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0 pointsnfriend3y ago0 comments

As silly as it sounds, this water warmer for baby bottles: https://a.co/d/hhJzLBn

Nothing's worse than trying to mix the perfect water temperature at 3 AM while the baby is screaming, waking up the rest of the family. (We use pre-boiled water for the baby's bottles, so it's not as easy as adjusting a tap.) We bought this after we had our second baby and it's made feeding the baby slightly less stressful.

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a10c3y ago

I use the hot water outlet on my espresso machine. It's temperature controlled by a PID

nmfisher3y ago

Or you could do what we did, which is give the baby cold milk straight from the fridge. He didn’t seem to mind, and now won’t drink it any other way!

thatnerdyguy3y ago

Exactly what we did with all 3 of our kids. Made a few bottles up ahead of time. The last time we were at the pediatrician with our youngest (who is now 7) and told that to the nurse she was a bit aghast :)

nfriendOP3y ago

True, that's the ideal scenario! We've tried room temperature milk in the past, but our baby refuses it :(

aspyct3y ago

To be fair, I wouldn't drink room temperature milk... Hot or cold, but definitely not in-between :D

mattlondon3y ago

We have a machine that just auto boils and doses the formula water at the right temperature. You can go from zero to a bottle ready to feed in under a minute. I am sure you can get an equivalent where you are.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Tommee-Tippee-Perfect-Machine-Bla...

Highly recommended.

unit_circle3y ago

My wife and I have been using an electric kettle that can be set low (105°F) to heat bottles. It's not perfect, but it's good enough and nice not to have an extra appliance on the counter.

We use this OXO kettle:

https://www.oxo.com/categories/coffee-tea/brew/tea/adjustabl...

I did some research and testing when buying it when our last kettle died... It's thermometer is accurate, it's 1500w and I like the interface.

Hopefully this is useful to some apartment dwellers out there

mertd3y ago

We have the same one and used for the same purpose. The only complaint is I wish the temperature setting wasn't a rotary dial. Going back and forth between lukewarm (100) and coffee brewing temp (195) requires a lot of rotations which could be a few button taps.

yonaguska3y ago

I'm a big proponent of co-sleeping and breastfeeding. Of course, I'm the father, so it's less of an inconvenience for me. But much easier for mom to roll to her side and feed when the baby wakes up. We still use the bottle warmer when I'm the one caring for the baby and need to warm up some milk though.

codemac3y ago

We went with the baby brezza formula pro which mixes, warms water, and dispenses into the bottle all in one click. Worth the $, every time we travel we hate ourselves for not bringing it.

AyyWS3y ago

My wife and I used various warmers and threw them all out for microwaving water. 8oz is 30 seconds. 6oz is 22 seconds. It's easy, fast and reliable every time.

ElijahLynn3y ago

I got excited by this idea because I would like to use it for shaving gel...

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