Customer Reviews

Medela Breastmilk Storage and Feeding Set

5 star:		(30)
4 star:		(27)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I bought these for I needed more bottles to store freezer breastmilk. If you are going to use them also for feeding I found the nipples to flow to quickly for my little one. I used a different bottle for feeding and wish I would have gotten nestmom.com website before purchasing as I got their mother milkmate storage system for 27.00. It includes 10 5oz bottles and a handy rack for the freezer keeping oldest milk in front. The 27 also includes shipping - The bottles fit on both medela and ameda breast pumps. It is well worth the money and wish I hadn't bought the medela bottles as they are no longer being used.

I like all the Medela products, but this came with a few items that I really didn't need. On the plus side, the bottles are sturdy, the caps seal tightly, and the whole thing works with the 'pump in style' breast pump I was using. Also, the nipple-rings are great and work with any brand of nipple you buy. The bottles are also great for freezing milk.

On the negative side, the little discs that go with the nipple rings that they include to create a 'temporary' cap is pretty useless. I wish they had just provided a few more 'full' caps which provide a better seal.

Also, the nipples for all the Medela products were never a favorite with my son, though that might be a personally preference of his. I just use the Playtex or Evenflo nipples with these bottles, and they work just fine.

Last, for some reason, the other caps they provide that are supposed to fit over the nipple & nipple-ring never really fit, so it would often leak out into the diaper bag.

Bottom line: Worth it, I suppose, for the items that work, but ditch the other items as they are not very good.

We purchased these bottles as a way to store breastmilk so my husband could enjoy feeding our son. After I had difficulty nursing, I stopped breastfeeding when our son was 2 months old. These bottles proved more valuable than I had thought. They are great for moms who want to continue to give their babies the benefits of breastfeeding but are unable to. I love them because they were great for pumping because they fit right onto any Medela pump, then you can either use it to feed your baby by adding the nipple, or store it in the fridge or freezer. I especially liked them because it had markings in ounces to let me know how much I pumped. I never had to guess if my son was getting enough milk. The nipple appeared to give our son the same feeling as if he were breastfeeding. He had to work at sucking like he did when he was breastfeeding unlike the usual bottles where it steadily flowed into his mouth. I would recommend these bottles to anyone who is going back to work and is pumping, anyone who wants to breastfeed but can't or has difficulty or anyone who wants to store a supply of breastmilk.

This was great to pump milk right in to, using the Madela hand held pump, as attachments screw right in to the bottles. After pumping milk, they seal up very nicely, and store in the fridge airtight. However, after heating the bottles, and screwing in the nipple attachments to them, our baby didn't feed well out of them, much too fast of a flow, messy, and the latex nipples had strong latex smell, (and I imagine latex taste to baby, we prefer silicone)our baby rejected feedings from these bottles. Nipples were much too small, also, baby would put entire mouth around them, not practical for switching between bottle and breast. I ended up just using them to pump and store milk in, and would nurse baby, and then pour milk in to Playtex Nurser bottles with silicone nipples, to take with me for outside feedings.

If you have a medela pump, you will need one or two sets of these bottles for milk storage and feeding. I originally starting pumping and storing the milk in the freezer bags (Lansinoh bags are the absolute best bags, no leaking, double zipper seals, very strong, and hold six ounces-the others only hold five)but when i discovered that I could freeze these bottles, i realized it would be much easier to pump into them and feed straight out of them. The nipples that came with the set were the weirdest ever, my baby just hated them so we don't use them at all. The caps are very handy too. The bottles will hold a full six ounces of milk, although you don't want to freeze them with that much milk, as you have to leave room in the bottle for expansion. The rings and nipples from our Gerber bottles fill just right, as would any other rings and nipples, i would imagine. They're pretty much universal in size, so if your baby doesn't like these nipples, just buy an inexpensive pack from another brand. I bought this set at Target, for about the same price as on this site, except without the shipping fee. I must say, I've been impressed with my pump in style advanced pump, and wouldn't trade it for anything else. If you're going to have the best pump, might as well have the best of bottles to go with it. These bottles are easy to clean with a bottle brush, or in the dishwasher. Make sure you have plenty, since you'll need two bottles to pump into each time. It does get tedious washing them frequently. Hope this review helps you...good luck.

I have the Medela Pump In Style Traveler pump and needed additional storage containers for the milk. I like the Medela collection/storage bottles in terms of quality. They hold over 5 oz. of milk and seem to seal well. However this set was very expensive to me.. my baby takes the Avent bottles so I just needed something simply for collecting and storing temporarily in the fridge. I didn't need all the caps and nipples that came in this set. But I wanted something more reuseable than the bags. My husband figured out that you can use the Evenflo collection/storage containers with the Medela pump. We got 4 Evenflo bottles for only 4.99-- I could get about 16 collection bottles for the price of 4 Medela ones!

The bottles are fantastic for storing milk either in the freezer or fridge. It is much easier than struggling with storage bags and you don't have to worry about the bottle breaking and wasting your milk.

The reason I give this 3 stars is because the nipples flow too quickly. When inverting the bottle, milk comes out at about 2 drops per second. I thought the nipple design might slow the flow when it was in a mouth so I let my 3 month old son try it. He was choking on the milk and gasping for air because the milk was coming out too fast. Had I not removed the bottle to slow him down frequently, he would have finished 3 ounces in 2 minutes. When I feed him from an Avent bottle with a newborn nipple, 3 ounces normally takes him about 10 minutes to finish, which is almost identical to when he is breastfeeding. I was told by a lactation consultant that any bottle should require the same or more effort than breastfeeding to decrease the chances of your baby becoming a lazy eater and preferring the bottle over breast. Needless to say, I'm keeping the bottles and throwing away the nipples.

I am a working mom who pumps and feeds my son from the bottle. He had a problem with spitting up. We bought 2 of these when I was going back to work so that we could have bottles at home for the day and I could take some to work. The nipples turned out to be the best that we have tried yet! They take a little getting used to because the baby has to put his whole mouth on it and get his lips in the little grooves, but once they get used to it they were wonderful! The hole being on top of the nipple keeps him from gulping so much and solved his spitting up problem. I haven't had any problems with leaks or anything. I love that it came with the solid caps AND the caps with the pop out middle for the nipple AND the nipple cover. We didn't buy them online so we paid a little more than the price here. I still think they are a great value. I will buy more and this time get them for the online price!

I have a medela "pump in style" breastpump, so I use this set daily. It is great for pumping and for storage, but I can't use these nipples for feeding because the milk comes out of the nipple much to quickly (even though they claim to be "low flow" nipples). I had to buy Nuk's low flow nipples instead, and they have worked well with this set. So if you use this set, I would suggest buying other low flow nipples to use with it. Other than that, the set works well.

The medela bottles are fine for collection which is what I use them for. Then I pour the milk into Avent bottles. Anyway, I got sick of washing the Medela bottles EVERYDAY, but didn't want to shell out the $$ for more Medela bottles. Gerber bottles work just as well on the pump and are only $1 per bottle!!