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Advice on heating bottles at night - bottle warmers worth it?

RunnerGirl17RunnerGirl17
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Hi Ladies, 

I'm wondering what you've found to be the best way to heat bottles at night.  I'm considering getting a bottle warmer but haven't been able to find one that can heat two at once.  So, would you recommend getting two bottle warmers?  I've also heard of MOMs just using the standard hot water in a pot since that can heat twice at once (although that also requires running downstairs in the middle of the night).  What would you recommend as the fastest, easiest way to warm two bottles quickly?

Thanks in advance! 

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Re: Advice on heating bottles at night - bottle warmers worth it?

  • Temp159135562506975Temp159135562506975 member

    are you planning to formula feed? If so - i would use room temp water only - and never heat.... this way you don't have to deal with that at all.

    Our boys were both on room temp bottles, but then Gray got reflux and warm bottles helps him eat more - so we do warm his now.  When we are upstairs and making a bottle for him we just get warm water from the tap. When downstairs I just warm water in the microwave, in a glass measuring cup (not in the bottle).

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  • jenn_darrin1515jenn_darrin1515 member
    I second what goldie said if you are planning to formula feed - we use warm water from the tap for the girls bottles...and when we were feeding them through the night we used room temperature prefixed formula and never had a problem...
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  • jasonlovessarajasonlovessara
    For us bottle warmers were the BEST THINGS EVER!  I did BF / pump / then formula.  We made the bottles ahead of time for time savings.  We bought two and it was our sanity saver.  It was so worth it and I wish we had done it sooner
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  • Nikki1007Nikki1007
    When i worked at a day care we had a crock pot plugged in with water in it turned to low all the time. We could heat several bottles at once.
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  • MrstobMrstob
    This is what i plan on doing...i got a microwave safe glass large measuring cup and will fill that with water and microwave it and then place the two bottles in to warm up ...  I have the microwave upstairs in our master bedroom so i dont have to go up and down the stairs in the night
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  • aniticipationaniticipation

    We were told to only use liquid formula until 4 mos. That required refrigeration so we would fill bottles for the night and put them in a cooler with ice packs. Then, we would let them sit for a couple minutes in hot water until they were room temperature. This worked pretty well except whent he babies were starving and the couple of minutes seemed like forever.

     Now we use a pitcher of filtered room temp water and powder - much easier!

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  • FaeryStarGazerFaeryStarGazer member

    We only used room temp bottles too (formula fed). We had a pitcher of water up in the girls' room ready to go :)

    We were given a bottle warmer and never used it.

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  • Temp6313048411121614Temp6313048411121614 member

    IF you BF I think a warmer is WONDERFUL.  I know many people say they're a waste, that you can run the bottle under hot water, or sit it in a cup of hot water, but I didn't like those.  To run a bottle under hot water seems to take forever IMO (especially if the bottle's frozen), and to put it in a cup of water that you microwaved, doesn't work because you're essentially sticking a huge ice cube in it, it cools quickly and you have to reheat.  I like that a bottle warmer keeps the water constantly heating.

    I really like the PP idea of using a crock pot.  

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  • AlpacaBunnyAlpacaBunny member
    I agree with using room temp water if you are formula feeding.  With our formula bottles we just leave the gallons of nursery water out on the counter so they are room temp, no heating necessary!  With feeding BM bottles, we usually just heated up water in the microwave and let the bottles warm in there.  We never had a bottle warmer.  Most of the time though I just nursed them during the night in the beginning, I was really uncomfortable and engorged if I didn't do that. 
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  • mmbenchmmbench member

    We had the day and night warmers (cooler attached) where you pre-measured water to figure out how to heat the bottles.  A pain at first, but awesome in the end.  No running up and down stairs.  Quick heat-ups.

    We had four.  Two of the hot pot type for the living area, and then these for the nursery.

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