https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:59:44 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2141930 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:48:19 +0000 LovelyPlum 2141930@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We warm bottles, but only because she won't drink it any other way. We tried, and lost. Oh well. :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2141920 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:42:39 +0000 namaste 2141920@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only do it to warm up milk from the fridge. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139853 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:29:42 +0000 birdofafeather 2139853@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my kid didn't get bottles often and i think some were warm, some room temp and some cold. just depended on if the BM was frozen, defrosted or already in a bottle in the fridge and who was giving her the bottle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139791 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:44:38 +0000 Alivoo01 2139791@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We warmed bottles for a while since DS didn't like his milk cold. It wasn't until after he turned 1 that he started taking his milk cold.</p> <p>As for cereal, we did oatmeal instead since that's what the pedi recommended. We did it for about 2 weeks before starting purees. Then another 2 weeks after that we did BLW. He took to that much better than purees. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139773 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:33:20 +0000 Mrs. J 2139773@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We breastfed and did BLW, but anyone who gave him a bottle warmed it. We had no issues transitioning to cold milk in a cup. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139745 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:17:51 +0000 BabyPenguinXO 2139745@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never made them super warm just kind of room temperature. I've heard the cold milk can irritate their bellies.</p> <p>However, I very much despise cereal in bottles. Major choking hazard. I didn't do rice cereal with my son as a first food. We later used it to thicken purée's because he was spitting up. The pediatrician also said it was a good filler for babies who are on the heavier side. It fills the belly with less calories. When babies are struggling to gain weight you want calorie dense food and cereal really isn't. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139712 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:50:42 +0000 catomd00 2139712@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Any bottles of breastmilk were warmed up a bit to room temp by submerging them in a mug of warm water. No clue when daycare stopped warming them lol not my problem! She had no issues with a transition to cold cows milk. Also no to rice cereal - we did BLW with no purées. The idea of spoon feeding never appealed to me! My husband looooves feeding dd apple sauce and yogurt even though she can do it herself. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139704 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:41:22 +0000 meredithNYC 2139704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never started with warming bottles because I didn't want my LO to develop that preference. It helped a lot when we were out and about and weren't able to warm them easily.</p> <p>Eta: even though I didn't warm bottles I still had a good sleeper. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139694 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:35:32 +0000 dolphin 2139694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do it and I don't mind at all. DD is 27 months and still prefers her whole milk warmed and it's not a big deal to me. If we're out she drinks it cold. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139684 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:30:19 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 2139684@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just say no! At 3 in the morning, no one wants to spend the extra minutes to get the bottle warm! We feed cold and our kids were both fine with that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139647 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:03:13 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2139647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: I didn't even think about the bottle before bed and I actually won a science fair project on the effects of sugar vs acid on teeth enamel. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139616 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:34:00 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 2139616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Since LO was okay with it, we gave bottles cold. It made life so much easier! But i would have warmed ten if he needed it. I think rice cereal is a totally different issue than bottle warming and having as a first food is different from adding it to bottles, which really shouldn't be done (unless the baby has reflux and you use it as a thickener). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139612 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:33:10 +0000 Anagram 2139612@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I think the major concern with bottles are babies who sleep all night sucking in a bottle in their crib--so the sugars can rot the teeth. In a lot of south Asian countries, even the doctors tell parents to keep the bottle. I guess they just brush after? My niece on DHs side just dropped her night time bottle at 3.5.</p> <p>Neither my husband not I have ever had a cavity though, so maybe we just have genetically good enamel or something, who knows. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139600 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:27:56 +0000 Mae 2139600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't understand the cultural lines thing either..? </p> <p>We never did rice cereal and we never did any food-baesd things to make our LO STTN or drop MOTN bottles. </p> <p>We do warm bottles and I hate it. We didn't start out doing it. Initially when we gave her bottles of BM from the fridge we just warmed to (approx) room temp because if we gave them cold she puked. Then we switched her to all formula and she was not a good eater at all. We had all sorts of various feeding/food refusal issues so I tried warming the bottle to warm (not room temp) and omg--- she ate! It was like a switch flipped. Before she was a crappy and inconsistent eater and it felt like we were fighting for every ounce. Once we started warming she finished almost every bottle with no issue. So we do it. But I think it is totally annoying and I would recommend anyone avoid it unless you really HAVE to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139593 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:22:36 +0000 MenagerieMama 2139593@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Ha, yes! I also use the pyrex cup to pour water over her head during bath time. So useful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139592 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:22:23 +0000 blackbird 2139592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't warm after a few weeks because it was easier on the go and in the middle of the night </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139563 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:58:53 +0000 looch 2139563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: not past 6 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139536 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:40:53 +0000 avivoca 2139536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At daycare, they warmed bottles in a cooler of hot water. She was EBF and only got bottles at home if I wasn't there to feed her, and we warmed them up in a mug of hot water. I used Playtex Nursers, and that method worked for us since we couldn't use a bottle warmer. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139532 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:39:15 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2139532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MenagerieMama: I'll have to add measuring cups to my bottle warming list!</p> <p>@Anagram: isn't that bad for their teeth like pacifiers and thumb sucking? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139523 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:37:01 +0000 snowjewelz 2139523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well I have to warm BM that's defrosted and in the fridge... And I prob make it a lil too warm but DD likes it that way! But if she's very hungry I don't think she cares. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139521 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:36:22 +0000 Mamasig 2139521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With DS1 I premade bottles of formula ahead of time and kept them in the fridge. For the 1st 3-4 months, I would take the chill off the bottle. I'd fill a cup with hot water and put the bottle in it for a couple of minutes. I quickly stopped that because I figure he could get used to it cold. As a friend told me, do you warm up whole milk? I have a nephew who at 7 still requests his milk warm. With DS2, I just gave him cold bottles right from the start. Yes, my mom and MIL thought it was weird and asked why I didn't warm the bottles (we're Hispanic). I told them why and they saw the babies didn't care. </p> <p>And I didn't follow any specific feeding guideline. I started with oatmeal, gave purées, gave my food, whatever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139509 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:32:21 +0000 MenagerieMama 2139509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO would only take warmed bottles in the beginning, now her pickiness depends on how hungry she is and will sometimes be fine with cold milk. She only takes bottles when I'm at work though. We're doing BLW and skipped rice cereal but actually bought some baby oatmeal so she can have cereal in the mornings with me, we do kind of baby led spoon feeding! It's super easy to make a small batch with BM (like a tablespoon) and it's organic and fortified. I was trying to find an oatmeal we could both eat but I like instant steel cut oats and finding that without added salt or sugar near us has been a failure so far. So far it's growing on her!</p> <p>ETA: we just warm her bottles in a Pyrex measuring cup with hot water. We don't give her enough bottles to warrant a real warmer and she'll take most of them a bit cooler now anyhow! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139488 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:23:43 +0000 Mrs. Lion 2139488@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our tap water gets really hot, so if we take a bottle out of the fridge we just fill a glass with water and set the bottle in it for a minute or two to take the chill off. The only bottle we do every day is the 1am feeding, and I just take the bottle out of the fridge when we go to bed and let it get to room temp on its own that way. DH prefers the warmer over the tap water method, but I think it is more trouble than it's worth and hate having something extra on the counter. Neither of my babies have ever needed their bottles warm, thankfully. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139483 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:18:56 +0000 autumnlove 2139483@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO 1 had a preference for very hot milk so I warmed all of her bottles. LO 2 didn't care! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139480 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:18:29 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2139480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@2littlepumpkins: you mean a coffee mug? I haven't seen that before just bottle warmers, crock pots at daycare, and stove top warming. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139478 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:18:10 +0000 Finfan 2139478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our doctor said not to start warming bottles unless we were having trouble getting DD to take them. She never seemed to have a problem and so I've never warmed a bottle. We also did BLW, starting at 6 months. Plan to do the same with baby #2 when he/she gets here in the fall. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139469 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:15:02 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2139469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I premade bottles/formula for the day and warmed it up in the warmer. I know some people think it's just as well done in a mug or something but that was not my experience. It was a lot easier once I knew exactly where to set the warmer, whereas with a mug I had to change the water a couple times before it was warm enough. If I was making a bottle on the go, it didn't need to be warmed. And obviously if it was breastmilk I warmed it but that was short lived. I went with whatever lo drank best. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139458 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:09:40 +0000 lawbee11 2139458@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She only got bottles at day care since we BF at home. I think they warmed them slightly (like to room temp). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139455 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:04:09 +0000 Foodnerd81 2139455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't do that many bottles (bf from the tap) so when she did have a bottle it was usually previously frozen milk. So yeah, we warmed it from frozen, but didn't make it very warm. She never had rice cereal and we did blw. Asfar as cultural... I'm white and American. Does that make a difference? I feel like it's just something our moms and grandmas say about the rice cereal to sleep through the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-take-on-bottle-warming#post-2139444 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 07:55:32 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2139444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: did you BF at any time too? My friend BF and pumped. A warmed bottle definitely kept the baby feedings consistent.</p> <p>@travellingbee: IDK, that was weird. We're both minorities. </p>