Evenflo Balance+ Bottle has the best record for breastfed babies: 38 of 39 parents said their baby took it, and MAM Easy Start Anti-Colic Bottle comes next at 34 of 35. Dr. Brown's Options+ Anti-Colic Bottle has 13 of 13 and Boon NURSH Bottle has 13 of 13, but each rests on a smaller group. No bottle suits every baby, and Philips Avent Natural Response Bottle has the weakest record here at 17 of 19.
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Share of parents who stated an outcome for bottle refusal. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
Flow and cleaning split parents. 29% of Philips Avent reviews say the flow is too fast or too slow, and 31% of Dr. Brown's reviews and 15% of MAM reviews say the bottle is hard to clean or has many parts.
Praise and complaints are the points parents repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.
Evenflo
Best for babies who take it easily
80% of reviews say the baby took it easily, and 38 of 39 said so outright. Leaks are the complaint, at 10% of reviews.
MAM
Cleaning splits reviewers: 25% call it easy to clean and 15% say it has too many parts. 34 of 35 said their baby took it, and 18% say their baby was less gassy.
Dr. Brown's
Every reviewer who said whether their baby took it said yes, 13 of 13, but the group is small. Leaks come up in 31% of reviews and cleaning complaints in 31%.
Boon
Best for easy cleaning
Cleaning is the draw: 56% of reviews call it easy to clean. 13 of 13 said their baby took it, from a small group, and 19% say it doesn't leak.
No repeated complaints yet.
NUK
83% of reviews say the baby took it easily, and 22 of 23 said so outright. NUK's own site agrees at 9 of 9, which we show but don't count.
No repeated complaints yet.
Philips Avent
It has the weakest record here at 17 of 19. Flow is the complaint, with 29% saying it runs too fast or too slow, though 17% say the flow was just right.
Kiinde
A smaller group weighed in, and 11 of 12 said their baby took it. Flow splits opinions, with 27% praising it and 13% calling it too fast or too slow.
The 7 products ranked here carry 8,369 reviews at Target. We read the newest reviews of each product (up to a thousand per listing), kept the ones that talk about bottle refusal, and counted up to 40 per product, posted between Jan 2015 and Oct 2026.
A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (8 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.
Target also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. We show them on product cards but never count them, because brand-site reviews run more positive than store reviews of the same products.
Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.
We count what parents report. Nothing here is medical or safety advice: for a sick baby, call your pediatrician, and for car seats, a certified child passenger safety technician can check the install.
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Evenflo Balance+ Bottle has the best record (38 of 39), followed by MAM Easy Start Anti-Colic Bottle (34 of 35). Dr. Brown's Options+ Anti-Colic Bottle has 13 of 13 and Boon NURSH Bottle has 13 of 13, both from smaller groups.
Not always. Even Evenflo Balance+ Bottle had 1 of 39 reviewers say their baby refused or struggled. If your baby keeps refusing bottles or isn't feeding well, call your pediatrician or a lactation consultant.
Parents bring it up. 29% of Philips Avent reviews and 13% of Kiinde reviews say the flow is too fast or too slow. On the other side, 10% of Evenflo reviews say the flow was right.
Parents praise Boon NURSH Bottle for cleaning, at 56% of its reviews. 25% of MAM reviews agree, but 15% say it has too many parts.
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