I need a new bottle warmer...

eyelovemascara

the one that I have is a POS. I have to push the heat button at LEAST 4 times before its warm. Which bottle warmer do you like and why? I'll be using it to heat breastmilk (not formula) in Dr. Brown bottles. I know some of you use a crockpot at night to heat bottles--tell me about this (what size, how long does it take, etc?)

pizzo84

Just a question... what bottle warmer do you have now... I suspect we have the same craptastic warmer...

Ruby_Tuesday

We just put mugs of water in the microwave and then put the bottles in the hot water.

SweetBijou

We have the Dr. Brown's bottle warmer and it has worked great.

omalley

We used the crockpot method.  We had two small crockpots (one upstairs in the bathroom and one downstairs in the kitchen)  We filled them with water and kept the one downstairs on low during the day and then at night we turned that one off and turned the upstairs one on low.

For night time feedings I would bring a cooler bag upstairs with my pre-filled bottles (we used Dr Brown's as well) and when it was feeding time I would drop two bottles into the crockpot and change their diapers.  I would keep the bottles in there for about 3 minutes and they were warm and ready to go. 

The crockpots were a big time saver for us.  I bought them at Walmart and they were pretty inexpensive.

thiswillbe

Ruby_Tuesday:

We just put mugs of water in the microwave and then put the bottles in the hot water.

We did this too, since breast milk heats faster than formula and also because I didn't want to over-"cook" the breast milk.

eyelovemascara

pizzo84:

Just a question... what bottle warmer do you have now... I suspect we have the same craptastic warmer...

 

I have a really ghetto First Years warmer that someone gave me (used) when I was pregnant and I thought "Oh, I'll never use this. I don't need a bottle warmer". BAHAHAHA. Joke is on me. I use that damn thing almost 8 times a day and I hate it more and more each time I use it.

Time to try microwaving mugs of water before I go spend $$ on the dr. brown warmer!

kmb585

Ruby_Tuesday:

We just put mugs of water in the microwave and then put the bottles in the hot water.

This. I gave up on our bottle warmer.

pizzo84

eyelovemascara:

pizzo84:

Just a question... what bottle warmer do you have now... I suspect we have the same craptastic warmer...

 

I have a really ghetto First Years warmer that someone gave me (used) when I was pregnant and I thought "Oh, I'll never use this. I don't need a bottle warmer". BAHAHAHA. Joke is on me. I use that damn thing almost 8 times a day and I hate it more and more each time I use it.

Time to try microwaving mugs of water before I go spend $$ on the dr. brown warmer!

I KNEW IT! I have the same ones... Yes, I  have 2 of these junkers.

missfire

We have the double Baby Chef warmer and like it. You have to fill it with water multiple times a day if you want to keep it on high, though. But with 6 or 8 ounce bottles, formula takes about 10 minutes to heat up on the medium setting, so I'd rather use the high. doing it again, I would try a crockpot first - because then I would have a useful crockpot later.