Nipples

These come in 3 different sizes: 0-3 months, 3-6 months and 6+ months. The difference seems to be the size of the hole and how fast the milk pours out. I’m not sure how that applies to age: Even the slowest holed nipple he seems to chug down in a couple of minutes! Anyway, you’ll end up with way more than you need, since most bottles come with them, so don’t be tempted to buy too many. Also, Target has the uncanny ability to have every size in stock EXCEPT the size you are looking for. This is true whether you are buying them for your own baby or for a gift. I’m not making this up, I’m 0 for 3 at the Coral Ridge Target.
Once you have them, you will need to wash them. You might have one of those dishwasher baskets. Don’t know what that is? Neither did I, luckily the person that gave me theirs put a note in it explaining what to use it for. You put little bottle-related items in it in the dishwasher so that they can fly around but stay in the basket. So nipples don’t get very clean in those, which didn’t surprise me, since you need to get up in the narrow area to get it clean. Yes, you will have to handwash them. At first I had fun taking them out of a sink full of hot soapy water and pushing the water out with my finger, watching that nipple hole squirt out like a squirt gun! Also fun if you point it at a dog or cat nearby. (Yes, this is how parents of infants have fun….) But they looked rather cloudy afterward. My husband discovered a much more efficient way to get them clean, and this is what we have stood by ever since: wipe off the outside, then flip it inside out (this takes some practice) and wash that well, then flip it back! Clear and cloudless nipples!