Best Feeding Bottles UK

Nearly every option here claims to reduce colic, but the mechanism used to do it is what actually separates them. Dr Brown's Options+ (£11) uses an internal vent tube — widely considered the most thorough anti-colic system of the bottles here — removable once your baby no longer needs it, at the cost of more parts to wash each time. MAM's Easy Start (£19.99) takes a simpler vented-base approach and self-sterilises in the microwave in around three minutes, useful if you're short on kit.

Tommee Tippee's Closer to Nature (£10.99, our highest-scored and cheapest bottle here) and Philips Avent's Natural Response both use a breast-like teat shape to ease switching between breast and bottle — the Tommee Tippee with a simple two-part clean and small anti-colic valve, the Avent with a teat designed to need active sucking so your baby controls the flow, similar to breastfeeding effort.

Comotomo's Natural Feel (£24.99, the priciest) is built differently again — the whole bottle is squeezable silicone with dual anti-colic vents in the base, aimed at feeling closer to breast in the hand and mouth. NUK's First Choice Plus (£20.99) is the simplest single-vent design of the six, with a temperature-control strip that changes colour if the milk's too hot as its main point of difference.