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 - Nipple sucks!!!These bottles sucks! The nipple keeps collasping after every 5 sucks... I keep having to interrupt my baby's feeding after every 5 sucks to fix the nipple... Rating:  - Excellent bottles, nipples not so muchExcellent, safe alternative to plastic bottles. I do not like that they come with slow flow nipple for newborns since these bottles are most likely to be used with older babies due the size of the bottles. Rating:  - Not the best for pumpingI use a ghetto-rigged method to allow me to pump hands-free without shelling out the $$$ for a hands-free bra... I loop pony tail holders over my bra straps and then around the horns of my pump. I find that these bottles are too heavy to use this method. They might be OK with a real hands-free bra... maybe one of these days I will buy one and see. :-) (These do fwiw screw onto my medela pump - so if hands-free is not an issue or you have a real hands-free bra, these may work well for you) Another problem with these, though, is if you store breast milk in glass bottles for less then 24 hours, certain components of the milk adhere to the glass and won't be released to the baby. They will un-stick after 24 hours - so if you use these to store milk, you will need to use that milk after 24 hours. So these bottles are ok as far as functionality - the nipples work OK for our babies and they are cheap, sturdy, not easy to break - but I prefer the plastic ones (Evenflo and Gerber both make a BPA free plastic version very similar to this) We got these with silicon nipples, not latex - they are available! It's a boring looking skinny nipple but seems to be my babies' favorite - we tried some pricier bottles as well as different nipples for these, but the nipples these came with work best for us. Rating:  - Best bottles for newborns!Love that they are made of glass - tried the Born Free for the Bisphenol-A free plastic, but they dripped all over the place. Love that the nipple truly is slow flow. And really love the price! Rating: - Great bottles that really don't have plasticI have now used these bottles with 2 children (the first time 17 years ago and am using them again with my 5 month old) and they work wonderfully. I recently decided to buy the Dr. Brown's because I had heard that the venting system was great. What I found, however, is that Dr. Brown's glass bottles use a plastic straw made from potentially hazardous materials so we returned those right away. Evenflo glass bottles are easy to clean with no small peices that require special cleaning tools. They also don't get scratched up like plastic. They are sturdy (we dropped one and it rolled under the car without breaking.) I do not use the standard nipples because I have always preferred Gerber Nuk but the batch of these I ordered did come with silicone nipples.
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