Customer Reviews

Dr. Brown's Natural Flow Glass Bottle 2-Pack, 3.5 oz

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These were recommended to us and now I'm passing it on!

- love the fact that they're glass...don't have to worry about the effects of plastic, etc.
- my exclusively breastfed 6wk old baby has no trouble switching between these bottles and the breast
- we've been very lucky and have avoided the colic phase...but we just recently started using these bottles, so I think the real reason behind that is that I eat almost no dairy products (babies often can't process the milk proteins, thus making their tummies hurt...plus research has shown an association of dairy products with diabetes, allergies, etc. Off topic, I know, but I'm a doctor and had to throw that in there!) Anyway, our baby has no problem with gas/burping when using these bottles.
- cleaning them is an extra step due to the ventilation system, but if it helps my baby avoid tummy troubles, so worth it! Comes with a little brush to clean the ventilation system.
- perfect size
- reasonable price (usually around $12.99 for two bottles)

was that they don't have protective silicone sleeves like other brands, but today I tried evenflow's cozy sleeves and they fit just perfectly.

So, before I begin my review of this product, here's our background... our son who is currently 6 weeks has had to be sent to the hospital with gas pains so severe that the emergency room doctors were concerned that he might be trying to pass a kidney stone. Turns out he was allergic to soy, we had tried breast, standard formula and lactose intolerance formula. He had a negative reaction to all (including breast believe it or not, I went through tests also to determine what was in my milk even though I was on a mild diet.... cause was deemed later on to be for a substance need, our baby needed rice formula). So..... we tried just the rice formula with the children's mylicon with the VentAire bottles.... somewhat of an improvement, but our child was still needing to go to the doctor weekly for checkups without much success, our pediatrician would even call us daily to see how he was doing. Constipation was questioned, but was never an issue. Our breakthrough occurred when we took our son to a specialist appointment and the lady asking us if our son had excess gas since she noticed that Mylicon was listed as one of his meds. I stated quickly yes and told her of our ordeal. I was told that she was the grandmother of 5 children and a mother of 3 and had tried EVERYTHING to cure their extreme colic. The remedy they found, Hyland's colic tablets, Dr. Brown's bottles, and rice formula. After the doctor appointment I went to the store to give these products a try....... and it was like an angel had spoken to us. Our child could breathe again and was longer tense in the body, as he was making progress against constantly trying to push. I know that I'm being candid but I am hoping that this will help other parents and children that have been or will be in our situation. We are on day 4 of the product switch and WOW, he's a brand new baby! If these products can help a child who's been hospitalized, hopefully these can help yours as well. Pedialyte also works as well to help calm the tummy. I've been using tylenol every 5 hours (excluding when he sleeps) for the first week and have been continuing to use the Mylicon to help with the surface gas. Burping has never been an issue, but his burps and toots have become louder and more productive, sometimes just shifting him in our arms can help him to expel gas! I'll be making this post in numerous areas in hopes to help people.

Hyland's colic tablets, Dr. Brown bottles, Enfamil AR Lipil, infant's tylenol, gas drops is literally our formula to success.

I'm nursing my first child and we use Dr. Brown's glass bottles when I can't be there for her. Because this is my first child and we started off with Dr. Brown's, I have nothing to compare these to but they were recommended by the home health nurse that visited us after my daughter was born and we think they're fine. I like using glass with her rather than plastic for health reasons and there were only two brands to choose from when we went shopping. She is a gassy baby, but I can't blame the bottles for that since she is mostly breastfed. The only negative I can mention is that there is a piece of the venting system that is somewhat difficult to keep clean - we have to be extra vigilant about scrubbing in hard-to-reach places, but Dr. Brown's does include a tiny brush for this purpose.

There must have been a typo in the price which inspired many negative reviews of this bottle, which everyone seems to like. Looks like it has been fixed now, but they are still cheaper at my local Babies R Us.

I love these bottles, because i dont have to worry about BPA that is found in alot of plastic. I love that no air bubbles are in there when my daughter is drinking from it, therefor she doesnt get as much gas.

Tried this as my second trial glass brand bottles! Faaaaar too complicated to wash with various shapes and bends and pipes to brush clean. Not at all worth the effort since I started my 3rd trial glass brand - Born Free (which takes the cake!)

these bottles are great as they are BPA free . glass looks clean and new after several washes and sterlisations unlike the plastic ones that look beaten up. it DOES have small parts that need to be cleaned but it just takes a minute or two more...i love them. and they do not leak !

Settled on the Dr. Brown's glass bottles after trying a couple of others, including the Adiri natural nurser. Works as advertised, easy to use and to clean. Ignore review about being overpriced - same price as Babies 'r' Us

My 4 1/2 month old son loves these bottles - as do I. It's the perfect ounce size and the bottle, though glass, is very lightweight. They are very easy to clean, but takes more time because of the parts and pieces. We decided to go with glass because it's so much better for babies. I just don't trust plastic baby bottles and will not resort to it unless I have to. We have 6 of these in rotation and are thinking of getting more. I will use these for baby #2 as well.

My son has only spit up twice in his life (in the very beginning) and has never had colic. Great bottles!

These bottles are similar to all of Dr. Brown's, which is a good design. The glass is sturdy and a great alternative to plastic.

That said, I find it somewhat distressing that the measuring scale is off. I used a chemist's calibrated graduated cylinder to check the accuracy after I noticed some differences compared to the plastic models. While the milliliter scale is pretty accurate, the ounces are off. It's clear even looking at the printed scale that something is wrong. Here are the actual conversion factors from ounces to milliliters (approximately):

1 oz. = 29.6 mL
2 oz. = 59.1 mL
3 oz. = 88.7 mL

However, when you actually look at the bottle scales, they read about:

1 oz. = 31.5 mL
2 oz. = 60 mL
3 oz. = 91 mL

So, basically the problem is that the ounce scale is "compressed" too much, leading to an error of 0 to 3 mL, depending on the amount. It's an obvious error when you look at how the scales line up. That may seem insignificant, but over a couple days, that can add up to a collective error of an ounce or more. For older babies, that's probably not an issue, but for preemies or newborns in the first few weeks, that amount of accuracy can matter if you want to know how much your baby is eating.

The good news is that the ounce scale does seem to accurately line up to the mL scale around the 2 oz. mark, which is the most common measurement for mixing powdered formula. But if you're using measurements outside this range and care about accuracy, you may want to read the mL scale (which appears to be accurate) instead of the oz. scale.

It's rather distressing that the quality control of Dr. Brown's is poor enough to imprint obviously inaccurate measurement scales on their bottles. You'd think they would do basic calibration and quality control. (I should note that the 4 oz. plastic bottles appear to have accurate scales and don't suffer from this problem, for whatever reason.)