Anti-colic bottles are manufactured and adapted to allow food artificially and in the most natural way. They have an advantage over other bottles and that is that they are designed to avoid the dreaded colic that may occur, after milk intake.
Infant colic can affect almost a 20% of newborns. The presence of gases inside your tummy can be alleviated with this type of anti-colic baby bottles. I do not want to specify that bottles are the best alternative, since, if you are breastfeeding, this will always be the best way to feed it. Due to various circumstances, if you are not formalizing breastfeeding through the breast, you will have to know that there are these types of products.
Anti-colic bottles, are they a good option?
Of course, any option that may lead to an improvement, it will always be a good alternative. There are mothers who choose to discover the benefits of this product and find little improvement. Honestly, it may not solve 100% an optimal result, but can mitigate these symptoms to some extent.
Anti-colic bottles have an adapted design so that it jointly enables, both the air inlet and the milk outlet during the entire feeding. In this way the baby can suck at the speed he wants without risk of introducing a lot of air into his stomach. They are advisable for mitigate reflux, possible vomiting and gas that can cause these colic.
The type of bottle will be the one that you adapt to your needs. You have to include the kind of nipple or anti-colic valve so that the suction is the most favorable. It includes inside a system that prevents the baby suck in air and create colic.
With these bottles milk comes out much more easily, mimicking the way it would be expressed during breastfeeding. Another of its advantages is that it prevents the air from coming into contact with the food, so reduces the possible oxidation of its nutrients.
Among other advantages we can include that with this system avoid pain in your ears. Its mechanism avoids negative pressure, where the baby does not have to suck forcefully, so his ears do not end up plugging.
What can be its disadvantages?
How one of the disadvantages can I include that even buying the best anti-colic bottles on the market, fatal gases cannot be mitigated. There is a great variety in the markets and many mothers choose to buy the highest ones, so they can even give the same results as a similar one, being even lower in price, ... but that is to the consumer's taste.
At the time of preparing the milk it is convenient mix with the formula milk before closing the bottle. We usually put the ingredients into the bottle, close and shake, but in this case a vacuum and negative pressure are created. The very powder that we use to prepare milk can plug the air passage mechanism to the bottom.
With the densest and thickest mixes the shot gets much heavieras it does not flow freely as if it were liquid milk. These bottles are designed to feed babies from 0 to 3 months, since they are the ones who usually suffer from this type of colic.
Its cleaning can be very bad, since its anti-backflow mechanism requires several pieces that when disassembling and cleaning can take us much longer than with a regular bottle.