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Warming bottles

preggersINschool25preggersINschool25 member
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I know that you shouldn't warm BM bottles the microwave because it kills the antibodies and create hot spots.

But if you warm it in water, how does that keep it from killing the antibodies?

If you do microwave the bottle and there are hot spots, wouldn't swirling it eliminate those hot spots?

How important is it that the bottle is warm anyways?  I mean if your baby will take it cold is that a problem?  My mom seems to think that a cold bottle isn't good for LO tummy.  Is she right?



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Re: Warming bottles

  • namara5532namara5532 member

    My DS takes cold bottles fine.  Warming the milk is more of a comfort thing for LO, but DS doesn't seem to care.  There's no harm to a baby's tummy to drink cold milk, but some babies prefer warm milk.

    Microwaves directly zap the molecules in the milk.  Putting the bottle in hot water simply warms the milk, not zap it.  If I warm a bottle, I usually just run it under hot water for a minute.  No more time than the microwave would take.  Swirling a microwaved bottle can distribute the heat, but I'd think you'd have to swirl for a few minutes to make the bottle heat uniform.  It just seems like more work than running under hot water.

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