You Review: Mimijumi Breastfeeding Bottles
June 28th 2010 by Dr.MOZ in Bottles and Cups, breastfeeding
Have you ever wondered why baby bottle manufacturers don’t focus more on designing a truly natural bottle? You can find nipples with realistic shapes on the market, but many are stiff and don’t always provide realistic milk flow. Other manufactured nipples have flesh-like
textures, but aren’t shaped anything like a real nipple (on a realistic looking breast base) to offer natural latching.
Choosing the right bottle can be a tricky situation for working mothers who breastfeed when at home, but bottle-feed with their pumped breastmilk during the day. So what’s a working mom to do? You might want to give the beast-like bottle by Mimjumi a try. The advertised features include:
- food-grade silicon nipples with integrated venting
- three different nipple designs with various flow rates (slow/medium/fast)
- bpa-free bottles
- caps designed for easy one-handed snap on/off
- no skid bottoms
I haven’t seen a Mimjumi bottle in person yet, so I thought I’d throw it out there and see if someone in our community of readers had a detailed review to share. Have you used a Mimijumi baby bottle? If so, what where your experiences using the bottle? Did you have more success with one nipple design over another? Thanks for your input parents, your comment might mean the world to a new parent dealing with feeding issues!
Have fun and stay healthy,
June 28th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
But why on earth wouldn’t you do it the good old fashion way, using your own breast. What you need to do is not use this bottles, don’t spend money on them either. Spend time with your kid, he/she needs you.
June 28th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
@ Santiago – I can think of a few reasons why you might not be able to always go the old fashioned route. One being that you are a woman with a job and you occasionally pump. The other, you are a dad…and like all dads were tragically born without breasts.
~ Dr.MOZ
June 29th, 2010 at 12:54 am
LOL! Tragically, yes! It would make it easier on us women, that’s for sure
June 30th, 2010 at 9:37 am
I agree breast milk is the best milk, but for ladies who don’t have sufficient milk, this mimijumi bottle will be useful.
June 30th, 2010 at 10:26 am
Thanks for the comment Franklin. Just to be clear…many babies you see drinking out of bottles are in fact drinking breastmilk. Breast pumps are common tools these days used to stimulate milk supply by new mothers, and as a means for working women to store breastmilk as the baby gets older.
~ Dr.MOZ
July 1st, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Well, I hope they make nipples in other colors for those of us who are not Caucasian. Band Aids could really use an update too from that peachy “flesh” color. Ugh. Major pet peeve of mine, sorry. But the design is indeed cool.
July 4th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
I would only ever breast feed but I do appreciate that other people dont have that luxury especially if there working mums. If they have to work this might be a positive plus for them but its not a choice I would make
Suzy
July 7th, 2010 at 11:22 am
I agree breast milk is the best milk
July 7th, 2010 at 11:27 am
When i try to give mine a bottle, it refuses the bottle completely….so much so that I have completely given up. that bottle is wicked cool.
July 8th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
great idea for alternative but still no one can beat breast feeding
July 12th, 2010 at 7:19 am
It’s been working better than any other system we’ve tried, but it isn’t as magical as some reviewers make it out to be — perhaps because I had to pay for mine?
Isaiah has been breastfed since birth (he’s now 4 months old) and used to take a certain bottle without issue. At about 2 months he vehemently refused and we couldn’t get him to take any artificial nipples — latex or silicone, orthodontic or traditional. The first time Dad tried him with the Mimijumi, he drank 1 ounce right away without fussing. Next was 1.5 ounces, 3 ounces, and finally back to 2. We’re getting there. We’ve noticed a bit of a “design flaw” with the Mimijumi — in order to get the last 1.5 ounces, we have the tip the bottle way up, which he doesn’t like. So better than the rest, but not a miracle.
July 12th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Thanks for the detailed review Lisa! I can see how the angle would make it difficult as the bottle becomes empty. This certainly wouldn’t be a big issue for most parents, but I could see how this might take the Mimijumi out of the running for a brand new mom just beginning to establish her supply.
~ Dr.MOZ
July 14th, 2010 at 4:23 am
One thing i find really funny about this, is the way they have three different nipple designs with various flow rates, because I guess as the flow is different is also the shape, why is this? Because I remember when my first little boy was born, you will tell me that I’m crazy, but it seemed like he got bored of the same nipples sometimes, crazy right?
I kinda miss the old days, nipples and breastfeeding, what a journey!
liked the article!
July 15th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Thank you for the review. I have a boy who is nine month old. And my wife is a teacher. She works hard. So we must use breastfeeding bottle. It is so important for our life. Because the best milk is breast milk.
July 19th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Nice review! I just thought I would add my 2 cents and say that this bottle does not have any major effects on teeth development.
July 30th, 2010 at 1:18 am
Your tips on choosing the right bottle is very useful.
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:12 am
My daughter is 10 weeks old and has been exclusively breastfed since birth. We were required to supplement one day because my milk hadn’t fully come in when she was about a week old and took a bottle during that time. My milk came in a day after that and we stopped supplementation. Since then, we have attempted to reintroduce the bottle so that I could pump and allow another caregiver to feed her. We’ve tried the original bottle and three new bottles, including the one with a latex nipple. She’d take the bottle with the latex nipple the best but always got frustrated because she couldn’t latch onto it easily since the base is not wide like a true breast.
I found the Mimijumi by chance online one day, but was hesitant to buy it due to its higher price point since there’s no guarantee that it would actually work. My husband also refused to buy new bottles considering how much we’d spent with all the others. But, we broke down and bought it since it was offered in a store in our city and we could actually see the product. The look and feel of the nipple most closely mimics the real thing compared to all the others. It was also easiest for our daughter to latch on and we could also see how to help her along. The largest issue we have is that once she gets down to the end of the bottle the milk doesn’t get into the nipple. We find ourselves contorting a little to get the milk into the nipple. Of course, we’re still incredibly happy with the bottle since we’ve had the most success with it and our daughter drinks from it the longest. I’m very happy we have the Mimijumi.