they were holding their own bottles around the time they were like 6 months old. Noah did not start holding his own bottle until he was around 8 months old and Michael was well over 9 months old before he was ever holding his own bottle.

Then whimsic_al made an instastory about how one of her triplet baby girls had really bad reflux and they were trying to find a bottle that wouldn't cost so much reflux. So they tried out the Comotomo bottles because there are two little air vents in the nipple itself. And the bottle is made of silicone, and the nipple is very wide to mimic the shape of a breast. And whimsic_al said that as soon as this baby tried the Comotomo bottles, the reflux stopped. Avery had been having a little bit of an issue with reflux, so I was super anxious to give this bottle a try.

So I searched on the Babies R Us site and I bought a pack of the 5 ounce bottles and the 9 ounce bottles. So we tried out a 5-ounce bottle when it came and it was a game changer. Avery took the bottle no problem. She did not have spit up after she was done. She only had one tiny burp as opposed to pretty huge burps before. I really liked how the bottle is called "breastfeeding in a bottle" because the bottle itself kind of feels soft like a breast and the nipple shape is supposed to mimic the shape of a breast. So it's really good for babies who go back and forth between the breast and the bottle. I also appreciated the fact that it's three pieces just like the tommee tippee bottles. It's a bottle, a collar, and a nipple. 

The 5 ounce bottles come with the size 1 nipples, and the 9 oz bottles come with a size 2 nipples. You can buy the size 3 nipples and the Y cut nipples separately. The bottles are kind of expensive because you only get two in a pack and I think I paid about $20 for the five ounce bottles and $25 for the 9 ounce bottles. So once we knew that this was the bottle for Avery because of how well she did with it, I knew that I wanted to buy some size 1 nipples to go with a 9 oz bottles until she's old enough to take the size 2 nipples. So I got on Amazon! The bottles are easily found there, and they're pretty much the same price as on Babies R Us. They might even be a little bit cheaper on Amazon. So I ordered two size 1 nipples. They came two in a pack. They arrived and fit perfectly. So now we're using the five ounce bottles and the 9 oz bottles with size 1 nipples until she's big enough to take the size 2 nipples. 

She still pretty much exclusively nurses when she's with me, so I don't really get the chance to give her a bottle very much. But it's nice to know that we have these bottles here in case I ever did need to give her a bottle or when it's Aaron's turn to give her a bottle. It's really just a relief to know that my baby will take a bottle without gagging. I definitely recommend these bottles and I plan to keep using them as long as they hold up. I'm also hoping that she will be able to hold her own bottle sooner than either of the boys did.

Thanks for reading to the end of this very long random post about bottles!

Until Next Time,
Much Love, Reba