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To think tommee tippee products are a bit shit?

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Summerholsdoingmyheadin · 07/09/2016 09:52

After months of people raising concerns about the tommee tippee steamer blender being unsafe and asking for it to be recalled tommee tippee have finally issued a safety recall. People were finding the blades were chopping bits of plastic off the jug presenting a choking risk due to the plastic ending up in the baby's food. Tommee tippee spent months denying that this could happen and said it was only possible if it was assembled incorrectly. Tommee tippee have now admitted that bits of plastic can break off even when used correctly and have offered replacement jugs and blades with a new design to those affected (notice they didn't offer full refunds as an Automatic right).

Independent Research has also raised concerns about the safety of the perfect prep machine (due to water temperatures and the filtered water) but tommee tippee have failed to respond to those concerns.

Aibu to think tommee tippee products are a bit shit and until they properly address all the concerns they should not be allowed to make any more electrical products?

OP posts:
PlaidMaid · 07/09/2016 11:16

Oh and also love their feeding spoons - £1 for six and would recommend them over the more expensive ones!

milkyface · 07/09/2016 13:20

Yanbu - there is no way that the pp is safe. I cringe when I see people raving about them. Germ factories

Why are they germ factories? Confused

glueandstick · 07/09/2016 13:45

The bottles are a bit shit. Was happy to bin the whole lot of them.

MolesBreathless · 07/09/2016 13:56

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twinkletash · 07/09/2016 13:58

In my experience my electric steriliser has been brilliant and so was the manual breast pump when I was using it so yabu.
As for the blender and perfect prep I haven't used so can't comment.

Braywatch · 07/09/2016 14:02

I can't comment on the blender or perfect prep machine as I haven't used them, but the hand pump and bottles have worked well so far for me and DS respectively so I think YABU.

milkyface · 07/09/2016 14:05

The article op posted makes me laugh where it says the only thing that makes it easier for parents is that you don't have to wait for the kettle to cool down.

Well it's a lot easier at 3am when your baby has woken up starving. You don't have to wait for the kettle to cool down, you don't have to burn your hand whilst shaking a bottle of red hot water, (you don't have the bottle explode on you because like an idiot you left the lid on and the pressure made it pop off and hot milk fly everywhere) you don't have to then run the bottle under the cold tap for about twenty frigging minutes to then test it and either a) realise you need to run it longer whilst your baby screams your house down or b) you've run it for too long and now it's freezing so you've got to somehow heat it up again.

It's ten times easier, it's instant.

If you clean it properly and you put the powder in immediately after the hot shot, I really don't think there's much of an issue.

I can obviously only talk from personal experience and I've used it since day 3 and my baby has not been ill (well not sickness / diarrhoea or anything related to bugs!)

allthecarbs · 07/09/2016 14:06

Yanbu.
I know so many people who had to get rid of the PP machine because it was making their babies ill. Lo and behold the babies were fine once they got rid of the machine.

MyBreadIsEggy · 07/09/2016 14:17

I've never had a problem with the electric steriliser. And the manual pump was great when I first started expressing as I only needed to pump small amounts, but it definitely wasn't hardcore enough for when I had to exclusively pump! The electric pump I found to be abysmal - hardy any suction. Luckily I didn't pay any money for it - a friend was given it as a gift but didn't bf or pump, so she gave it to me! My Dd started taking the bottles as she got a bit older, but didn't like them or any other feckin bottle for a long time!

NovemberInDailyFailLand · 07/09/2016 14:24

It seems bottlefeeding has become a minefield - you're not meant to pre-make bottles and keep in the fridge, now there is something wrong with the perfect prep machine?

I've had surgery and can't bf because of it, so I bought one ready for baby due soon. Don't know what to think any more :(

WellErrr · 07/09/2016 14:24

The trouble is, the breastapo have put so much work into their anti-formula propaganda, their noses are quite understandably out of joint that there is now a machine that make FF so easy and hence their message has lost a bit of power.

Oh stop being so fucking ridiculous.

And you can fuck off with 'breastapo' too; comparing breastfeeding mothers to the Nazi secret police is just plain offensive.

Nutellas · 07/09/2016 14:36

For those looking for info on the safety of the Perfect Prep machine:

http://www.firststepsnutrition.org/pdfs/Statementonnmakinguppformula%20safelyMarr2015final.pdf

milkyface · 07/09/2016 14:38

I can only assume the people who's babies got ill were doing something wrong because surely everyone's babies who use it would be ill?

Soubriquet · 07/09/2016 14:41

I think with everything some things are better than other

I never had a problem with their electric steraliser.

Bit of de-scaler once a month and it ran like clockwork

Champagneformyrealfriends · 07/09/2016 14:43

I've never heard of a baby being made poorly by the PP machine.

And I don't think that moles was comparing all breastfeeding mothers to the gestapo, just the militant anti formula brigade.

rallytog1 · 07/09/2016 14:43

Exactly how many people do you know whose babies got ill allthecarbs?

I know a large number of people who use it (I help run a baby group) and all their babies are fine. I know that's anecdata but it seems strange you know a large number of people who all seem to have this exact same issue which is magically resolved when they stop using the pp. Details please.

Horsegirl1 · 07/09/2016 14:46

It is not necessary to sterilise . Soap and water is just fine.rvi hospital did a big study on sterilising and concluded that sterilising is un necessary

IceBeing · 07/09/2016 14:46

milky it more like eating rice that's been left out for a while...most of the time you get away with it and then every so often you get the major shits.

It isn't that people are doing it wrong, it is that there is a very low level risk even when doing it right.

Horsegirl1 · 07/09/2016 14:47

Well err you are being un FUCKING reasonable. No need at all to bash breast feeders .

Soubriquet · 07/09/2016 14:47

In the uk, we are encouraged to steralise for at least 6 months.

Soubriquet · 07/09/2016 14:48

Re read that Horse

WellEr said nothing about breastfeeding. She bollocked someone else who said breastapo

Nutellas · 07/09/2016 14:49

Horse

RTFT (properly)

and

Sterilising absolutely IS necessary.

Blueberry234 · 07/09/2016 14:51

I fucking loved the PP machine. Water changed each feed made, filter changed as needed, no poorly baby here. Only bottles my baby would take and the microwave steriliser saw us through 2 children and is now being used again by a friend

milkyface · 07/09/2016 14:53

ice yeah I get that. There is always a risk of bugs in formula etc I suppose.

But i find it odd that one person would know several babies who got ill and then all got rid of the pp and all recovered. If it's a low level risk surely it wouldn't be making a large number of babies constantly ill. Like you say it might make a few babies ill every so often or once whilst using it, but surely not continuously unless there is a user issue?

Fwiw I don't know a single baby who has been ill from a pp, or from making bottles and sticking them in the fridge, which is something I wouldn't do.

parlezvousfrancais · 07/09/2016 14:54

I will not hear a bad word said about the PP machine Shock It has been a lifesaver! Best invention EVER! I had to do kettle made bottles for DC1 and then had the PP for DC2. OMG what a difference. DH wasn't keen ("why spend all that money when we can do it ourselves??") Then he set it up and tested it without formula and was an instant convert. Sings it's praises to all who will listen and even those who don't

I also have a TT flask thing for warming bottles, it's shit. The threading has gone on the container and we've burnt our hands more times than I care to mention. Don't like the bottles either.