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Adiri Natural Nurser Ultimate Bottle Stage 1 White, Slow Flow (0-3 months) | 
| Brand: Adiri
List Price: $12.50
Buy New: $7.79
You Save: $4.71 (38%)
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 461
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 2.6 x 2.6 x 6
MPN: AD1WHT
Model: AD1-1-WHT
UPC: 691984424441
EAN: 0691984424441
ASIN: B000VUN41G
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Safe: BPA and phthalate-free | | • | Soft: Breast like in feel, breast-shaped in design | | • | Simple: Easy to use Fill Twist and FeedTM system | | • | Reduces Colic | | • | MDEA 2008 Award Wiiner |
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Product Description
The Adiri Natural Nurser Ultimate Bottle is 100% polycarbonate-free and bisphenol-A free. It offers high quality materials, a graceful design, and the new Fill, Twist and Feed? system, engineered so that a parent or caregiver can quickly prepare a bottle, even with a hungry infant under one arm. A sleek cover protects the bottle from getting dirty and keeps the nipple from leaking during transport. The Adiri Natural Nurser comes in three stages for three different flow rates. Each stage holds 8 oz. of fluid and is dishwasher safe! 1 Bottle Per Pack. Stage 1 - Ages 0-3 mos., Stage 2 - Ages 3-6 mos., and Stage 3 - Ages 6 mos. and up.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Objective review of the bottle itself (as much as possible!) March 22, 2008
Katherine Tugusheva (Philadelphia, PA United States)
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
I will try to write an objective review of the bottle itself - as much as I can. For that let me start out with the premise: whether or not your baby takes the bottle or not has nothing to do with the quality of the product itself, babies are human beings, though small, and have their likes and dislikes, which will include nipple size, shape, feel of the material the nipple is made from, etc. Since I am reviewing the BOTTLE ITSELF it follows that my baby did eat from it. This was the first bottle I gave my son - I really wanted it to work - and he refused to take a Playtex bottle.
PROS:
1) Of course, their biggest selling point: the bottles are BPA and polycarbonate free. In this day and age when we still do not know what causes developmental disorders like autism, I figure it is better to expose your child to as few chemicals as you can.
2) The material from which it is made is much more life-like and looks more like the real nipples (at least the ones I have!).
3) Compared to other bottles (like Playtex and Avent) the nipple is actually pretty small and it might be more convenient for a small baby to hold and not choke.
CONS:
1) As one reviewer already mentioned, to fill the bottle you have to close it with a lid and invert it to fill from the bottom; the nipple does not close well and would constantly leak, so you have to be very quick about pouring - closing - inverting, and it is DEFINITELY not a one hand operation. Afterwards the spilled contents would drip from the bottle and the inside of the lid would be all dirty. Very annoying.
2) Because of the shape of the bottle and nipple - very small nipple that turns into a wide portion very abruptly - you need a fair amount of access liquid in the bottle for your baby not to start swallowing air. I feed my son with pumped breast milk and I found it very annoying that I had to waste so much of it - at least 1 oz. No matter what they say, when the level of milk gets low those "petals" are absolutely useless.
3) You can not put this bottle into a bottle-warmer and warming up milk in it under running water is impossible: the walls are very thick on the bottom and it takes too long, and if you cover the bottle with a lid - forget about it. I had to warm up milk in a separate container - like a milk storage bag - and then pour it into the bottle.
4) The fact that the small nipple turns into a wide opened bottle so abruptly means that there is no place for a baby to establish a good vacuum seal for suction. My son kept making "kissing" noises when he ate, a tell-tale sign of air ingestion, and you could see that the corners of his mouth where completely open and unused. This design is not natural, actually, since babies are supposed to take in a large portion of areola as well as the nipple, which causes the nipple to elongate and form more of a cone shape.
5) Probably due to the problem mentioned in point 4 above and the fact that this silicone is very soft, I discovered that this material is not very durable. After about a week of using the bottle (I bought only one to try out) one morning as I was trying to fill it with milk I noticed a residue around the nipple where the wide portion of the bottle starts. At first I thought that I did not wash it well, so I started to scrub the bottle again - residue did not come off. After looking at the bottle closer I realized that it was frayed silicone!!! My 3.5-week-old son - read toothless - started rubbing through the bottle with his gums! At this price for each bottle if I had to get a new one after each week...well need I say more.
I am very grateful to this bottle for being a transition from breast, but one week and 1.5 days is all it took to give it up. One afternoon as I was feeding my son he kept constantly loosing suction on the nipple and would start rooting in frustration to grab it again (even though when we started using this bottle he also fell asleep when feeding, just like with the breast). After a while both of us got tired and annoyed, he started crying and I went and got the Playtex bottle with disposable liners (also chemical free, by the way!!!), which he has refused to take initially. I poured the milk from Adiri into this Playtex bottle and we have been happy ever since!!! I use a Playtex pump, so I can pump directly into these liners and store the milk in them, warming up takes less than 1 minute under running water - very useful in the middle of the night- and my baby seems to be more comfortable and he is ingesting MUCH less air.
In short, the bottle has MANY design flaws, but who knows what your baby will like and how well this bottle will fit with his/her feeding style (especially if your baby refuses to take any other bottle). It is worth trying it out, but buy one bottle and see how it goes. Good luck!!!!!!!
 Only bottle my 5 month old will take January 10, 2008
Elizabeth Gentile (Seattle, WA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
After 5 months of exclusive breastfeeding, it was time for mom (me) to go back to work, and baby to start bottle feeding. We tried every bottle we could find (Playtex, Avent, Dr. Browns, Breastflow, Second Nature, Evenflo), and if we were lucky, he'd drink maybe 4 oz over the course of 10 hours, and be ridiculously fussy & hungry by the time mom got home (and proceeded to wake up all throughout the night to eat & make up for the lost milk). I was ready to quit my job. I don't remember where I heard about this bottle, but as soon as I did, I rushed out to buy it at the local Right Start. Baby took it right away! Even fell asleep while feeding, just like when he breastfeeds! Miracle! hallelujah! Wish I could invest in this company...
 Looks Great but did not work for me February 18, 2008
Elena Chu (VA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
My baby is breastfed but since day one Daddy would give her a bottle of expressed breast milk every night when he gets home from work. That was my way of giving him quality time with the baby and part of his bonding time. I felt so connected to my daughter when I breastfeed her that I wanted my husband to experience even just a little piece of that feeling. She always switched between bottle and breast like a champ and she wasn't picky about what types of bottles we used (we received a couple of different brands of bottles from our baby shower). Then out of nowhere, one day, she just refused to take the bottle and screamed and cried profusely. We were in shock and finally understood what the other moms were raging about regarding nipple confusion. It broke my heart to see her screaming in discontent as if crying sadly "why won't you feed me~" and gagging when we tried to put the bottle in her mouth. The Dr. Brown bottles were the first ones to go since they are nothing like the breast. We went out and bought the One Step Ahead Adiri Natural Nurser (Breastbottle Nurser) and The First Years Breastflow Bottles and experimented with both. The Adiri failed miserably and we eventually got our 2.5 months old baby girl to take the Breastflow bottle by also warming the milk. I was glad that my daughter chose the Breastflow bottle because it was much easier to work with. It was nearly impossible for me to fill the Adiri bottles because, unlike other bottles, the bottom unscrews instead of the top. Therefore I had to make sure the bottle cap is on securely before flipping it upside down to fill it with breast milk. (I can't believe their web site boasts that it can be done with one free hand, because I can barely get it not to leak with two.) P.S. If the cap isn't on tightly the milk will start coming out from the nipple which is now upside down as you are trying to fill the bottle. And because the cap closes by pushing up against the silicone bottle and not clicked in like other bottles, it fits snugly against the rubber like surface and is extremely hard to undo. I hated having to pull the cap off after I've finally filled the bottle...also these bottles are tall and you'd really have to have a good sized steam sanitizer in order to fit the bottles and the caps in, I could only fit 2 Adiri bottles and caps at a time in my Philips Avent iQ24 Sterilizer. For $13 a piece they really should be better designed. The bottle looked great (like breast) when I saw it but the nipple is still quite long and I think that's why my baby would gag when I tried this bottle with her. My recommendation to other Moms: try the Breastflow bottle first with warm milk (the milk should be slightly warmer than freshly expressed milk). Hopefully the First Years Breastflow Bottles will work for your baby and you can save your money.
Absolutely WONDERFUL! January 31, 2008
R. Kerr
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
We had tried 4 or 5 different brands of bottles and my son wouldn't take any of them very well. He also is cursed with reflux and most of them made it worse (the Playtex Ventaire, I think, was the only one that didn't). Although these bottles are a bit pricey, they are worth every penny. My son is so much happier now that he is actually eating while I am at work and, thanks to the vent in the bottom, he isn't spitting up nearly as bad as with the other bottles.
my baby did not like it January 11, 2008
R. Webb (Yokosuka, Japan)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I was so excited about this product it being 100% polycarbonate-free and all that, but my baby did not share my excitement. She would take it because i put it in her mouth, but she would cry and turn away. I tried a number of times over a 3 week time frame but she refused. So I had to settle for playtex dropins so far, no problems.
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