Heating A Bottle
Heating a Refrigerated Bottle
There are plenty of times where time is critical and saving time reduces your stress as your baby cries for food. Depending if your feeding your baby formula, breast milk, or a combination of both …I’m listing the methods I’ve tried and the time comparison between them.
Refrigerated Bottles
Unless you’re feeding your child breast milk only, I would recommend staying away from pre-made bottles that you keep in the refrigerator. I know it sounds a little counter productive, but there is a lot of time wasted heating these bottles.
Boiling water on the stove takes a few minutes. I recommend using a small amount of water in a plastic container and heating only the water in the microwave (on high for about 1 min 20 seconds). The bottle doesn’t need to be submerged in the hot water (see above), and you’ll find that the bottle will be warm enough in about a minute or so. When compared with traditional methods this saves you about 1-2 minutes.
Formula Bottles
If you’re using formula or a combination of breast milk and formula you don’t need to waste time boiling water. What i find most effective is using the hot tap water coming out of the faucet in the following order:
- Turn on the faucet to hot water and fully on.
- Insert the milk / powdered formula mixture to the bottle (as specified on your package).
- Turn the faucet to partially on (slow the flow of water down).
- Add the water to the bottle mixture.
What you should get hot + cold = warm. It takes me about 45 seconds to prepare bottles this way.
