Your baby will dictate the brand for you. Our girl would only take MAM dummies and bottles and wouldn't entertain any other brand. A couple of dummies per stage is fine, we upped to lots more dummies when she moved to her own room and cot so she could find a dummy when she woke up x
I just got a mam bottle set with 1 in, I plan on just seeing what they like when they are born as if they like that one I will get more. I had siblings that hated dummies etc so every baby will differ x
I’m pregnant with my first and have bought small packs from a few brands. I have the mam one that came free with the boots parenting club bottle, a bibs starter pack and a small pack of tommee tippee xx
Not sure what's "best" but we used MAM with my daughter and plan to use the same with my newborn We have 4 Dummies in each stage in case we lost any along the way. Or dropped them x