How to choose a bottle

How to choose a bottle is an important tool for babies to eat. It is very important to choose a good bottle. It is a simple thing for experienced parents, but it is not simple for novice parents. Here's how to choose a bottle.

How to choose a bottle 1 1 depends on the material.

At present, there are two kinds of baby bottles on the market: glass and plastic.

Baby within 6 months: it is best to use glass, which has high heat resistance, is not easy to deform and is easy to clean. Although the glass is heavy, this month's baby needs to be fed by adults, so the impact is not great.

Baby after 6 months: you can choose plastic material, which is light in weight and not afraid of falling, which is convenient for your baby to learn to drink water from a cup. However, plastic materials are easy to leave milk stains and are not easy to be disinfected repeatedly. It's best to prepare a plastic bottle when taking the children out.

Step 2 look at the caliber

Bottles are mainly divided into wide caliber and standard caliber. Wide caliber, easy to make milk powder and easy to clean. Standard caliber can be used for drinking water or connecting a breast pump.

3. Look at the capacity

The capacity of a bottle is generally 120ml, 160ml, 200ml and 240ml. Just choose the smallest 120ml for the newborn. As the baby grows up, it can be changed into a large-capacity bottle according to the baby's milk quantity.

Step 4 look at nipples

The nipple is an important part of the bottle. It has different materials, different shapes and even different nipple holes.

From the material distinction: there are silica gel and latex, latex belongs to natural rubber, which is elastic, but it will have natural rubber smell and be easy to age. Silica gel is synthetic rubber, harder than latex, less prone to aging and high temperature resistance.

From the shape: there are round and oblate.

There are generally three kinds of nipple holes: S/M/L M/L, in which S (small round hole) is suitable for newborns, M (middle round hole) is suitable for babies from 2 to 4 months, L (large round hole) is suitable for babies over 6 months, and there are Y-shaped holes, which are suitable for babies with adjustable milk quantity.

In a word, you should beware of fakes when buying bottles. If there is any quality problem, it is too dangerous to use it on babies, so it is best to choose a regular store or an officially authorized store to buy it.

How to choose a bottle 2 is, of course, the material first.

Due to the publicity of bisphenol A in PC materials in China in recent years, this bottle has basically disappeared, so it is basically unnecessary to consider it.

Generally speaking, bottle materials are mainly divided into two categories: glass and plastic, and a few brands have silicone and other materials. Plastics can be divided into three categories: PPSU, PES and PP. Simply put, glass is the most stable and safe, but it is easy to wear. Among the three major plastics materials, PPSU is the safest and the highest quality, followed by PES, and finally PP.

Considering that it is for newborns, it is best to choose glass. This is to consider the safety of materials first. It is best to boil and disinfect with boiling water pot in the neonatal period. The glass material is safer. At this time, the baby will not be considered to use the bottle, so the unsafe factors of breaking can be ignored.

Here is a supplementary question about disinfection methods. There are generally two kinds of disinfection of baby products at home, one is sterilizer and the other is boiled water. In terms of disinfection effect, boiling water is definitely more effective, but boiling water is more likely to damage articles, especially all kinds of plastic products. Many people didn't think of this. Isn't water boiling at 100? Even PP material can resist high temperature above 120 degrees. How can I do it well? The temperature of the water is fine, but in the process of boiling, the articles roll up and down with the boiling of the water, and it is easy to touch the four walls of the container, and the temperature of this part far exceeds 100 degrees, which greatly increases the possibility of harmful substances after being scalded. So try not to cook any plastic baby products in a boiling pot unless you put them in the middle of water with chopsticks.

Let's go back to the material of the bottle. After 6-8 months, you can start to try plastic bottles or cups. The plastic material is relatively light, so the baby can drink the cup by himself at this time. The best plastic material is PPSU, followed by PES, and finally PP is selected.

The question of whether flowers are needed on the bottle. Baby products, especially newborns, are as simple as possible, on the one hand, to avoid chemical pollution, on the other hand, it is actually meaningless. Printing is the fault of a famous brand bottle with excessive lead.

Secondly, talk about the design of the bottle.

Many bottles have their own design features, for example, some promotional nipples are designed to be closest to breast milk; Some publicity focuses on avoiding suffocation.

For newborns, preventing asphyxia is an important part. Therefore, when choosing a bottle, try to choose one with choke-proof design, which will be more convenient and safer to use.

No matter what brand of bottle you choose, you must remember to read the instructions carefully after unpacking. It's best to ask friends who have used similar products around you if they have any precautions. For example, a brand bottle mentioned in the description that it should be inverted before feeding, and then fed to the baby after the milk is dripped. If you don't follow this instruction, you may suffocate by directly stuffing the washed bottle to your child.

Good brand bottles have their own design characteristics, which should be considered according to their own needs or habits.

Third, the confusion between pacifiers and breastfeeding.

I think breast milk is the most natural choice for babies, and now the design of baby bottles tries to learn from breast feeding. If it is not a long-term habit, the baby will not refuse breast milk and choose a pacifier without body temperature. On the contrary, many babies who have never been fed with a bottle are more likely to reject the bottle. Therefore, even for babies who are exclusively breast-fed, it is recommended to start breast-feeding with bottles at the age of 2-3 months, because no one is sure when they will be exclusively breast-fed, even if they are prepared in advance.