Dr. Brown’s Natural Flow® Anti-Colic Options+™ Narrow Baby Bottles 8 oz/250 mL, with Level 1 Slow Flow Nipple, 3 Pack, Purple, 0m+

These bottles are fantastic! They’re made of high-quality materials and have a cute design. They’re pretty leak-proof unless you fill them above the line that says ‘do not fill above this line.’ If you do, they’ll start pouring out for no apparent reason. Cleaning them by hand is a bit tricky because there are so many tiny holes and different parts to clean. But that’s the only downside I can think of. Overall, they’re amazing! They’re easy to hold and function fine.

Dr Brown’s bottles, in general, are great!! Each one, however, is slightly different and overall I prefer the Options, even though my baby is not old enough to use valve-less. I have the original (terrible at spills, because the white cap in the shape of a top hat, sort of, doesn’t stop any liquid at all; they have clear bottles, blue tubies, and whitish valves). I have 4oz blue Options (great, easy parts, thumb print on the lid is awesome for popping that sucker off, and the lid also has these bumps that line up with the nipple, where it slows down the leaking of liquids, and keeps the leak in the cap, although given the ease of taking the cap off, it can still get really messy). (Sorry for the run on sentences, I’m a sleep deprived mama!!) I have the 4oz pink Options (similar to the blue, but actually the valve fits very snuggly along with the tubey part into the bottle, so that can be handy when trying to put the bottle together or add formula, while also holding a baby - more stable than any of the other bottles, where the tubey/valve pieces are just loose kind of sitting on top of the bottle; similar cap as the blue, but no thumb print, and harder to get the cap off, especially one handed). Lastly, I have the 8oz Options with plain bottles and with the Dream/Adventure and Animal characters, all with the green valves and tubies, and the similar cap to the blue, except they are clear, thumbprint included! These have been great, and the animal characters are super cute; the ‘dream big’ and ‘adventure awaits’ are cute-meh. The only thing I was disappointed in that set, is that half the bottles had characters, and half were plain. I may be off on the count, because I bought two sets, but I remember being bummed that I paid a premium for cuteness, and didn’t get a full set of cuteness! I do not own, but have used some purple wide bottles that I was loaned while traveling. That was great, so I wouldn’t have to carry a bunch of bottles, but I wouldn’t/didn’t buy them; they’re just too wide for my taste, harder to handle, especially one handed, and I didn’t feel the wide nipple was significantly better for my baby girl. I will address two of the main two complaints I’ve seen about Dr. Brown’s: leaking and too many parts to clean! Leaking, yes, totally a thing, but it does in fact say on the bottle to only fill to X line to avoid leaking! Having said that, it is very hard for my brain to perfectly calculate how much water I need for the formula, where I don’t end up exceeding the volume specified on ghe bottle! I personally don’t think it’s a huge issue. I know it’s going to or probably will, leak, given the liquid in the bottle, and what I do is to keep a cloth or bib under the bottle when she first starts drinking, and after the liquid is down a bit, I just open the bottle up and pull the valve/tubey piece up a bit, and several big drops come flying down the side of the bottle, which I just wipe off with the same bib/cloth. I can immediately get the bottle put back together before my daughter complains too terribly much. Remember, this is only an issue when you’re filling the entire bottle, either 4oz or 8, so at that point the baby is a bit older and can hopefully handle the briefest of pauses without too much of an issue. If my daughter were the type to go full on nuclear melt down, I think I would probably have to be more diligent about staying under the line, and offering more milk, once the bottle’s finished, and a fuller belly is less likely to melt down. Ok, regarding too many parts to clean... there’s what? Two extra parts that other bottles don’t have? Meh. But I will totally recommend getting the Dr Brown’s dishwasher baskets!!! Oh. Dude. Awesome sauce, life-saving, yes. I am very green, sustainable oreinted, so I cringe at how much water I’m consuming running the dishwasher sometimes every day. So not cool. And, I’m also a sole parent, so I gots a lot to take care of, dishwashy basket is a must!! I have 4. : 0 ) I’m not a super fan of washing the nipples in the dishwasher, so I still do those by hand, no biggy. There’s even special baskets for just nipples; someone gave them to me, but no, I no likey since it looks like there’s still a film on the inside.My experience with Dr Brown’s bottles in general, has been awesome! I don’t even remember when I sorta stopped burping my baby (she’s six months now), it just happened organically over time, but when I was burping her (maybe for three months?), she would only have one, maybe two burps. She burps on her own now, but then maybe that’s just her, the point is that there was very little gas! She had a wee bit of reflux as a newborn, but that’s normal I think, what with having an immature gut as a tadpole-baby. I gave her probiotics and kept her upright-ish, and I think the bottles helped. Ultimately, I totally recommend them!! They were recommended to me by my sister, 8 years ago, as my nephew’s salvation, hope they work for you!

These bottles are great! Very good quality, and the design on them looks very good. They are really good about leaking unless you fill above the line that says do not fill above this line. Because then it’ll pour out for whatever reason that is. Cleaning them by hand is kind of difficult because there’s so many small little holes and different things you have to clean but that’s the only bad thing I can say about these bottles. Other than that they’re amazing!

I don’t like that they leak all the time!!!

I love Dr Brown bottles, I have tried the other popular bottles (Nanobebe, Comotomo, MAM, Lansinoh, Phillips Avent) and this is the ONLY bottle my baby would correctly latch to. I was exclusively breastfeeding for her first month so when it was time to introduce the bottle I was nervous and I got all the popular bottles and she wouldn’t latch to any of them and so she will make the clicking sound and sometimes even choke! I was desperate and the first time I tried Dr Brown bottles she latched perfectly but the flow was too fast for her so I got her the ultrapremiee nipples and it was perfect for her. I think those nipples are ultra slow and she was able to learn how to breath when drinking from a bottle. She used those nipples for 2 weeks and then I saw a huge improvement and got the Premiee nipples (next level) she was on those for other 2 weeks and then I move her to Level 1 (this purple bottle come with the level 1 nipple) and today I gave her the level 2 nipples and she is doing amazing. I am so happy to have found Dr Brown bottles, she has never had an issue with gas or colic, she never cries and loves her bottles. The purple color is so pretty I love them even more than the pink ones and now that she is driinking 4 to 6 oz is the perfect size. I know it has many parts to clean but I don’t mind it because it helps my baby so much and she doesn’t choke anymore and like I said never had an issue with gas I don’t even use the gas drops or the gripe water. The way this bottle works it doesn’t let air bubbles mix with her milk. I have never had an issue with leaks (I always make sure to fill under the correct line, if you fill it too much it says it can leak, like I said that has beber happened to me). You get a travel disc that you are supposed to use so the bottle doesn’t leak when you put it in your diaper bag and I make sure to always use it. In this way even in the bottle is upside down it won’t leak. I also have the travel caps that I got with another Dr Browns set and I think those will work best for traveling or storing this on your cooler (specially if you are exclusively pumping like me).

Excellent product

Super cute. Only bottles my child would use and the only bottles that did not exuberate her tummy problems.

Durability and quality are good, best bottle I have found that doesn’t let baby ingest air while eating. only issue is after shaking the bottle to mix formula it tends to leak