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It leaks and does not vent well. Wish Advent makes a BPA free bottle.
The only reason we got this is for BPA free. It is complicated with many parts to clean. It does not vent when you screw the nipple on too tight. However if you let it loose, it leaks!!! We think we are pretty good at fixed things, but these are hard to use compare to Advant bottles.
It will take Advent nipples, but it will leaks too. However Advent nipples vents much better. If only Avant makes BPA free bottle, we will swiych back in a second. It did not get one start becasue of the BPA:(

Leaks terribly and includes annoying extra parts
These bottles, which are obviously selling well because of the Bisphenol-A issues, leak like crazy. All you have to do is tip the bottle sideways and the milk comes gushing out like crazy. Makes a huge and annoying sticky mess. My advice, if you must absolutely have these, is to use the Avent nipples on these bottles. They fit and they don't leak at all, even upside-down. The silicone nipple is not implicated in the Bisphenol problems. The Born Free bottles also have a silicone gasket and a plastic insert, making cleaning and filling the bottles very frustrating and unnecessarily complex. I am hoping someone else comes up with a better BSA-free bottle because these are just not working for me.

Nipple collapses all the time!
I just got this bottle because they are BPA free, my son like his milk warm. The problem I have is that the nipples collapse all the time, I use th Y nipple. I love the Avent bottle ant now they have BPA free bottles that you can combine with your old nipples. BornFree nipples are very expensive. I have tried everything and I think Avent is just the best. Dr. Browns are difficult to clean and time consuming to assemble. Avent is simple , nipples never collapse, and those who say that they leak it's because they are not closing it properly. Mine have never leaked. I also was very disappointed because I bought a 9oz three pack and when I got them there was only one vent valve included for 3 bottles. I have a coupon to get the other 2 vent systems for "free". Why would they not include it in the package? I have been at the store to redeem the coupon and they are always out.

Potentially dangerous, and the worst customer service ever!
I happily bought six of these bottles (four from Amazon and two from Whole Foods), since i was looking for BPA-free bottles. The bottles morphed into unrecognizable white and crystallized blobs, one after the other (I stopped using them when this happened with the third one). They all started out with a small white mark near the mouth of the bottle, and did the bizarre morphing thing soon afterwards. I had the bottles in the microwave sterilizer with both a Dr. Brown and an Avent bottle, neither one of which had any problems.

I would love to post a photo of the blob because I am convinced that anything that could turn into THAT cannot be good for my baby.

The worst was that I could not get a response from the company. I wrote emails, I spoke to one of their customer service reps, wrote more emails...and nothing came of any of it. I then reported to the Better Business Bureau in their region (Louisiana), which wrote me back several weeks later to say that THEY had not gotten any response from the company either.

My daughter is the most precious thing in the world to me...would I trust her well-being to a company that produces a flawed product and THEN refuses to respond to legitimate concerns, even from the Better Business Bureau? HECK, NO! I would urge everyone to take care before buying this bottle.

Bottles are fine once you get used to all the parts
We bought the Born Free bottles because they were the only wide nipple, BPA FREE bottles available at the time. Our son ajusted well to the new nipples (he had been using Avent nipples for about 8 months). In fact, he seemed to like them better. The bottle itself isn't too bad if you are just putting breast milk in it, but you have to be careful if you are mixing formula in the bottle. There is a slit in the air vent that gets blocked every so often even when you mix the formula side to side. Once the vent is blocked no air is allowed in the bottle and it interupts drinking which is very annoying--especially when you are trying to get your baby to sleep!