Hip Random Reviews: Weil Baby Bottles and Sipper Cups Galore!
We recently gave three hip mums the task of road testing drinking products from the WeilBaby range. We had an overwhelming response to this call out. With many of you discussing babies whom did and didn’t drink from bottles to the trials and tribulations of changing from bottles to sipper cups. So hopefully these three reviews will help with the often overwhelming land of bottles and sipper cups (all BPA free of course!)!
Check out three different Mum’s opinions of different products from the range.
Hip Mum Melanie tried out the Weil Baby 8oz glass nursing bottle.
As a first time mother I was a little shocked/overwhelmed and not to mention exhausted when at 6 weeks old my son developed bad colic and would not stop crying/screaming all day long. This went on for seven weeks - my husband and i tried everything - spent endless amounts of money of different ‘colic’ bottles but none of them seemed better than others and help reduce the pain that he was in.
My son - Kyden is now 16 weeks old and has gotten over the worst of the colic but still gets little gas bubbles stuck in his tummy between his feeds and will wake after 40 minutes (during his day sleeps) with gas build up (he has always been an excellent night sleeper - we are lucky in that aspect)
So when i was given the chance to road test the Dr Weil’s bottle i was more than happy to do so to see if this was actually a bottle that would help him or that i would use for future children.
Kyden and i got to road test the 8oz glass baby bottle and the silicon holder.
Generally we found the bottle to be great - it took Kyden a few goes to get used to using a different bottle but he now loves it. The milk/formula flows a lot slower than other bottles so it took him longer to drink but it did help with the gas bubbles he was getting with all the other bottles and after a few days using this bottle he had a lot less gas build up between feeds. In fact his sleeping during the day increased from 40 minutes to 75 minutes and once or twice two hours!!!!
The bottles are a very trendy design, easy to clean, dishwasher safe (on top shelf) and nice and sturdy. Kyden also loved to hold the bottle while feeding which he has never done with other bottles so he must have loved drinking from it.
The only downside i found to the bottle that being glass it was a bit harder to heat up the formula/milk. With the avent bottles i could take them straight out the fridge and put them in boiling water to warm up but being glass i could not do this. Instead i had to run under water to heat it up slowly so the glass did not crack.
The silicon holder is good idea but make sure you wet it before trying to get it on the bottle.
Overall i found the bottle and the silicon holder excellent and would definitely use them for our next child to he prevent/help colic!!! I will definitely be going out to buy the Dr Weil’s sippy cups for Kyden for when he is older - once again they are so trendy and great as they come in lots of colours!!!!
Hip Mum Eugenie struck a cord with us when she said her babe wouldn’t take any of the many bottles she had tried (and she had tried a lot!!) so we thought she and her super cute babe were the perfect random review choice to try the Weil Baby 5oz Tritan bottle. Check out the great results below!
This is Luella now six months old. Adorable - yes, fun and happy - yes, relentlessly stubborn - always! Together we’ve been trying various bottles and teats each day over the last couple of months. Having only ever received varying degrees of resistance (rated by type and duration of tears provided), I wasn’t particularly hopeful when I entered a recent competition to receive the latest bottle available at The Hip Infant, the Weil Baby. Perhaps it was my renewed hope (having never won anything in my life) that made the difference to our typically exhausting and uninteresting 4pm bottle feed attempts. Perhaps it was because she’s getting a little older and the process was inevitable. Perhaps it was the bottle. All I can say is that I am a changed woman. Luella took 40ml straight away on the first day. After a couple of cartwheels, I persevered and she smiled, laughed and openly engaged with the bottle. She nibbled and occasionally sucked, bringing the grand total to 100ml. A minimum she has managed every day since.
A very big thank you to The Hip Infant and Dr Andrew - the Weil Baby bottle is not only the best looking bottle I’ve seen or tried, but it’s also a good size (for the less inclined feeders among us). And, it comes with all the pre-requisites we expect but don’t always get - it’s BPH free and easy to clean!
And finally what better person to try the Weilbaby 120mls training cup in purple and the Weilbaby 240 ml drinking cup yellow than hip mother of twin boys Alex and Jake, Andrea.
As a mother of 15 month old boy twins who are very fussy about their bottles and cups I was interested to see how they would respond to the Weilbaby products. I have tried alot of different training cups with the boys and have found that alot of them either leak, break, have fiddley valves to put in or are very difficult to drink from. I have also found that Jake and Alex will happily drink water from most of them but not milk.
Jake and Alex have put these cups through their paces and I am happy to report that we love the Weilbaby training cups and they are still in one piece. These cups are BPA free and come in a range of bright, trendy colours rather than just clear which I found is particularly useful when trying to remember who was drinking out of which cup. The cups come in two different sizes, are quick and easy to assemble/disassemble with no fiddley valves and have handles which are not only slim line but can be easily removed. The cups are really sturdy, do not stain and have withstood being washed in the dishwasher and dropped or in some instances thrown from the highchair with barely a scratch on them.
Now for the thing I love most about these cups -they don’t leak. No matter how much Jake and Alex shook them they could not get them to leak all over their highchair so they could play in the mess (like all cups they do leak if you squeeze the spout) and I did not have them leak from under the ring at all. Also, a bonus for me is that they will drink their milk from them (Yeah no more bottles!!!!!)
As with any products there are a few cons to Weilbaby cups. They are expensive so they probably wouldn’t suit someone buying for multiples. When the boys were babies they were having up to 14 bottles a day between them so that either makes for a very expensive purchase or alot of washing up throughout the day. However, you pay for what you get, quality.
Also, my husband found when washing the bottles by hand that milk gets stuck in ridge in the bottom of the cup if it isn’t rinsed straight away and the bottle brush we had couldn’t get in the groove to get it out. The only other thing I was wondering was if replacement spouts were available and if there was a hard spout available that you move onto as your child progresses.
Thanks Hip Infant for letting us try out the Weilbaby training cups.
Andrea rest assured there are replacement spouts available!! Thanks to all our hip mums for their honest and valued opinions!
Tags: bottles, BPA Free, sipper cups, Tritan, Weilbaby
Spring has sprung!
When Goldilocks moved rooms to make way for Baby Sister our ‘black and white’ themed spare room turned into a pink and red toddler room! This change mean’t I had to remove a wall decal that had sat above the bed for over two years! I used to walk past it often and remind myself of it’s truth. Guests would always comment too. I felt kind of sad taking it down, so took a photo to preserve it in my mind! Maybe it might ring true with you too.
A couple of people have suggested that Baby Sister once out, is named Little Red Riding Hood. If she is, then surely this should be close by her side!
Goldilocks and I have been enjoying porridge every morning since the weather has been cool (I’ve got the microwave quick oats technique down to a fine art. She has strawberries with hers and I jazz mine up with passionfruit yoghurt, strawberries, banana and LSA). At heart though, I’m a muesli type of girl and in Sydney we’ve had a few warm days lately so I’m already thinking about yummy summer stone fruits chopped over crunchy muesli with cold milk and a dollop of yoghurt!
I salvaged this chair from an ex-boyfriends, parents holiday house over 10 years ago. The house had sold and everything in it was being left or tossed out. This chair used to sit at the front door, pretty out of place in a beach house but there it sat. It was his grandmothers powder room chair and I always loved its shape. Short and stout kinda like ‘I’m a little teapot’. She was quite a special lady too, so it added to the charm. I also liked the idea that one even had a ‘powder room’ chair of her own!
I’ve long been a big fan of the 