Baby bottle confusion - please help

[gemini_girl]

I seem to be having a hard time with the new set of bottles I have bought. I've 3 kids, so anyone would think bottles would be the last thing I should have to worry about, but it's not so.

With my older 3 children I used a cheap electric sterilizer and cheap bottles and had no problems, but I have gone all out and spent a fortune buying what I thought would be a good quality set of bottles and equipment this time.

So... my problem is this;

The bottles I have bought do not have sealing discs (which I never knew until I got the pack home and opened it all up). The matching breast pump I bought has some sealing discs and so did the matching baby bottle warmer so I used these to see how I could seal the bottles. I cannot seal the bottle with the teat upside down, inside the bottle, as I done years ago. The teat is designed to fit over an anti colic attachment, making it too thick (and to wide) to sit upside down and be sealed inside the bottle.

It appears I need to seal the bottle with a screw lid and disc lid but then also carry around an extra screw lid with the teat prepared (up the right way), with a cap covering it? This means I would have to buy extra disc lids and many more screw in seals to seal off the lid which is holding the teat while it was not in use so it would stay sterile, but even then I would wonder how sterile it would stay with just having a cap covering it. Does that make sense?

It seems such a hassle but there really is no other option with this particular brand that I have bought and I am wondering if that is what all bottles are like these days... It has been almost 10 years since I have had to deal with baby bottles, but this just seems silly having to carry around seperate lids in this way.

Please tell me this is not what all mothers are doing these days... ? ! ? !

Thanks

[gemini_girl]

Anybody? Pls?

[JaCaMaDy]

I was in the same predicament when I had my DD2, as it has been 15 yrs since I had anything to do with bottles. We have the avent bottles & have found having them prepared with the teat in as normal, with the cap on- the end of the teat is pushed against the cap- effectively sealing it. That's how I transport mine. I don't need to use the sealing discs at all, & have never had one leak. HTH


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[teresa]

i have the tommee tippee closer to nature bottles and they dont have those seals either. i was wondering that after for years watching my mum with preparing bottles for my little sister why they didnt have them. but like the avent ones, the cap pushes down on the teat and stops them from leaking. never had a leak either! HTH

[Kaydee]

I was in the same predicament when I had my DD2, as it has been 15 yrs since I had anything to do with bottles. We have the avent bottles & have found having them prepared with the teat in as normal, with the cap on- the end of the teat is pushed against the cap- effectively sealing it. That's how I transport mine. I don't need to use the sealing discs at all, & have never had one leak. HTH
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Thanks for posting this! - Gemini_girl and I have been chatting about this and I actually thought that when I bought the bottles... Should have tested it to see if I was right! Thanks again!

[Nat82]

I'm not really sure what you mean and why you need the seal, but is it to carry to bottles around? I just screw the teat on and put the bottle lid on (the plastic cap thingy) and it doesn't leak. I think older style bottles used to have the teat upside down and screwed in, but you I don't think you need to do that anymore.

I hope this helps

[Life is Good]

I appreciate your frustration - it is an annoying and (in my opinion) unhygienic trend. Teats are where so much of the bacteria in bottles grow. Having milk swishing around in them when you go out or pre prepare your bottles never sat well with me. We use pigeon bottles and I found myself in the same predicament. I called Pigeon and explained the problem and they sent some seals to me in the mail and now I can store them properly. I would contact the company or Australian distributor and explain the issue and see if they have any solutions for you. I hope you find a solution.

[gemini_girl]

Thank you all for your replies, I was getting a little impatient and rang mum, she is coming up to see what all the comotion is about lol...

Life is Good - TY TY TY that is what I am worried about

...and also, if the bottles are being carried around and one happens to drop and the plastic cover lid falls off (just pushed on) then the teat is no longer sterile - in fact the whole bottle is no longer sterile because as soon as the teat becomes germ infested, so does the rest of the bottle, if you carry spare sterilized teats everywhere you go, which brings us back to the problem of needing to get the seals to seal off the lid where it attaches to the bottle... but then would it be a race against the clock, then that brings us to the argument of the 3 second rule when food is dropped on the floor etc... I don't like it..

[TaRhLi.]

GG: With the newer type bottles you don't use the seals anymore as the teats seal against the screw top properly and you only use the plastic cap to keep it all nice and sterile. The sealing caps are now primarliy used if you want to store formula or breast milk in a bottle and you then insert the seal into the srew cap before refigerating or freezing.

You will find the plastic lids have a much firmer grip on the top of the bottle and there have been numerous times I have dropped bottles and the lid has never fallen off. Give it a go trying to get the lid off with one hand I find it impossible and need both hands to open.

[teresa]

we never carry around milk in our bottles. always put the powder in a container and just carry around warm water in the bottles. that way you dont get clumps of milk sitting in the teat.
if you do happen to drop the teat on the ground and you are out, i would just get some boiling hot water and put the teat in it for 5 mins. any place that sells coffee should be able to provide this for you. also the bottles only stay sterile for a certain amount of time anyway so if you are worried about them being unsterile then you would be sterilising them constantly!