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Baby Bottles: Ratings of Sources
Total of 18 Sources

For an explanation of how we rank reviews, see our ratings criteria page.

1. Amazon.com
As of Sept. 2009
Bottles
by Contributors to Amazon.com
4 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment Amazon carries a good selection of baby bottles, many of which have a large number of useful reviews from parents. While one or two user reviews for a given bottle are less helpful, larger numbers of reviews are useful because patterns begin to emerge. For baby bottles, we found that large numbers of user reviews were ultimately more helpful than cursory recommendations from other sources.
2. ToysRUs.com
As of Sept. 2009
Baby Bottles
by Contributors to ToysRUs.com
4 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment

The Toys "R" Us website is similar to Amazon.com, with reviews for the many baby bottles available through Babies "R" Us. Although this site has fewer total reviews, some bottles have more posts here.… Unfortunately, the website as a whole is more difficult to navigate. To find reviews, you first have to click on a specific model, then click again to read reviews, ultimately making for cumbersome reading.

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3. Viewpoints.com
As of Sept. 2009
Baby Bottles
by Contributors to Viewpoints.com
4 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment Veiwpoints.com is a newer site on the review scene, but they've already accumulated a good number of baby-bottle reviews. A few models, including Dr. Brown's Natural Flow, Avent and Playtex Ventaire, get a lot of attention while others have only a few posts each. Entries are easy to navigate, and there's a useful ratings summary for each model.
4. Z Recommends
Feb. 25, 2008
Five Great Bottles By BPA-Free Companies
by Naomi Shapiro
4 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment

Naomi Shapiro is a guest reviewer on ZRecommends.com, a commercial blog that includes product reviews aimed at parents. She has a useful review of five BPA-free bottles: the Adiri Natural Nurser, the Born… Free Plastic Bottle, the Green to Grow Plastic Bottle, the Siliskins Bottle and the thinkbaby Plastic Bottle. Each gets a write-up with details on materials and components, plus some general observations and an overall rating.

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5. ConsumerReports.org
Aug. 2008
Baby Bottles Without Bisphenol A
by Editors of ConsumerReports.org
4 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment ConsumerReports.org has entered the bisphenol A discussion with its own report on BPA-free baby bottles. Editors have tested several bottles to assess whether or not they live up to their claims of being BPA-free. While most ConsumerReports.org articles are available only to subscribers, editors have made this report available for free.
6. Cookie Magazine
Jan. 2008
BPA-Free Baby Bottles and Sippers
by Sarah Engler
4 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment Staffers at Cookie magazine test several BPA-free baby bottles and sippy cups to narrow down the best options for BPA-free feeding. The bottles aren't rated or ranked in an order, but the reviews are informative and objective. It's unclear what standards or methodology were used in testing, and the author doesn't mention if other bottles were included in the review that didn't make the cut.
7. ConsumerReports.org
Oct. 2008
Update on Bisphenol-A
by Editors of ConsumerReports.org
4 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment This brief update reflects findings from the National Toxicology Report that reinforce concerns about BPA. Editors list five bottles included in ConsumerReports.org's testing that offer low levels of bisphenol A.
8. Target.com
As of Sept. 2009
Bottles
by Contributors to Target.com
3 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment Target's website allows readers to post reviews of baby bottles it sells. There are some good individual reviews here, but as with the Babies "R" Us website, finding and reading the reviews takes more clicking around, so the site is ultimately not as helpful as Amazon.com or Viewpoints.com.
9. About.com
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Top 7 Baby Bottles
by Robin Elise Weiss
3 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment

About.com's guide to pregnancy and childbirth, Robin Elise Weiss, ranks her top seven baby bottles. Each bottle gets a short descriptive paragraph, but none of the comments indicate that Weiss tested the… bottles herself or has any personal experience with them. Only the Second Nature Bottles get a longer review. (Note: ConsumerSearch is owned by About.com, but the two don't share an editorial affiliation.)

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10. Diapers.com
As of Sept. 2009
Baby Bottles
by Contributors to Diapers.com
3 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment

Diapers.com is the official online retailer for popular baby and parenting resource site BabyCenter.com. Visitors are able to leave reviews and ratings for baby bottles and other products. Many feeding… products are included in a general search for baby bottles, although it is possible to narrow the search results by the type of bottle, such as glass or plastic, or by bottle sets. Bottles aren't as heavily reviewed on Diapers.com as they are on some other consumer sites, such as Amazon.com or ToysRUs.com.

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11. LilaGuide.com
As of Sept. 2009
Bottles and Nipples
by Contributors to LilaGuide.com
3 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment

LilaGuide.com is a relatively new review site, operated by the same company that runs TheKnot.com and TheBump.com. Despite being a newer website, a few baby bottles have accumulated a fair number of… reviews. LilaGuide.com isn't the easiest to navigate, however. In order to see how many reviews are available for a given product, users have to click through to the individual product page. There are also a number of related feeding products included in the search results, so users must sort through the results to find baby bottles.

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12. Z Recommends
Feb. 21, 2008
The Z Report on BPA In Children's Feeding Products, Third Edition
by Jeremiah McNichols
3 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment ZRecommends.com is a product-review blog by parent reviewers Jennifer and Jeremiah McNichols. Their article on bisphenol A includes a listing of baby-bottle manufacturers and the BPA status of each of their products. They recommend bottles by Born Free, Medela, thinkbaby, Combi, Obentec, Steadyco and Adiri, although the recommendations are for general brands rather than specific bottles.
13. Z Recommends
As of Sept. 2009
The ZRecs Guide to Safer Children's Products -- Bottles
by Editors of ZRecommends.com
3 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment The ZRecs Guide to Safer Children's Products provides ratings for baby bottles made by 29 manufacturers. Ingredients of concern are listed, and a confidence rating for safety is provided for each. The site is difficult to navigate, however, because bottles of only one brand can be viewed at a time.
14. About.com
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Avent Baby Feeding Bottles
by Heather Corley
2 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment

About.com's guide to baby products, Heather Corley, includes a useful review of Avent's baby bottles on this website, and 10 readers weigh in with comments. Reviews are mixed; the Avent bottles receive an… average rating of 2.3 stars out of five, with several reviewers noting that these bottles leak. This review would be more useful if other brands were compared. (Note: ConsumerSearch is owned by About.com, but the two don't share an editorial affiliation.)

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15. Tibesti.com
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Best Eco and Safe Baby Bottles
by Diane MacEachern
2 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment

Diane MacEachern is an author and expert on eco-friendly products. She selects the most environmentally friendly and safe baby bottles in this review on Tibesti.com, although the reviews of individual… products are sparse. It appears as though these bottles were selected based on their eco-friendliness and not on actual performance, but the methodology used in selecting the top picks isn't described.

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16. Epinions.com
As of Sept. 2009
Bottles and Accessories
by Contributors to Epinions.com
2 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment There are some parent-written reviews of baby bottles at Epinions.com, and the review templates are useful in that Epinions specifically asks contributors for both pros and cons. Although there aren't nearly as many reviews here for baby bottles as at Amazon.com, some of the individual reviews go into great depth.
17. Practical Parenting (UK)
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Bottles -- 6 of the Best
by Editors of Practical Parenting
2 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment The U.K.'s Practical Parenting magazine offers general advice on choosing a bottle, along with editors' top six recommendations. Although the reviews here include some product information and quotes from parents, there's no mention of how the bottles were chosen. Some of the models discussed are not available in the U.S.
18. 3Luxe.com
As of Sept. 2009
Baby Bottle Research and Review
by Editors of 3Luxe.com
1 stars Credibility Rating
Our Assessment The idea behind 3Luxe.com is to make three top recommendations in each of a growing list of product categories. While it's an interesting concept, the drawback is that the reviews are not critical. The other issue is that it's not always clear how products are chosen or whether the reviewers have actually done any testing.

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