[KatieHeitman]

Did any one use a bottle warmer to warm up the baby bottles? I suppose with formula you can just use warm water from the tap. But with pumped breastmilk, I think most babies like warm milk. How did you warm it up? Just let it sit in hot water from the tap? Or use a bottle warmer?

I had a bottle warmer with my first, but didn't use it because I used the drop-in's. But now that I have a baby I'm watching for my Daycare, I'm considering getting a bottle warmer again. It takes a long time to heat up the bottle in hot tap water, and I have to refill it a few times with fresh hot water. Is a bottle warmer really better and faster? Opinions please.

[sunshyne57]

We've always used a bottle warmer. I found it annoying to warm up in a cup or whatever. It only takes a couple of minutes in the warmer, and once you figure out the correct amount of water to use in it, it's fabulous.

[Irish_Wristwatch]

we used a bottle warmer for Ross until he was about 7-8 months old and then he preferred to have his bottles cold. I still use it occasionally when DH feeds Will, ours takes about 4 minutes to get the bottle warm enough

[krislati]

We used a baby bottle warmer when using breast milk. When we switched to formula we just used room temp water. That is the way he prefered his bottles.

[Jeanie915]

We used bottle warmers with Hallie. She took bm up til 7 months and I warmed all of those. Then used warm tap water for formula. I also used a car bottle warmer.

[krsnow]

I have always used a bottle warmer and I still do now for my LO's milk. Like Sunshyne57 said, once you figure out the exact amount of water needed then it's easy and quick. The only thing I don't like about mine is that the inside gets dirty with black residue, I don't know why because I have never put anything else in there except water, so it must be from the steam settling or something. If I clean it, it gets dirty by the next day.