Closer to Nature bottles product reviews

I went back to work full time when my eldest daughter was only six months old. When she was about four months old I started to train her to drink from a bottle in preparation for having to have the bottle for most of her feeds. I really struggled to find a bottle that she was willing to drink from. A friend gave me a Closer to Nature bottle. My baby happily drank from it and never had another type of bottle again. I found that the bottle worked well in conjunction with breast feeding.

The bottle felt so natural in my hand because of the special shape. My daughter was also able to hold it herself from a young age which meant she could control the flow and take a break when she wanted. It was great how the little formula cannisters could be stored inside each bottle which made it so handy when out or when leaving my baby with someone else.

I did find that the smaller bottle was only used for a short time and soon had to move to the larger size. I would have saved a lot of money if I had just bought the larger size to start with. I did buy the lids so I could use the small bottles for storing baby food and snacks for my toddler.

It was a shame that all the bottles came with a newborn teat. This meant that every time we lost a bottle we not only had to buy a new bottle but new teats as well and ended up with lots of newborn teats that had never been used.

I am so pleased to have found the Closer to Nature bottles for my baby as I had worried that she would never take a bottle. I had been feeling guilty about having to return to work any trying to bottle train her adding to the stress. The Closer to Nature bottles really helped us.

I used this bottle originally with my 1st child. It was the first one I grabbed off the shelf and I never looked back.
My son was able to adapt so quickly to it and we never had any issues with it.
When my 2nd child came along we went right back to this bottle, there was no doubt in our minds that it was the best, and it was such good bang for your buck as we only needed to replace the teats from when my son had used them. The bottles themselves are so sturdy that there was no need for them to be replaced.
This is the bottle that I will recommend to anyone who asks which bottle is best.

I used this brand of bottle for my second daughter and it is definitely the best one on the market, I never had any problems with it as it is was it says, its the closest thing to breast feeding.
These bottles are easy to clean and the smaller ones are great to take on the go. If I do end up having another child, I would definitely use this particular brand and style again. I would and have recommended this bottle to others.

I am a very big fan of the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature range. My first child was exclusively bottlefed and this was by far and away the best bottle of several brands she tried.

The anti-colic valve really made a difference and she easily took to this bottle. It was easy to clean and excellent value for money, particularly given we were then able to use them for our second child.

Our second was breastfed but as he was early and had a few early difficulties we did have to top him up with formula. He took to these bottles well and back to the breast with no issues or confusion at all.

They are now also BPA free which is just another big reason for me to always recommend these as first choice to mums.

I had to breast and bottle feed my son when he was born because he was premature and didn't cope very well with breast feeding exclusively. I was given one of these bottles by another mum in the Neo Natal Unit and I am so thankful! I ended up going and buying another 2 because I was so happy with how he coped with them and how, because of the features (teat etc), we were able to mix feed until he was 15 months old! I would definitely recommend these to any mum!

When my son wasn't gaining weight like he was supposed to, we decided to start doing top up feeds of formula but didn't want him to get too used to the bottle either.
The 'closer to nature' bottle enabled us to give him a bottle when it was needed but was close enough to being breastfed that he didn't seem to notice the difference. Plus it was nice for my partner to be able to feed him, and me to have a break, knowing that breastfeeding wasn't being compromised.
I didn't notice the anti colic valve as making too much of a difference as my son tends to release the teat on his own at regular intervals.
All in all, it's a bottle I would trust either part time or full time.

this bottle is great for breast feeding and formula. this was the only bottle my baby would take and it didnt make her all colicy!
easy to clean and found that the cap when on the run doesnt come lose over time.
would recommend any new mum to use this bottle

With wanting others to occasionally join in with feeding my newborn son, expressing and therefore the occasional bottle-feeding, were to become a semi-regular occurance. Add to that my son's reflux which meant taking Gaviscon mixed with water by bottle... and there was definite need to try and find a decent bottle. Except for one small problem, the "Closer to Nature" bottles turned out to be a pretty darn good choice. The "anti-colic" valve didn't seem to make any difference, and I still found I quite regularly had to stop him from drinking so the teat could "unsquish" and allow air back into the bottle. Other than this, it's a comfortable bottle to hold, easy to wash, holds up well in the freezer to store expressed milk, and my son had no problems in drinking from it, so obviously comfortable to drink from as well (I wasn't going to go THAT far and test that part myself :-P). Being pretty cheap for a decent sturdy bottle, it's most likely that I'll be sticking to this brand of bottle from now on.

The teat on the bottle is good, with the shaping of the breast. At the start of feeding I found that little or no air was going back in to the bottle, so the teat was bending and pushing in, not allowing milk flow. The bottle is also quite large for a baby to hold by themselves. But after a minute, the flow was good and baby was able to suck well on the teat.

A wonderfull product, As it has an anti-colic valve on the side of the teat, which reduces the risks of wind trouble.
It's easy for baby to hold themselves, and has an easy latch-on naturally-shaped teat.
Easy to assemble and clean.