• Easy to clean
• BPA free
• Bottle brush gets in hard to reach places

• Bottles sometimes leaked
  

I got the Avent bottle gift set as a baby shower gift and the bottles where perfect for our boys. We didn’t use the bottle sterilizer at all but the bottle brush was great for cleaning and we actually would boil the bottles and nipples every week or so. These Avent bottles are built to last and last they did, we used them from newborn all the way to one years old at which time we weaned the boys off formula. The newborn nipples where great too they required the perfect amount of sucking needed for the boys to drink the bottle and not have to work too hard. At about 4 months old we started giving the boys rice cereal bottles in the evening to help them sleep better through the night and we had to poke extra holes in the (#2) nipples for them to be able to suck the formula out. The bottles seem really wide in comparison to some others on the market but my sons where able to hold on to them at about 5 months. Because the bottles are wide it makes it easier to clean them out with the bottle brush. We purchased three of these bottle brushes over a period of one year and I have twins so they do last a good amount of time. The bottle brush also has a pointy part on the handle that was great for getting down into the hard to reach nipple tips. The one thing about these bottles and I don’t know if it was a Daddy error or the bottles but they would leak from time to time. Sometimes we would screw the bottle top on, shake it and formula would leak out a little bit. If the bottle leaked we would unscrew it and put it back on and that usually fixed the leak. Sometimes during nigh time feedings when it was dark we would get a little frustrated with the leaky bottles but it wasn’t often this happened and to be honest I would use these bottles again. We tried other bottles, with bags and elbow shaped bottles and our boys seemed to like these the best. Our boys didn’t seem to get too much air with these bottles which was very nice and I say this because it would take a lot to get a burp out of them after they finished a bottle. Sorry that I can’t say more about the sterilizer but my wife preferred to boil the bottles frequently rather then use the sterilizer. Buy it on Amazon.com Philips Avent Essentials Gift Set with Sterilizer, BPA Free