Expert: How to find a good baby bottle

CLEVELAND, March 26 (UPI) -- A wide variety of baby bottles are available but no one product is best so parents should go with what works best for babies, a U.S. professor of nursing says.

Donna Dowling of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland generally suggests using the simpler systems.

"The more parts and tiny areas in the components, the harder it will be to clean," Dowling says in a statement.

Bottle and nipple, she says, need to fit the baby's eating style.

"Babies are different and have different styles of sucking, from the slow to the fast eaters," Dowling says.

Baby bottles come with nipples that have slow, medium or fast flows of milk. Dowling suggests trying a slow or medium flow and staying with that if the baby is comfortable.

Give baby a chance to adapt to a new bottle, she suggests, and don't give up if the baby rejects the bottle on the first feeding -- too many changes of bottle/nipple systems can be frustrating for mother and baby as well as costly.

Dowling and nursing student Laura Tycon reviewed research papers provided by the manufacturers about their products.

The study, published in Nursing for Women's Health, concludes the final choice comes down to the mother's and baby's preference.