Don't mess with the 2-4oz bottles. You will only use them a short while. These are supposed to limit upset stomachs.

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Product Description

Dr. Brown's bottles feature a patented internal vent which reduces air bubbles and helps to prevent fluid in your baby's ears. Bottles are compatible with breast feeding, and they help colicky babies settle down and sleep. They also reduce colic, spit-up, burping and gas and are easy to clean. Dishwasher safe. Includes three 8 oz. Wide Neck baby bottles.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4161 in Baby Product
• Size: 8 ounce
• Brand: Dr. Brown's
• Model: 475
• Released on: 2006-09-22
• Dimensions: 8.70" h x 8.10" w x 2.70" l, .77 pounds

Features

• Helps colicky babies settle down / sleep
• Reduces colic, spit-up, burping and gas
• Helps prevent fluid in the ear / No vacuum
• Easy to clean, Dishwasher safe
• Recommended Age Range 0 & up

From the Manufacturer
Created by a physican, Dr. Brown's Natural Flow baby botles feature a patented internal vent system that helps reduce colic, spit-up, burping and gas. The positive presure design allows babies to feed comfortably, because the vent system eliminates the air bubbles and vacuum. All parts are dishwasher safe. Includes 3-8oz wide-neck bottles, 3-Level One silicone nipples, 3-2 piece patented internal vents, instructions and a stainless steel cleaning brush.

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Customer Reviews

best bottles ever!
When my son was born, we tried sampling bottles from several different manufacturers, including Evenflo, Triflow, Avent, etc. Dr Brown's bottles really are the best in preventing gas, bottle leakage, and flow problems. We ended up throwing all other bottles away. I had read other reviews about the small parts being difficult to wash, but I don't really have a problem with that. We don't have a dishwasher and I end up hand washing everything. Each set of bottles comes with a tiny brush for getting into the small spaces for the inner parts to the bottles; and a regular bottle brush works fine with the bottles themselves. I can wash and fill 9 bottles in under 20 minutes (perfect timing when putting my son down for a nap). As to some reviewers complaints about leakage, it's true that if the inner tube gets full sometimes the milk can leak out the top - but this has only happened rarely and I've found that if I unscrew the cap and pull out the inner tube then put the tube back in (basically reassembling the bottle), the problem is resolved. The adjustment takes less than a minute and like I said, I've only had it happen once or twice. Otherwise the bottles, nipples and all the parts are really durable - especially the nipples. When we first bought the bottles, we bought all these replacement nipples in level 1 and ended up returning them because we never needed them. So, my only suggestions are
1. hold off on buying extra nipples to see if you really need them (or at least don't open the package until you need to) and
2. to bypass getting 4 oz bottles and go right for the 8 oz bottles. We started off with the 4 oz bottles and now, at 3 months old, our son is already up to 6 oz at a feeding. So, we had to pack away the 4oz bottles and go out and buy a bunch of the larger size.

SAVE YOUR $ I TRIED ALL THE OTHER BRANDS
I am on baby boy #2 and I wish I had these from day one with #1. No more balled up babies clinching anything due to tummie pain. Worth the money!!! Avent, Evenflo, Gerber, Playtex all have nothing going for them... Go ahead pay for something that actually does what it claims and throw the gas drops out the door!!! You will be amazed at the change in your little one... The word colic wouldn't exist if everyone used these!
We are a one income family & money is tight but this makes for a happier mommie and daddy when baby is not in pain and sleeps better! Just buy three like we did and clean and rotate them out. We keep a bowl by the sink and clean all the parts.. Bought a Avent microwave sterilizer off of ebay we sterilize the parts. It's so worth the extra time... Think about your worse gas pains... your poor baby is suffering cause you can't save a buck here and there and get the good bottles...ask grandma...:-)

Buy the narrow neck one
I love the Dr. Brown bottles. I just want to recommend you to get the regular bottle rather than the wide neck one.

To save time, we got the wide-neck bottle in thinking that it could be cleaned better in dishwasher than the standard longer 8-oz Dr. Brown bottles. But I found my son has a hard time with the wide-neck's nipple. I guess some baby may like the very long nipple shape. But my son found it confusing because he tried to put the whole thing in his mouth as he did to other bottles, but his mouth was too small for the big part. (When we tried Avent's bottle earlier, he had no problem with it. But there are bubbles with Avent's bottle. So I don't recommend Avent.) Therefore, it would take him a longer time to drink the milk with the wide neck bottle than from the standard shaped one.

The other reason I recommend the standard shape is because it is "standard" shaped, you can use other brand's accessories on them directly. For example, I attached my Medela breast pump directly on the Dr. Brown bottle to wash one fewer bottle. I also found a more convenient way to mix formular rather than using the little plastic piece came along in the package --When I was released from the hospital, I got some Similac breastmilk storage bottle. I simply use those Similac bottle cap for the standard-shaped Dr. Brown bottle to make my formula. I lost all these "perks" with the wide-neck set.

For the above reasons, I quickly abandoned the wide-neck set, and purchased another set of the standard shaped 8oz bottle, and am still very happy with those bottles, and would recommend those with no hesitation.