Mam steriliser/warmer and breast feeding

[Leadust92]

Hi all,

After some advice please. My baby is due in a week and we just bought the Mam steriliser and food/bottle warmer. I'm wanting to breast feed and then express so my husband can feed her. Looking at the instructions, it says to gentle heat breast milk and gives you a time for however much milk you have, but then says 15 mins cool basically.. just wondered if anyone had used it like I want to as I'm thinking 15 mins plus warming time is a long time with a hungry baby.
Thank you.

[dementedpixie]

Why would you heat it and then cool it again? What do the instructions say?

[Leadust92]

Maybe I'm just reading or understanding it wrong. It says for example a 50-60 ml bottle, Manual turn off time 2.5 min then waiting time after turn off 15 min.
The machine does have a keep warm feature so unless that means after you've stopped it after the appropriate time manually for how much milk you have, it will keep it warm for a further 15 mins if needed. The instructions just aren't very easy to understand.

[Leadust92]

Unless it means 2.5 mins to get to temperature for that specific amount of milk and then 15 mins to actually warm through maybe..

[dementedpixie]

From googling the instructions I think you are right about it being the keep warm function

[dementedpixie]

So if you heat a volume under 140mls you have to manually stop the machine at the given time and then you can leave it at the warmed up temperature for 15 minutes afterwards.

[dementedpixie]

Or I might be wrong. Might be easier sitting the bottle in a jug of hot water tbh

[dementedpixie]

bottle warmers are generally crap btw

[dementedpixie]

I think you might be right now I've looked at other bottles warmers. Takes a few minutes to heat the water then 15 minutes to warm the milk. This is why people end up using microwaves!

[Leadust92]

That's what I thought! Seems a long time to wait when you have a crying, hungry baby, maybe I'll just stick to warming in a jug of hot water!
Thank you for taking the time to look and reply. Glad it's not just me that finds the instructions confusing!

[Lockdownseperation]

If you have a healthy full term baby then don’t need to sterilise bottles if you are using breast milk.

[Leadust92]

I don’t mean to sterilise the milk I just mean to warm it if it’s been expressed and left in the fridge, the bottles will be sterilised separately and then filled with breast milk, then the milk warmed.

[Lockdownseperation]

If you are using breast milk then bottles don’t need to be sterilised, just washed well in hot water.