If you breastfeed exclusively up to one year, you will never need to familiarise yourself with the joy of bottle cleaning, sterilising and such like. Lucky you!
However, most people do at some point, need to use bottles, even if they never use formula milk. Whether it's for feeds from expressed milk, or a crossover time when they return to work, or when they are getting their one-year-old into the milk-drinking habit but their child hasn't quite mastered using a cup yet, bottles are almost always a feature of a new parents' kitchen.
JoJo Maman Bebe products

If you're still wondering what kind of bottle will be best for your family, check out the ThinkBaby Buyer's Guide to Feeding Bottles. In the meantime, we thought we'd highlight some of our favourite feeding accessories currently available online from Jojo Maman Bebe.

If you're looking for feeders that look and feel a little more 'breast' than bottle, Jojo Maman Bebe sell two of the funkiest alternatives on the market.
The Breast Bottle is the nearest we've seen to looking like a work of art! At £21 (7 floz, 200ml size), it's not a cheap option, and you might not fit quite so many into a steriliser at a time as you would with NUK, Avent and the like, but it's soft feel and comforting shape is designed to help the transition from breast to bottle. It's low-flow 'nipple' is adjustable as your baby gets more used to bottle feeding, and, despite it's shape, it is quite easy to keep clean (and is dishwasher safe).
If you like the booby-style but not the stylish price tag of the Breast Bottle, how about the Closer to Nature bottles at £9 for a three-pack? The bottles are 9 floz, 260ml size and have a wide neck to evoke the shape of the breast. The silicone teat is designed to soften and be more supple when the liquid is tipped up, so it recreates the suckling experience for a baby who is used to breastfeeding.
In terms of accessories, apart from choosing your sterliser, you also have to think about those other details than will make the daily routine of preparing bottles safely and cleanly, less painful. You won't believe how much you will come to love the right brush to thoroughly clean those milk-filled teats! We love the Bottle and Teat Scrubber (£6) which can get into all those little spaces for you.
In our house, we always survived on leaving bottles etc out to dry on pieces of kitchen towel, but a nifty little thing to put on your gift list, is the Bottle Drying Rack which is like a dinky mug tree for teats, bottles and rings, £8.
Happy washing, rinsing and feeding!