Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

UPDATE: It's been a few months and this remains the only bottle my baby will accept. I am still mostly happy with it, but I do now have one gripe. After about 6 weeks of using this bottle, we were ready to move her to a faster flow as she was clearly getting frustrated/bored that it took 15-20 minutes to drink a 7 oz bottle. However, the Stage 2 nipple is MUCH faster than stage 1. It moves from 3 holes to 6 holes, which, when you think about it, is obviously going to be too much. Twice as fast is to large of a change for an infant. So for a week or two we had to alternate between Stage 1 and 2 depending on how tired she was. When she was alert and energetic, she could mostly keep up with Stage 2. When she was sleepy she would choke on Stage 2 and dribble all over the place, so we would revert back to Stage 1. It's now been a month since we started making the switch and she's exclusively on Stage 2 with no major issues. She still can't fully keep up with it, so there's a bit more dribbling, but an 8 oz bottle takes her only 5 minutes, which is wonderful. That said, NUK really needs to introduce an intermediate nipple (maybe 4 or 5 holes) to ease the transition. I still love this bottle and recommend it, but it's annoying that this is a seemingly easily solvable/avoidable issue that you think would have been caught during R&D. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I've seen reviews like the one I'm about to write for other bottles, but this was the one that worked for us. This bottle is a miracle. My wife and I were struggling with our baby's transition to daytime bottles following the end of her maternity leave. We knew she could do it because we'd had a little success early on. She just flatly refused beginning at about 3.5 months. For weeks. We tried every bottle out there. Tommee Tippee. Lansinoh mOmma. Comotomo. Munchkin Latch. First Years. Medela, MAM Anti Colic. Dr. Browns. A hands-free baby bottle (Tinukim). We even tried one of those easy feeders for babies born with a cleft lip, since she seemed to be ok with a spoon. All total fails. Until this one. My wife and three year old went away for the weekend so I could do bottle boot camp with the baby one last time. I had four new bottles to try out that weekend, and this is the only one that worked. I think there are three things that made the NUK Simply Natural more appealing to her: 1. The rubber of the nipple is thicker and does not collapse under the pressure of her mouth. Both Comotomo and Tommee Tippee claim to be more like the breast, but the rubber of the nipples is just too thin and soft on both. 2. The nipples have multiple holes instead of just one, making the flow more similar to breast-feeding. (I honestly don't know why more "natural" bottle brands don't do this.) 3. The milk DOES NOT come out of the nipple until she begins to properly suck on it. Many bottles say this is the case, but this is the only one for which it is true AND the baby can still create proper flow once she starts sucking. It's actually a little annoying that it's difficult to test the temperature of the milk (you can't just shake it onto your arm - it will not come out). But that's a very small price to pay. FYI, my daughter was about 5.5 months when we tried this bottle, and is now over 6 months. An age at which many bottle fed babies have moved onto stage 2 nipples. But we're using a stage 1 to keep the flow on the slow side, as we want her to continue to nurse in the evenings and mornings. Thank you, NUK, for creating this bottle!