Paging Dr. Brown- April 27, 2011
The other day I was standing over the kitchen sink once again. I painstakingly washed bottle after bottle. Looking at my countertops it dawned on me….
Dr. Brown owns my ass. Owns it.
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| We wash by hand most often because if we put them in the dishwasher we’d run it with just bottle stuff like twice a day. |
Dr. Brown’s bottles aren’t just bottles. There’s the tubes, the nipples, the caps, and the magic rubber stopper things that mean you will never have a colicky kid. There’s even special little pipe cleaner-like brushes to clean said rubber stoppers. It doesn’t stop there. Oh no. The genius who is Dr. Brown convinced me to buy a Dr. Brown’s thermal tote, a Dr. Brown’s bottle warmer, and a Dr. Brown’s bottle brush to match the little pipe cleaners.
Like all well-meaning new parents I registered for the bottles I heard were the best. (All my friends having 2011 babies are getting Tommy Tippee’s. I feel so “out”.) Fortunately Dr. Brown’s fit on the end of my Medela pump. Unfortunately, I’ve found they leak. Greyson said to me the other day as milk dripped down his hand, “If I ever meet Dr. Brown. I’m gonna punch him in the face!” I said, “How do you know it’s a guy? What if Dr. Brown is a woman? Would you punch her?” He responded, “I’ll punch every Dr. Brown I see!”
Good to know he’s not sexist about it. Good to know she doesn’t have colic. For all this work, she better not get it or Dr. Brown will get a beat down.
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Haha! That is quite the spread of bottles! One of the daycares we toured told us "Don't get the Dr. Brown's – too many parts!" There should be baby books about all the crap that goes along with kids to warn you about stuff like this!
I probably owned at minimum 20 Dr. Brown's, but never had a leak in the year we used them. I do agree that Dr. Brown should be punched for all the freakin' parts. (And somehow I don't think a woman would design a bottle that required so much work to clean. ;)!)
um… I'm not an expert, but I don't think a bottle can keep a baby from having colic. It might keep a baby from having gas, but gas doesn't cause colic.
Dr. Brown uses that colic idea to trick well-meaning parents into buying stuff for their kids. I'd punch him/her in the face for that reason alone!!!
And Charlotte is old enough now you don't need to worry about colic. GO buy the damn Gerber bottles. They're cheap, yo.
We started Will with Dr. Brown's and he never spit up but he did have lots of lower gas that would wake him up crying. When Will was about Charlotte's age, we switched to the Medela bottles and never looked back. All you clean is a bottle and a nipple.
I'm using Dr. Brown's with John right now and every time I wash them I'm asking myself why. In fact, I might try the other bottle to see if Dr. Browns really makes him less gassy. I somehow doubt it.
Your husby is hilarious! We used nearly every brand 3 years ago with Sebastian except Dr. Browns (hadn't heard of them) & Playtex (he hated them). But Gigi? She's picky. We tried all of our old bottles, she refused them. We bought new Breastflow bottles, they leaked. Then we tried the new Tommee Tippee bottles. LOVE. But my goodness the bottle warmer is $40! Our Munchkin one was only $15! We just warm them up in a bowl of warm water. Or unfreeze the milk then pour it into a bottle.
Stupid Dr. Brown. We use those too. We used them for our first son because he spit up a lot. Then with #2 I bought a bunch of Evenflo Glass bottles that were so nice, but they don't vent so I bought like 7 different bottles, and guess which ones baby liked best? Flippin' Dr. Brown again! I can't wait to be done with them.