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