55 out of 55 people found this review helpful.
Good for certain bottles
Date of Review: Jun 29, 2000
When I was pregnant everyone wanted to get something that would be helpful for me and my husband. This was one of the items were recommended to put on our registry and received as a gift. We looked over the information on the box and it seemed to be a wonderful product. The added features of being able to chill the bottles in the back and warming them by night-light are great!
After the shower we decided to test this product out first hand. We tried it with plastic bottles and a glass bottle a friend had given to me, both filled with formula. We also kept a bottle in the back to see if the cool compartment would actually keep a bottle cold all night.
It warmed the plastic bottle enough that the formula would be a luke-warm (or room) temperature. The plastic was also warm, but not hot. If this is what you or your baby prefer, it is wonderful. My daughter actually preferred room-temperature bottles and I know several women who used the pre-made bottles and fed them room-temperature. But it wouldn't get warm-hot, which others told us many babies liked. The formula in the glass bottle was hot-warm. But so was the glass. This outcome was very disturbing to us. The cool compartment really did keep the bottle cold all night though, something we were happy to discover.
We read in the owners manual that you could not warm disposable bottles with this product, which is what we planned on using. We did not know this before placing the item on our registry. This information was not, at that time, information placed on the box. So in the end we did return the warmer. If we were going to feed with reusable plastic bottles, we definitely would have kept this product.
**update -9/27/00- A friend of mine here in epinions (Mininut- the goddess of profile pages!) also gave me a good idea on how to use this warmer even with disposables. Fill regular plastic bottles with breast milk or formula, keep it in the cooler area at night and warm it up when needed. The difference? Well, pour the milk or formula from the plastic bottle into the disposable and presto you have a warmed disposable bottle using this warmer. The down side of doing it this way is having extra bottles to wash come the next day, but for those with a dishwasher this isn't necessarily extra washing time.
I must say though, that because of the test we did with the glass bottle I absolutely would not recommend using this product to attempt to warm baby food in jars. The glass gets too hot to handle with care.
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