First off, the name alone is a little deceptive. This bottle is not packaged in a totally sterile manner. They could improve the safety and sterile aspect if they wrapped each bottle individually with the nipple cap inverted inside of it. They didn't do this in order to save on room. Therefore, once you've handled the packet of nipples, all the nipples will be less than completely sanitary and same with the bottles. This is why an item such as this is more of an emergency use item to be packed in the car, at your mother-in-law's house or in a Church Crying Room than say, packed in your diaper bag.
Another complaint is the size of the bottle and the nipple flow. The bottle is too large for younger infants who are consuming only 2 to 4 ounces at a feeding. These are 9 ounce, single use bottles. Even though there is a bottle cap (nipple guard) included for each bottle, it isn't very secure. The nipples themselves have a large opening which again, is not suitable for younger babies who can't handle that rate of flow. We did try this using rice cereal mixed with formula and it worked pretty well but for formula alone, it will leak like crazy if you cap it for re-use a little later. We did also try them with Playtex nurser plastic inserts and didn't have a problem although it took a little fiddling to get it right the first time.
I would say these are good for babies in the 8 to 12 month range. The entire bottle set-up can be rinsed and put in the recycle bin and it's BPA free. it's a little bit costly but I could see this being useful for Emergency supplies. I live in Earthquake & Brush Fire country so, Im always looking for products to toss in the evacuation package. If they made these in a smaller size, they'd be even more useful.Get more detail about Steribottle Ready to Use Disposable Baby Bottles, 10 Count.
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