Minbie Omdömen 29

My 3 month old has refused bottles consistently. Would scream the house down and get herself worked up and I could never leave her for very long as she couldn’t feed any other way apart from breastfeeding.
I ordered the Minbie bottles and expressed some milk and she took it instantly without any fuss what so ever. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I wish I had bought these bottles sooner!

Leaks so badly. Every time I use this bottle half the milk ends up being wasted. Poor poor design

Terrible customer service and shipping. I ordered a package which never arrived after 4 weeks and had to request a refund instead. I sent numerous emails regarding my package and was responded to once. Really disappointed in the service as my son has used these bottles since he was 2 months and now I have had to move onto another brand.

i bought this few months ago, teats are bad quality.

Didn’t work for us. Baby had tongue tie at birth that was corrected but left him with a shallow latch. He found the teats too long so he was gagging on them as with many other brands. I left a review 3 star review on minbie which wasn’t posted. Seems they only post their 5 star reviews!!

Our baby who is 90% breastfed took to the bottle fine (although started making a ‘tutting’ sound on the breast and bottle from 6 weeks which makes me think there may be some nipple confusion issues). Bottles look great but the downsides are the lids are impossible to put on (they’re asymmetric and unless you line it up perfectly with the asymmetry of the teat it doesn’t go on). Also, style over substance when it comes to the gauge down the side - unless you’re in super bright light and have amazing eyesight it’s VERY difficult to make out how many mls/ozs of milk you have poured

Didn't work for us
Out baby couldn't get in with the bottle

Great design and ease of latch, small tip so easy to get in for baby with tongue tie release. Although flow too fast even with slow flow for one month old son will have to wait till baby older to try again. Only con is price!

My wife and I have used this product for 5 months and feel qualified to make some comments on the products. We purchased the full set of products so can comment on everything.

1. Teats/Lids/cap
The main selling point of Minbie is the teat that is supposed to avoid nipple confusion and on this point we can only conclude it works but the real issue is the cap. If you look at the website you will see the clear cap is asymetric and this causes several problems:
a) If you don't put the cap on properly it kinks the teat or if you have not fully pushed the teat in the housing properly it will push it out.
b) You take the cap off and put on a table (not edge down so as to ensure it stays clean) the asymetric nature will mean it will roll off any flat surface and invariably fall on the floor. Just what you want when you have a hungry baby and are trying to keep the equipment clean.
c) Because the cap is a funny shape it does not block the teat hole and so when you shake a bottle (it doesn't matter which way you do to try and avoid it going up the teat) it leaks out the teat and from under the lid and down your hand making you think the bottle is actually leaking.

2. The thread on the bottles
The bottles have a thread where there are 'cut outs' perpendicular across the thread, now I have no idea why this is there although I am sure there is one but it does have one side effect. This can result in milk escaping down this cut out if the lid is not on vice like tight. However, the big issue is when you put this is a water bottle warmer the water will naturally get near the top of the bottle (if you want to warm up the whole bottle of milk). This finds its way up the cut out and when you pull the bottle out it stays in this cut out, so you dry the bottle off, tilt it to your baby's mouth and the water miraculously is released from the cut out, wetting the baby and you with hot water.

3. Bottle construction
If you look at the bottles on the website they have this very nice gloss coating that looks very good quality. However, after a month of use they are scratched from friction against other bottles and cleaning, this feels like a dirt trap. In addition they have embossed numbers on markers on the bottle rather than printed numbers. This is aesthetically sleek but means that when feeding in low light e.g. a night feed or a feed before bed, makes it impossible to read the levels in the bottle. As our baby has a reflux issue we are trying to pace the flow and so limit intake every 60ml for winding and to let it settle. Now luckily other bottles in the range are more traditional in construction, that sort of dull transparent plastic and printed numbers, and we are able to use these but most of the bottles are of no use but storing expressed breast milk.

Which brings us on to another point. Try pouring expressed breast milk out of these bottles into another bottle, the design results in milk running down the side of the bottles onto the floor or sideboard. Also the white rubber blanks to use on the bottles without a teat seem to leak when you shake the milk (when the EBM has separated) no matter what we do to ensure they are on tight.

4. Steriliser
The steriliser is a good idea and has plenty of space and great drying function but maintenance is made more difficult by some poor decisions in the manufacture. The base of the unit where you put the water is shallow and despite the instructions stating you can put between 80-100 ml of water to sterilise when ours stopped drying properly the company claimed we should only use 60ml in emails we received. Essentially, the machine is designed to handle 80-100ml but then they use that against you if you have an issue. Eventually they sent a new one when the founder appears to have stepped in. This was delivered quickly so brownie points awarded there.

Back to the poor design, the drying fan is house next to where you put the water and the only seal to stop condensation from the steam is a little hinged flap that opens when the fan is on. My concern is that water could drip off the underside of the bottle tray into the fan through the open flap. Cleaning and descaling the steriliser is easy enough but this is one of the times when you will be moving the unit and you should be mindful that the flap for the fan cannot get water anywhere near it which is not easy as with it being so shallow a base a slight movement could sway water quite a bit.

5. Breast pump
This works well and has a very good battery and is well built, you could use this a number of times between a charge. This looks nice and is strong so this is a good product.

I think these things could be improved but must focus on practicality.