How do you warm your bottles?

DS is 3 weeks old on wed. and im having a problem with warming his bottles. He is eating every 3 to 4 hours so i can never tell when to prepare the bottle he is on RTF formula. I have been filling glass with hot water and letting bottle sit inside of it but when he is hungry he is hungry and he screams!! I try to hold him off as long as i can.. just doenst seem to work. And still i dont think it takes the coldness away. Another question is when you are out in public how do you warm your bottles. TIA

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DD is the same, when she's hungry, she needs to eat immediately! I was BFing, but DD is so impatient, I started pumping and supplementing with RTF formula.
I went and got a bottle warmer, it works great, beats having the bottle sitting in a cup of hot water and listening to DD scream.

ETA: We haven't gone out yet, but I bought a box of Enfamil nurser bottles to have in the diaper bag for when we go out.

Message edited 3/3/2009 2:57:19 PM.

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I make the formula with room temperature water and then run the glass bottle filled with formula under hot water. When I am out I try to just find a place that has hot water and place the bottle in the cup with the water, but I also carry a portable bottle warmer that works great with glass bottles....it doesn't work too well with plastic.

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I used to put a bowl in our sink and run hot water. I'd take the bottle and jiggle it around in the bowl so it heats up quicker.

If you can get away with it... don't heat the bottles. It was always such a pain. Around 5 months old, we stopped heating them and he took them just fine.

what about if you leave the bottle out at room temperature like an hour before you know it's time to feed him?

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We don't warm bottles. We did for the first couple of weeks and then I read there was no nutritional/medical reason for doing this, its just a matter of preference. If your baby doesn't mind cold/room temp formula you can feed it to him that way. Mine don't care at all.

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I used the avent bottle warmer and then i had i think it was first years one upstairs in the bedroom so it was quick at night. I loved them both

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I usually don't warm them. I use room temperature water and powder formula. If I do have to warm them I put the bottle in a pot and run hot water in it.

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I was under the impression i was supposed to only give room temp bottles to make it easier on his tummy. He is constanty grunting and has a lot of gas could this be a result of me not warming them all the way?

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i pre-mix enough formula for the day, keep it in the fridge, and heat the formula for each bottle in a glass measuring cup. an 8 oz. bottle can be heated to room temp in 30 seconds. i don't make his bottles hot, he is used to room temp bottles.

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i put cold (stored) breastmilk in warm water for a few mins.

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If giving dd the RTF i just give them room temp. If I give BM that was pumped and in fridge I run bottle under hot water out of sink or fill up a cup of hot water and place inside. I keep changing the water often that way it stay hot.

My sil got a plug in teapot .. she would warm water in that and put in cup and put bottle in cup.. I used that with first dd when we went to her house.. worked quick. Never bought one b.c once we were on formula i just did room temp.

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I loved the bottle warmer. Took seconds to warm it up.

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DS was exactly the same way, Screaming! I wound up switching over to powder , no wait to warm time.

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I don't warm DD's bottles. We use powdered formula and room temp bottled water.

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First Year's Bottle Warmer - best investment that was like $18. His bottle warmed up in about a minute

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We don't heat the bottles because we don't want DD to get used to that. If she does, when we're out we don't know what we'd do.

I b/f for 6 months so it wasn't an issue then. When we switched to formula, we started using room temp water. She will never take a cold bottle, but has no reaction to room temp. This works great when we're out - we fill her bottle with filtered water and then stick that in the diaper bag. By the time we need it, its at room temp and we just mix in the formula.

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At home we use hot tap water. I haven't been out yet to try. But baby does scream sometimes waiting. No other way though.

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I warm DDs bottles in the microwave. 45 seconds and voila! I am sure people will have their comments...

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We use a bottle warmer, I prepare all the bottles ahead of time, I also use RTF formula, and I just grab it out of the refrigerator and right into the bottle warmer and it's ready in 2 minutes. When I'm out, DS eats room temperature bottles, I do not warm them and he doesn't seem to mind.

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we have a bottle warmer... the best invention was the warmer/cooling station that holds and keeps two bottles cold... very handy at night... while changing a diaper you just pop the ottle in and it is warm when you are done...

I origionally didnt give warm bottles but when ds drank you could actually hear his stomach do something... what i dont know but it sounded painful... so we started warming it... and if we go out for the day to my parents i atually bring the warmer with me instead of doing the cup method which is a pita

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Posted by twinkletoes807

I warm DDs bottles in the microwave. 45 seconds and voila! I am sure people will have their comments...

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Posted by mcl916

Posted by twinkletoes807

I warm DDs bottles in the microwave. 45 seconds and voila! I am sure people will have their comments...

I do too- for 10-15 sec though. I'm trying to get him used to cooler bottles so I can stop warming them all the time

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