by Joyce Slaton posted in Products

Spend some time on the bottle aisle in any drugstore or baby specialty store and you'll soon realize one important fact: bottles are really hard to choose. Here you have your basic confusing product situation -- shelves full of products that look pretty much alike, but each claim to be the very best on the market. And each, you will soon learn, claims to be the most like the breast: the widest nipple, the squishiest bottle, it goes on and on.
The best bottle for your baby is the one you can afford and your baby drinks from. That said, sometimes bottles emerge with cool qualities we want to call out, like these two newbies.

1. Nanobébé Breastmilk Bottles
If you see one of these bottles in the wild (i.e. out of its packaging), you'll probably want to check it out, because of its unique shape. It's domed, and has a depression on the bottom like one you'd see in a wine bottle. Nanobébé claims this makes the bottle easy to hold -- depends on your hands or your baby's hands, probably -- and it also makes the milk easier to thaw, because instead of the milk being in one large clumped-together big icy mass, it's spread out more thinly in the inside of the bottle. Faster thaw = easier for you (and, Nanobébé also says, more vitamins are preserved, which is probably also true but who knows what difference it ultimately makes).
Other Nanobébé upsides: the bottles stack for easy storage and you can pump directly into them. You must buy the N...