Hazeline is over a year old, but she’s yet to show the sippy cup any love, so it appears that we are stuck with bottles for a while longer. [Insert heavy groan here.] It’s not that I want her off of the bottle. Actually, quite the opposite, I kinda like that she still loves her bottles. It reminds me that she’s still the little one and that she has so much growing left to do. Maybe it’s my way to keep her a baby just a little while longer. But cleaning and constructing them are a bit of a pain.
Hazeline’s bottles consist of six parts, including the cap. That’s a ton of cleaning. I’ve bought dishwasher racks and done everything I can to make it easy, but still, it’s a ton of work. It’s also a ton of parts…that often get lost. Toddler hands find them on the bottle shelf and carry them all over, meaning I find them in weird places in my house and don’t have them when I need them. Such a pain. But all those little parts are supposed to reduce discomfort and gas for the baby, so how could I not put up with them? And all the bottles I’ve tried that have fewer parts tend to leak. I really felt that there was no other option, but it turns out, there is – Evenflo Bebek.
A collection of bottles, nipples, training cups, and pacifiers, the Evenflo Bebek is specially designed to be more like mom. The wide nipple intended to ease transition from breast to bottle, and provides an easier latch for newborns. The rapid venting nipples are made to vent air into the bottle and not into baby’s stomach, which reduces gas, fussiness, and colic. By taking these precautions, feeding will be a stress-free, pain-free experience, allowing time to connect. We were lucky enough to get a chance to try these bottles, and can’t say enough good things about them.
Hazeline really likes the curved design, which is funny, because when I first saw the bottle, I didn’t give it much thought. Turns out, it gives her a better grip. She also likes the size of the bottle. We received 5 oz bottles for the purpose of this review, and it was the perfect size for her two afternoon bottles. The smaller size means that she can easily hold and carry the bottle, whereas she will sometimes get a little lazy with 8 oz bottles. I would have loved to have a 5 oz bottle when my girls were newborns, it seemed that they always needed more than 4 oz but less than 6 oz. The 5 oz is just perfect.
I like that the nipple and vent is one piece. Fewer parts means less cleaning and less of a chance of finding random bottle parts in strange places throughout my house. Construction of the bottle is quick and easy (’cause Hazeline may be patient, but she’s not going to wait long for a bottle), and they are dishwasher safe. They just so happen to fit perfectly in the dishwasher racks I already have. Most importantly, I love that these bottles were completely leak free. Not so much as a drop has escaped in the entire time we’ve used them.
The only problem that we had with this bottle was that Hazeline is somewhere between the two nipple levels that we tried. She isn’t quite ready for the fast flow nipple, but the slow flow nipple was too slow. This resulted in her lifting the bottles and taking small sips instead of drinking consistently. Surely there is another level between the two, we just need to go shopping and find it.
I highly recommend these bottles and will definitely be holding on to them for when we (eventually) have baby #3. To learn more about these bottles, check out the Evenflo Bebek web page.
This review was made possible by Mom Spark Media. Thoughts are my own.
