To warm baby's bottle or not?

peytonpw · March 2015

I have not found any information that supports any health benefits of warming baby's bottle. What are your thoughts or opinions on warming your baby's bottles? First time posting and FTM here. Hopefully I didn't miss a thread already over this topic.

Blergbot · March 2015

I think it's more a comfort thing, not a health benefit thing. I think they're pretty unnecessary.

peytonpw · March 2015

As do I. I want to make my baby comfortable, but I dont think she'd be very comfortable when we are somewhere where we cant warm her bottle and she won't take It another way but just didnt know if there was any other benefits that I was missing. Thanks for the feedback! @Blergbot

keifekm · March 2015

My daughter was fine not having her bottles warmed. It was so much easier and she never seemed to mind.

kjuryfl · March 2015

My daughter was breastfed primarily but on the rare occasion that she was given a bottle she preferred it warmed up. She was used to warm breast milk. Even to this day at 3.5 she likes her nightly cup of milk warm. It really depends on the baby.

Lida1182 · March 2015

We always did room temperature. Never had to worry about warming a bottle when we were out : )

lilann2011 · March 2015

If you can, get them use to room temp...it'll make your life easier especially if your doing formula. I did breast milk so I always had to warm in order to get it mixed up again and at almost 2 he is not a fan of cold milk! Lol

keifekm · March 2015

I breastfed my daughter for a year but travel quite a bit for work. DH often had to feed her pumped milk out of bottles. She never minded switching between cold bottles and breastfeeding. I suspect every baby has different preferences and tolerances.

Ndm410 · March 2015

My mom would tell you that cold milk will upset a baby's tummy. I'm not sure about all that but I think I've decided to go with room temperature as I don't think I will be breastfeeding this time. They don't warm formula up in the hospital for babies and not having to worry about warming it up later sounds like a great convenience.

Ashgal · March 2015

Neither of my boys required warmed milk/formula. Though they did prefer room temperature over cold.

taramanter · March 2015

My DD was bottle fed and I only warmed up the bottles when she was newborn and then only at night. I would never waste money on a bottle warmer though, just another unnecessary item you can do without if you have a kitchen.

AmCheri · March 2015

We warmed our daughter's bottles, but did not buy a warmer. You do not need one. We would either submerse a Lansinoh bag with BM in a mug of warm water before pouring the milk in the bottle, or we would warm the bottle itself when we used formula. For this reason, the Playtex nurser with drop-in liners is so convenient.

Mamaengen · March 2015

I think it mostly depends on the baby. I always warmed bottles because my babies seemed less fussy and gassy (which equalled more/better sleep for me and them). My first one was especially bad about it. It is more of a pain, but I never found it crazy bad (especially living in south Louisiana). I always keep bottled water in my car and I also had a thermos when they were small that i would fill with hot water before leaving the house and I would use that for bottles. My middle baby is 11 months old right now and I still warming her milk but I usually just keep one bottle in the car on a bottle warmer so that it's ready to be mixed.

Mamaengen · March 2015

Forgot to say too that neither of mine will drink much when it's room temperature, so I end up messing up their feeding schedules when I try to make them do it.

darcyalene · March 2015

We didn't warm my daughter's bottles when I was pumping. She either drank it cold from the fridge or room temp. That being said, she did have a ton of gas when she was getting the cold pumped milk so not sure if that was from the old wives tale of cold milk upsetting her tummy or something in the breast milk. We switched to formula at 3 months when I got pregnant again and now she just drinks it at room temp at 11 mo. old.

mhickey426 · March 2015

My daughter didn't like it cold. She would drink it room temp or warmed. I bought a car bottle warmer at babies r us. It's was cheap and did a great job.