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Top 7 Baby Bottles

By Robin Elise Weiss, LCCE, About.com

Baby bottles can be used in a variety of ways, and how you use the bottles will help determine which bottle is right for you. A good bottle can help prevent stomach upset and other problems associated with bottles. Learn more before you buy bottles, including which are BPA free.

1. Baby Milk Bank Bottles

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The Milk Bank Baby Bottles are a great vented systems with fewer parts to allow your baby to eat without getting painful gas or colic. The wide nipple helps baby to go from the breast and back easily.

2. Avent Bottles

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This bottle is the best bet, particularly for breastfeeding moms who need to use bottles. This bottles has a unique air flow system that has been proven to help prevent gas pain associated with bottle feeding. These bottles also have a separate adapter kit available allowing you to attach the bottle directly to a breast pump. Comes with a variety of nipple sizes based on age, 4 oz. and 9 oz. bottles, and disposable and reusable.
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3. Dr. Brown Bottles

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These bottles also help prevent gas pain, burping and spitting up by preventing the formation of a vacuum within the bottle. They also have the ability to connect directly to a breast pump for ease of use. They have easy to read numbers for accuracy of measurements. Available in wide or regular neck. They are also available in glass bottles in some locations.
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4. Glass Baby Bottles by Evenflo

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These glass bottles by Evenflo are great for storing breast milk or for when you worry about the chemicals that can be found in some plastics.
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5. Adiri Nurser

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The Adiri Nurser is a new twist on the baby bottle. This bottle is polycarbonate-free and bisphenol-A (BPA) free, but is not glass. The nearly one piece system allows you to fill and feed easily, from the base of the nurser. The breast like shape supposedly help babies who nurse go back and forth with ease. The new design als has improved some of the issues with the previous model, the breast bottle, with leaking.
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6. Playtex Ventaire

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These bottles have similar attributes of other bottles, but this angled neck bottle opens from the top or bottom. This can aid in cleaning your bottles.
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7. Second Nature Bottles

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This baby bottle is great for babies who are trying to go between breast and bottle. It allows baby to control the flow of milk and therefore mimics what a nursing baby would experience.

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