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Perfect for storing-- freezer or fridge!

by Shannon Leckey 2008-09-30

I love these, they are the perfect storage containers for me.

The shape means they are easy to have lined up in the fridge, standing, OR easy to have stacked in bulk in the freezer!

The long thin shape also makes it faster & easier to defrost or warm up because so much of the milk is exposed to the sides-- just drop a container into a drinking glass and run water on it.

It's perfect meal size, just under 3 oz per bottle. So no measuring out milk for every meal into a new container, then pouring it into a bottle to drink. Just warm up, and pour into bottle.

If you are a medela user, you can actually put a medela nipple directly onto this as well. (I dont do that because I prefer adiri bottles for actual feeding, slower flow).

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Very bad smell

by A new Mom 2008-09-29

The tubes have very very bad and strong plastic smell. Even after I washed the tubes and boiled them with hot water again, the smell was still very strong. The other plastic products from medela do not have the same smell. For the babies' safty, I do NOT recommend the product to anyone.

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New Mom

by New Mom 2008-08-01

The Medela breastmilk containers are really convenient! I use them to carry pre-measured powdered formula in my diaper bag for on the go bottles and also for pumping when I know that I'm not going to get much milk (like right after nursing). I really like that they come pre-sterilized so I don't have to boil them before using. Great little back-up containers!

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great little containers

by margaret gerfelder 2008-03-10

These things work great. I take them to work, fill them up and bring them home. They also work great with the playtex bottle system. I can just screw my playtex bottle nipple on to these medela containers (actually, this works with any of the medela containers). I don't have to pour anything back and forth. For day care, I just send them a nipple and a couple of defrosted medela containers, and that's it! No fuss! No need to "make" the bottles.

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Great, but need to be bigger

by EGS 2007-12-23

I agree with other reviewers that it would be MUCH better if these bottles were bigger. If I'm puming after a feeding or something they're fine, but if I'm pumping in place of a feeding, I generally pump about 6 oz which is just enough that the bottles won't hold it all, but also enough that if I try to switch bottles I wind up with two bottles that only have a quarter z or so each in them. It's annoying. And maybe I'm missing something, but it doesn't seem like you can buy the larger collection bottles separately - you either have to get them with a kit, or with a feeding and storage set, either way you're paying for additional parts you don't need. The plusses though are these things come pre-sterilized and the small size has some advantages - topping off a newborn who only needs an ounce or two, or pre-measuring a couple of ounces of breastmilk to mix with cereal, for example.