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I warmed all of my son's bottles to body temperature as per the recommendation of the nurses in the hospital. It didn't add that much time to the feeding process.

Hmm what cultural lines? I didn't warm bottles (but I also early gave him one since I was BFing) but I think at day care they did. And we did purées and BLW and no rice cereal.

I'm curious about the cultural lines, too. About bottles in general--in my husband's culture, they give bottles until a child is 3-4 years old. I keep telling my husband that LO should not have any bottles, ever at this age... But it doesn't help my case when the Indian family across the hall is out and about with their 3 year old holding a bottle.

And yes--warmed!

She only got bottles at day care since we BF at home. I think they warmed them slightly (like to room temp).

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.

LO 1 had a preference for very hot milk so I warmed all of her bottles. LO 2 didn't care!

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!

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!

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.

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.

I didn't warm after a few weeks because it was easier on the go and in the middle of the night

I don't understand the cultural lines thing either..?

We never did rice cereal and we never did any food-baesd things to make our LO STTN or drop MOTN bottles.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Eta: even though I didn't warm bottles I still had a good sleeper.

I never made them super warm just kind of room temperature. I've heard the cold milk can irritate their bellies.

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.

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.

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.

I only do it to warm up milk from the fridge.